Most Important: Nobody can see, what Chen Laoshi is doing (except Chen Xu), when he is throwing a stone in the water and waves are appearing, everyone is asking, how to make such waves (form of the waves, etc.), but he just throws the stone- first 13 moves: shovel out, waist cannot go forward, has to be zero, only can go down, to push out
- shovel out means to bypass
- your opponent is strong in different dimensions, you always wrapping around him
- all forward moves you have to lock yourself down
- movements must be led by the piece were I and you don`t touch, move as one piece, like one wall going at you, which part is leading is very different
- to suck: evenly energy distribution: put ten pounds in ten places, appears like little power; you can use any body part as a contacting point, your energy has to go through this contacting point to every part of your opponents body
- shun and ni: shun = must be on it (the line) and turn; ni means you are not on it, you are against the line
- everything has to go through one spot = everything spins towards one spot
- you cannot see the rotation, when it`s round
- action is deviation, if there is no deviation, you cannot detect anything
- never put your opponent in danger (= taiji principle), either of you will fall very gracefully, but if there is danger, something really bad is going to happen
- forearm has to become longer
- warping (not sure about this word) = becoming longer; warping = outside is controlled, no movement, inside becomes bigger and has no way to go, then there appears a change of size but no change of time, causes you to believe there is time
- threshold cannot move
- movements have to halves, exactly the same, but opposite directions
- saying: don`t fight opponent, you swallow him in and spit him out from the stomach → image shows there is a circle
- inside has to be supported
- sealing = take space out (as you get closer, you have to seal)
- in taiji you never reach out
- position: 49 % (front foot), 51 % (rear foot) → feel strong at the front, not strong at the back → we are all opposite
- don`t change angle, like snow-shovel
- arm has to be one piece
- everything has to be totally proportionally coordinated
- we have to expand (joints)
- rules for wrist: wrist must not exist, has to become no joint, joints are two pieces, no joint is one piece
- in taiji: we assume body is a mess, too many things, body has too many pieces in disorder
- never put power on a joint
- “pushing” must be backward loading, like bow and arrow
- to root: you can root on anything in any position
- push hands: every move must be used for something, everything is useful, have to become like water, wrapping around opponent; movements like steel moving like water
Berlin Workshop 2016 – first notes
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