Connect students arm to core for seniors mp4

Connect a students arm to core for seniors mp4

Something to mull over: As in this video, what happens when we have to think about how to connect our arm to our core...even with someone stretching it out? What happens to "Muscle Memory"? In Classical Tai Chi it is a "yes and no" because it is not ever definitive. Sometimes it's "yes", sometimes it is "no". When Katharine Craster's Centipede was asked about his "muscle memory" by a Toad: A centipede was happy – quite! Until a toad in fun Said, "Pray, which leg moves after which?" This raised her doubts to such a pitch, She fell exhausted in the ditch Not knowing how to run.
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TAI CHI SQUARE & ROUND FORM MASTER STEPHEN HWA

TAI CHI SQUARE & ROUND FORM MASTER STEPHEN HWA

In Tai Chi there is talk of seeking straight from curved, curved from straight. Many people say Classical Tai Chi Square form is “robotic”, my teacher says “the more robotic the better”…it gives us a plethora of straight lines and delineates what parts of the body move and don't move. Everyone thinks that Tai Chi's movements should always be round and smooth I talked to my teacher Master Stephen Hwa about the Calculus, straight lines, and curves in Tai Chi…he said “you are on the right track”. BTW Master Hwa was the scientist at Xerox that others came to when they had Math problems. Anyway, if I want to draw a curve I might start with a few points. Let’s say I put points on a paper and name each N, S, E, W, N, NE, NW, etc. So I have all those points (directions). Now I connect N to NE to E to SE to S, etc. with straight lines. Once I have the lines I can draw curved lines between the points. In The Classical Tai Chi Square form, there are many straight lines, and angles. Where the movement ends is the end of a straight line but if you have visualized what I say then the end of the lines, those points are tangential to the curve, and those points, changes in direction are where internal energy is released. Indeed there are other folks Tai Chi that says they do Square Form. What they don't say is they do Square Form in a Small, Mid, or Large Frame. Classical Tai Chi does square in a Small, Compact, and Tight Compact Frame. It is essential for the plethora of small, compact, and tight compact curved movements of the Round Form that use internal movement from the torso.
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Do not mix Internal and External in arm mp4

Do not mix Internal and External in arm mp4

Master Stephen Hwa with “Single Whip” and moves with no extraneous movement! Its all “Internal”!

One cannot do "internal" and external at the same time in any part of the body, arms, legs etc. In this video you see arms stretching or being stretched and then internal being used or vice versa. Watching Master Hwa's arm stretch when pulled is "yielding" then "fajin" when opponent crimps up their arms and you are close to their chest. If you are going to "ting" jin and "follow" the opponents movement then use stretched or one might say "external" movement. Actually in push hands you can do one then do the other but the two cannot operate at the same time. In this event, one would have to setup the parameters for external (elbow and arm not directly in front of centerline and more toward lateral sides of body) to successfully be able to extend the arm fully and easily once more. Among arm, shoulder, and core, it is often difficult to tell which part is leading or following. It is best to always keep the shoulder passive as a follower. But the arm, the elbow, or the finger, filled with “yi”, may sometimes give the sensation of leading the movement. The synergistic effects between core movement and engagement of arm and core give unexpected results. When I try the engagement exercise on students new to my class, it seems to help them to learn how to make the core move.
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