There’s never a right or wrong, there is only relevance
Direction – is the dao
Structure, alignment – mundane
Direction lines up – alignment
Align and lock
Lock – need a 90 degree angle, a floor
Initiation into taiji state – 开拳 – to make it the core
Double heavy – parallel 井 locked
送开 – open (universal action) split 分开 pull open 拉开 (level 3) rotate so it opens 转开
Hammer and nail, at the end it must go straight into the nail
The opponent touches the barrel and the power shoots out into them. Don’t move the barrel, the power is the differential between the touch not moving and the power (tip of the finger)
Deboning – separation between skin and the stretch.
Rivet on the hands
Chicken exercise – rivet the hands, the power is at the tip of the elbow. Stretch, down with elbow, up with kua. Kua hits the elbow.
Jingang dao dui
1- elbow and kua, chicken exercise
2- left elbow and back of right kua pull to dantian. Then rotate when solid.
3- don’t move dantian and pull in foot.
4- poke; heel and elbow hit stretch away from each other. Don’t move dantian.
5- as you shift to left foot, rotate don’t move hands,
Show you short give you long. Grip and lever
Tapping to create reaction but not overcommitting. Soft – hit
On the shirt – only enough to peel off the shirt
Zhuo – handle
Example: picking up a cup
Something that will create an opposite, a resistance. Creates a hold on the object. Adherence, sticky, traction, friction.
Bie is only one of the possible actions
Hook, handle
Chan – wrap (spiral) until it is held
Look for universal applicability
