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2022.09.04 悉尼笔记锺百豪 (英文) Sydney Notes by Brian Chung (English)

1. Boiling point. At 98 degrees, the water is still water. We have to go past the threshold.
2. Learning is breaking the pattern. This is very rare.
3. Look for the pattern in human behaviour and make notes.
4. In promotion, the order is photos, videos, writing.

1. We never lose power. We only change structure.
2. The curvature never existed (Six Sealing Four Closing).
3. Two sticks on a rail. Everything is stiff. The setup makes it look smooth.
4. Master held my forearm and touched a dot on my chest in Six Sealing Four Closing. Stretch back against the front hand.
5. Six Sealing Four Closing with power. Master said power was on my chest. He pointed to use the dantian.
6. I held Master’s thigh. It did not move.
7. Hong’s number one characteristic is a half pipe with the back on the wall.
8. Pushing Exercise. (1) Touch the chest. (2) Fix the elbows. Stretch the fingers. Forearm is 45 degrees forward. (3) Rear foot in. Opponent is on the edge. (4) Then move the feet. This is a snow plow (blade 45 degrees, vehicle is straight). The trajectory of the contact is an arch. Continue the track the opponent with your hands (Example is of a tiger tracking prey jumping up and landing down on it).
9. Snow plow. Master asked me to explain the main points. Do not change the structure. Do not deviate. Our human nature is to deviate on what we see.
10. We must find a method to motivate us.
11. Step up exercise. Action of the front foot. The front pulls the rear. Every push is a pull.
12. Intention is fine tuning the angles to adjust longer.
13. Exercise. Pinch forearm. Master showed how to catch the entire body, allowing him to walk in.

1. Master showed his forearm while I held onto his wrist. He said he is actually pulling the ligaments inside.
2. Inside of the glass cup. Hong told Master Chen he was wrong as he was touching the outside. The inside eventually relates to the core. The outside is unrelated. The inside is about the restriction.

1. Exercise. Line up front hand and rear elbow touching the the wall.
2. Exercise. Rear foot line up with dantian. Hold the compression. Step forwards.
3. Block Touching Coat application. (1) Intercept punch (2) Pull to your left side (3) Seven inch knife on throat (4) Catch neck (5) Stay on neck and push out.
4. Four Corners Exercise. Get stuck. Turn the waist.
5. Hand elbow exercise. Touch the wrist and elbow. Hand must always touch the elbow. We have to reverse our normal habit. Line up and pull the elbows in.
6. Horizontal Rod exercise with James Strider pushing us. The rod is the point of reference. This allows the body to be very calm. Without it we always stumble.
7. Five flowers. Four circles intersecting one middle. Watch the video again on Hunyuan.
8. Bu liu shui. Not moving water. Master demonstrated this. The fist stopped on my chest. Power went through. I tried it, Master said I am too stiff.
9. Talk about Jing Qi Shen.

1. Story of Liu Yang challenge.
2. Story of Sun Yang challenge.
3. Normal power is based on movement. We create power without moving. To fight someone strong, do not allow them to move.
4. Pieces of information can be taught. Do not try to combine them. It will happen automatically.
5. We need new ideas to conduct real Taiji research. Example, photo analysis from western science practitioners.
6. Story of Hong’s photos.

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2022.09.05 悉尼笔记锺百豪 (英文) Sydney Notes by Brian Chung (English)

1. Bicycle chain. We all have one extra piece.
2. Normally our shoulder is out. We have to totally change the body until it all fits.
3. There is only one move. It is so tight, it only moves as a conveyor belt.
4. Bie. Knee, calf, toes. Toes grip, knee back. Calf erect. I need to work on this.
5. Exercise. Touch the wall.
6. My rear foot was moving. Master put his foot against mine. Only hand on the wall and rear foot are solid. Middle is empty.
7. Touching the wall timing exercise. Horizontal and vertical.
8. I was pushing the wall with my left palm and rear foot. Shifu touched my left ribs and left thigh and stretched them out.
9. The unbendable arm. This is Peng. Exercise. Partner pulls down on your elbow. Stretch the two ends (front hand and shoulder).
10. Going over exercise. Long stick on the two arms. Lock the body as one piece. Stretch the two ends. Fix a dot on your chest in the middle. Go over it.
11. Master let me feel what stretching the rear is. This is a rotation. Not a push.

1. Vertical is length. Horizontal is width.
2. Power is on the vertical.
3. Story about Zhang Lian En.
4. I asked Master how to bie the knife, I need three dots. If I draw a diagram, there are only two. Where is the third? He said write an article about this.
5. The third is created. It is very elusive. The action is two separate trajectories meeting at the middle.

1. Master was holding my wrist. Pull the elbow in. Crunch dantian. Connect elbow to dantian. Connect both to front heel. Get this feeling. Only work on the three dots.
2. Pulling exercise after fist draping over body. Engage. Squeeze down to waist. Connect R arm to L kua. Here must be there. Lift L heel. Open L knee straight to L foot and L kua. L kua has a total vertical restriction. This causes a rotation and the L heel to grind out.

1. There is a switch of side on the fingers in closing the first move.
2. No Chou. No pulling (to pull the shoulder up).
3. Six Sealing Four Closing. Front elbow and front kua can open or close. It must be one or the other.
4. Turn Left to Pound Mortar. Kick from the right heel to cause the waist to turn. It must spin like a top.
5. Brush the Knee. Turn over a dot in the middle of the chest. We must continue to expand.
6. Master showed the rotation on brush the knee. Slide. As you rotate, the chest goes down. The correct feeling is nothing to hold onto.
7. When I rotate, there is no surface.

1. We repeated the learnings at the Chinese online class.
2. Use a stick to go over. Forward backward, left right, up down.
3. Unbendable arm.
4. Pie Shen Chui.
5. Discussion with Kelvin. He is very clear.