Sarah

Helly everybody,

here my notes of our class today. There was no title, so I would name it: Sequence to complete an action.

Step 1

– is totally free; there is no system

– ex.: go upstairs: one can step with the left foot our right foot first, any position thinkable

– taiji example: making contact with the hand, however and wherever

– learning this step normally takes 3 years

Step 2

– is free, as long as step no. 1 is not affected

– ex.: foot on the steps has to stay, cannot move anymore, but how you are getting the rest of the body on the stairs too, is totally free

– taiji ex.: you can move every point of the body, to come in as long as no. 1 is not moving

– learning this step normally takes 10 years

Step 3

– is free, as long as the centre of no. 2 is not destroyed

– centre can be everywhere

– centre results from size, weight, angles, speed, power etc.

– to learn this step takes normally 30 years

Chen Laoshi: “You have to put this into your yilu”, what for me is very difficult, as I am not sure about the no. 2 in every position, before going to the next one. I hope this knowledge will come to me 😉

Today I realised, why I like (our) Taiji that much. We had class (Patrick, John and me), Chén Xù was teaching. He showed us twisting the towel. Push the left foot and then don`t move (one point on the right side of the body), push the right foot, don`t move (one point on the left side of the body). This is the same principle Chen Laoshi explained in this video . When I heard Chén Xù`s explanation, I thought, that this is so illogical. Because, if you lock the right side and turn the left, and then lock the left side – there where you are – and turn the right, in the end you are moving forward. Although I saw Chén Xù doing it, believing his explanation, my mind said: How??? That`s not logical.

Just for joking I asked him about my worries and he said, don`t care about it!

This for me is the challenge and attraction. I always loved maths but practical method is more complicate! It seems to be so logical and scientific, but then very often, for me it makes no sense at all 🙂

Here are some notes of a “Dinner-Lecture“, it was funny to re-listen 😉

• if you can rotate your shoulder, the power from your body will transmit to your hand; many people fight tough but they have no power, because power comes from the ground, by connecting soledly on to the ground → this is upper body solution
• when the qua is open, your upper body will connect to the ground, if you can not connect to the ground your power is a superficial power
• saying: a piece of wood can stand 1000 pounds but if it`s cricket, it cannot stand anything
• you need to be straight, straight basically meens there is no deviation with the incoming force
• Read more

Step two in the learning process (following the observation) is “to copy”. Here on DQS the chinese guys nearly all do the positive circle like Chen Laoshi is doing them in his yilu from 2013. I was used to pull the elbow in as much as possible and changed that, after the observation, that they all are doing it differently. Some days ago, Chen Laoshi corrected my positive circle and I had to pull the elbow far more in.

The question for me is not, if the chinese guys are doing it right or wrong, because the outer appearance is variable uppon your level (as I understand), the question is HOW TO KNOW, WHAT TO COPY?

My conclusion is for now, not to copy anyone, except Chen Laoshi.

The problem is, that it was said, that we also have to learn from each other, but perhaps that is more related to pushand- and drillsituations.

What do you think?

Hello everyone,

after the birth of my son I like to begin slowly to practise again. But the midwife said, that I have to avoid any type of sport for the next 6 – 8 weeks. Any force which affect the pelvic floor should be avoided (lifting thinks for instance). But I think, that doing the yilu hasn`t any affection on the pelvic floor at all. But being not sure, I like to have your estimation.

Thanks a lot

Sarah