Controlling movement video

Can Classical Tai Chi Square Form Improve Movement Control? 

It means an unwanted movement that follows uncontrollably after a conscious move. For example, imagine touching and then trying to "stick" to a person's solar plexus with 4 of your fingertips. Still, you end up activating your thumb, which simultaneously makes a fist instead, messing up your "sticking." Remember, you wanted to "follow" the opponent, not hit them with your fist.  

Master Hwa uses the image of sweeping an opponent's leg with yours. If there is another movement in the rest of the body, the sweeping leg loses power as it is drained off. You thought you would "swear" the rest of the body did not move...but it does. The brain needs training on zeroing in the neural signal to ALL junctions.

 Here we have the logical choice of Square Form, where 1000+ movements teach the student to keep integrity in all the Yin/Yang junctions of movement. Yes, the more "robotic", the better because it emphasizes all the small junctions and the large ones of the Yin/Yang pairing. 

The unwanted movement of the thumb is in the brain, not the hand. Master Stephen Hwa's quote: "Most untrained people make moves instinctively...Most beginners cannot keep their neural signals focused on a narrow segment of their body...unintended movement...sloppy movement...".

The unwanted neural activation in the part of the brain that controls the four fingers spreads inappropriately to the amount that holds all fingers and thumb because there is no appropriate inhibition. The hard part of getting better at Classical Tai Chi Form, Sparring, Push hands, or any other form of movement is simply gaining the ability to control unwanted neural activation.