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肩和膝管上下。
肘管上身。
胸中间管中线。
胯管左右。
功夫 – 指哪打哪。要一个部位动，就只有这一个部位动。
功夫 – 对方预测不到的。超出了自然。
两种难：
要进步：强逼（不做就罚你）、自愿（给引诱的）、被欺骗的（自己不知道）
We need to pass it on. We can’t worry about who can really do it or not.
Passing it on means the receiver remembers what you said, and can repeat the saying.
Story Telling
We use stories to pass on information.
Plains of Abraham: This battle was won by British army. From here, Britian eventually gain control of North America when French Revolution took place, and France gave up North America.
Wuji is there is nothing within an area. You draw a circle to mark an area. Wuji is having a restriction.
1+4 = 2+3 = 5 + 0 = 1.1 + 3.9 Wuji is saything that the sum needs to be 5.
Taiji is to say from 0 to 5.
To say 10, it’s because there are 5 on each side.
Yi (intent) is based on a real experience. Yi is not plain imagination without real experience.
We want the core to control the movements, so we can see the limbs but not the dantian itself. Training: Kick with heel as an exercise.
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Lever: one side goes down, but it actually needs to move, so the pivot keeps moving backward within the rod.
Book exercise: Not allowing the book to fall down with your hand and opponent’s hand on it. One person pushs and pulls, the opponent matches the action with the elbow, shoulder, kua, feet.
Leader in 3-count circle
Six Sealing Four Closing: While the two knees are going up and down, they are restricted within a cylinder.
First step in the first move:
After the right turn, my left hand is on the opponent’s elbow not moving, while my right hand holds the opponent’s wrist. Lock my outside, shrink the distance between my right elbow and right kua. This is to fali 发力.
3-count positive circle:
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One of the actions of taiji is to scoop/carve. It is like when you use a spoon to pick up soft/jello-like yogurt. You can put the spoon on the surface and rotate under it to pick up what the spoon can hold. By tossing it in the yogurt will on disturb and destroy the yogurt.
A static version of this is a half-pipe/concave circle. When an object hits it, the object will travel on it and return.
In this video clip, Master Chen Zhonghua shows how to lock the rear kua as the stable support while moving the front kua. This will create a trajectory that will return the opponent’s oncoming force.
Chinese version/中文版：https://www.zhenbudong.cn/archives/144877
Elbow In-Chen Zhonghua Online 20210915. This is a clip from Chen Zhonghua’s Sept. 15, 2021 online lesson. Read more
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GM Hong Junsheng clearly stated that the body height is adjusted by the knee moving up and down. However, this has been very difficult to understand, to do and to use in applications.
In this short video clip, Master Chen Zhonghua shows how it is achieved.
Chinese version/中文版：https://www.zhenbudong.cn/archives/144946
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Fixed two dots are static power. Add one more dot between the two is dynamic power. As long as you can stretch this third dot against the fixed two dots, you have power, e.g.
Master Chen explained the difference in the following: 开步、合步、跟步、开脚。
Size of the two gears determines the direction of the resulting power.
Dao – Everything exists as it is. There is no right or wrong. The sequence matters. An individual piece is fine as it is. If you disrupt the flow (the sequence), it becomes problematic.
Elbow (in), Kua (rotate), Hand,(out). It is wrong when the sequence is messed up.
