- 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
