Toronto workshop 8 March 2020 Morning session notes

Then one must learn, create yin yang split

Action has movement, physical structure has no movement

Hand and screwdriver analogy —

Screwdriver doesn’t work on its own but is turned by hand

i.e.

Twisting towel

Hand doesn’t move on it’s own,

Kua is responsible for action on hand

Technically

object is yin &

Action is yang –

Fixed for consistency and to avoid confusion

At higher level it doesn’t matter which one is which, just know there are two and can be switched

There has to be a trap to walk in for opponent

Trap doesn’t change shape/size

Trap is designed so that you can have the hold

Hold gives access to ligaments and not muscles, working on muscles is futile

Opponent’s arm is not sufficient to get the hold of the whole body

Body parts are irrelevant for the hold,only think of to hold the line, have a grab from both side of teh line and not just one

Drill-

Sink waist to press elbow

Hand should be complete dead no move on its own, and that is quality like a steel, otherwise it absorbs like cotton

Shoulder rotates on vertical axis and doesn’t get displaced

Only two ways to move opponent .

Lever- lock middle and move the ends (strong opponent)

Anti-lever – lock the ends and move the middle (loose opponent)

Two ends and the middle are independent of one another. However opponent thinks they all happen at same time because the difference in time is so tiny it goes unnoticed.

A nut (micro living that lives only morning to afternoon) can not fathom a qun (mythical bird that lives many years) and for qun a nut did not exist, however they both live same life cycle birth-growing-reproduction-death.

Taiji encapsulates everything – in time.

If one splits that fraction of second when action was done at two ends and middle into million parts, these three actions will be only 3 of those million parts and totally different (although sequential) and they have no relationship to one another but for opponent it feels as if they happened at same time and they have relationship.