Presenter: Chen Zhonghua Length: 68 mins Difficulty: 3/5 Language: English
Year: 2023 Location: Edmonton, Canada
Scott Folsom has been studying by himself for 6 years. This is the first official class for Scott. We worked on the positive circle in terms of half-horse stance, hand/arm position, in-with-elbow, turn-with-kua, out-with-hand.
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Positive and negative circle corrections.
Corrections to my Stance:
My feet and toes most point straightforward on a straight line and then I step the front foot forward an angle it at 45° out.
My front knee must be located directly above my heel. And I get there by keeping my body straight up and down, and the whole body moves out as one piece until my knee is over my heel.
Back leg knee: without moving my foot, my back knee goes up and out to stretch open a kua.
Shoulders are on the line or parallel to the line that I drew on the floor; am I hips are on that same line like a square?
Kelvin had me focus on, not turning my shoulders towards my hand, so the shoulders are perpendicular to a straight line in front of me. My head can turn, but not my body.
With my front arm, straight out in line with my thigh and toes is where I do the circle.
My palm points to the floor, my elbow points to the floor I focus on a dot on that line and slide my hand in a straight line and words by retracting the elbow to the ribs.
Then my way starts to turn with my oboe here to my ribs the waist tries to turn on a flat plane just above my glutes, shoulders, don’t move only the waist. Then the hand stretches back out to the original position.
Negative circle: same stance as positive circle arm out like starting point or ending point position.
Palm facing down, elbow, facing down, the hand pulls in on the line with the leg and doesn’t go off it and contacts the ribs and turn at the waist. The hand goes down and around in the bottom, half of a circle back out to the starting point with the middle finger, still pointing at that point.
And practice practice practice.