Ancient Humans walked with weight back on Savanna

Video link to safe walking

Look at the picture of the Savanna. My teacher Master Stephen Hwa has said early humans had to walk very carefully with their weight back, not letting gravity pull the body forward in order to cope with such unstable ground in the night as well as day. If you are walking with weight back you are not pushing so much with the back foot as you are pulling with the front. With such pulling, the core will engage by default.  This is not entirely correct and it is easy to hurt the legs this way. In Classical Tai Che we use the core to engage the legs. In this Youtube video link above, Master Stephen Hwa teaches you how to Tai Chi walk and use Tai Chi walk for everyday walking, how to engage the core, keep weight back, etc.

Your practice is "a drop in the bucket"

1st student, slouching in a chair: "I've been practicing 3 days a week and my balance has not improved". 2nd student leaning against the wall: "So have I, and I am frustrated by the teacher's corrections in class". The teacher overhears and says: "Did you ever see Master Stephen Hwa's Facebook picture of the Dad who is doing terrible things to his knees while he shows his child something"? "You both know the idiom "drop in the bucket",?  Your 3 x a week practice is just that. Let me clarify in the spirit of the idiom that the big problem is not with how many "days" but with how many hours because you have to practice all day". 1st student: " I can't practice all day, I have to go to work". Teacher: "I'm not talking "formal practice", I'm talking about what my own teacher Master Stephen Hwa calls "offline practice", which is not just doing "internal work", or "Form" but more importantly becoming AWARE 24/7 of what your body is DOING/NOT DOING. It's rather futile and absurd to ask for "benefits of Tai Chi" and still insist the only time you are AWARE is doing the Tai Chi Form or internal exercises"

Fajin's pragmatic philosophy of not getting knocked backward

Video link to Fajin effects


Note Master Hwa's perpendicular stance to Tom's leaning. Without superb ability to "tense and instant relax" how else do you think Master Hwa does not get knocked back because of Newton's 3rd law? A student made a very insightful comment about the true pragmatic nature of "tension and relaxation" saying: "Most excellent explanation! Thank you! And too, if we could only apply this principle to everything we do in our life - to every movement to every thought to every emotion, life would flow much easier." and Master Hwa replied: Excellent!! You have grasped the philosophy in this practice"