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Play tennis like "grasping a peacock's tail"
Stephen Hwa:
"I
was a tennis player from a very young age. My game
started
going downhill when I was approaching forty
years
of age. That was when I started to learn Tai Chi.
As
I was beginning to master the Internal Discipline in
my
Tai Chi Form practice in my fifties, my tennis game
started
to improve rapidly. It eventually reached a level
way
beyond my younger years. Take some specific
moves
as examples: I did not learn the proper technique
to
volley at the net when I was young. Later, I found my
upper
quarter-body push move is exactly the correct
move
for a volley, described by tennis pros as a "punch"
move.
The body turning move in "Grasp Peacock's Tail"
greatly
improved my two-handed backhand. Overall,
my
moves were much more natural, powerful and I had
a
faster response on the court, as if I had rebuilt myself
from
ground up into an entirely different person with
physical
and mental abilities beyond my youthful years."
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