This is a nine “9” minute video with transcription below of a small part of the entire video above.
Taking a look at the video and transcript for this Blog,Master Hwa says :
“Let's first examine the Belt Buckle Position. Notice that when I make a turn, pay attention to the position of the belt buckle here. When I make a turn to the left, my belt buckle position turns to the right. If I'm going right, the belt buckle position shifted to the left. So the twist is right over in this position. So, again, I'm using the abdominal and back muscles to create this twist movement in the core.
As you can see, the situation is much more complex than what the video reveals. Secondly, the core muscle, especially in the abdominal area, comprises a complex arrangement of muscles that work together to control movement in various directions. There is no way a teacher could tell you how to use a specific set, and you will not be able to segment your muscles into different pairs and control them.
Therefore, the teacher cannot teach you, and you will not be able to control it; thus, there's no way for you to learn by starting from the internal muscle area. The only way to learn internal discipline is from the outside in. So, let me explain what 'outside in' means.
You learn external movements, know them correctly and precisely, and have the body posture or skeletal structure in place, so you practice them that way day in and day out.
Gradually, your non-responsive and dull core part of the muscle starts to respond to the external movements. Gradually, it will fall into the right track with the external movements. Eventually, the internal movements and external movements become unified into one. Because a teacher can teach you the external movements correctly, and you can try to do them correctly. Although this often takes a long time because people have bad habits, they cannot perform the movements correctly. Due to their previous poor habits or posture, they struggle to maintain correct body posture.
So, that's usually quite time-consuming for many people to correct their earlier habits so they can performexternal movements with the proper body posture, but at least it is teachable. You could learn from it becauseit's all these external things you can understand, and that is precisely how all the masters teach internal discipline.
That is how master Wu Chien Chuan taught my teacher, Young Wabu. Young Wabu taught me in that way, using the square form and the round form. Now, let's take a quick look at the square form. Historically, the square form was taught only to the inner circle of students who were groomed to be the heir to the master's martial art dynasty. These students were typically the master's family members and a select few outsiders who served as apprentices to the master.
There are several reasons that the square form was not taught to the general student body. Indeed, one of the time constraints is the availability of both the teacher and the student, as learning the square form is very time-consuming; it is also a severe test of the student's perseverance and aptitude.
Square Form Criticism: Many taiji practitioners criticize this form of square form as too precise, mechanical, and robotic. Yes, it is, and we need that for many reasons, but especially for training internal discipline. You require that because your training initially reveals your core body as unresponsive to your demands. It is dull, it's not very sensitive. Consider how you train a dog. Your training method must be precise and repeatable for you. If you have a wishy-washy training routine, you are never training the dog to the checks, so you have to be exact here. Instructions must be accurate and repeatable.
Let's take a look at an example of how we train walking in Taiji. Taking a step involves using internal power to move forward, which in turn enables us to take another step. Walking: Example-you bend your knee, lift the foot forward, and put down the heel without the body moving forward, while the body still stays back.
Now, drop the toe by tilting the pelvis. Otherwise, if you don't tilt your pelvis, your body will shift forward when you drop your toe. So drop the toe, and the body stays back. Now you use the core muscle while pulling on the front foot. When the front foot bends, you bring the body forward. Now, you can see this movement; it's the internal core muscles in action. Most students have the bad habit of their bodies shifting forward when they put their foot down. If your body has already moved forward, you don't need to use the internal core.
The other one is pushing with the leg instead of pulling and using the core. Instead of pulling on the front foot, students push with the back leg slightly. Even a slight push, and you are not utilizing the core muscle. You are using the leg muscles to push the body, and that's an external movement. You have to use the internal core, and you cannot push. These are the bad habits that may already exist when students come to learn, and it is tough to correct. So, in the small circle square form, we use the external movements to induce the internal movement to train the internal movement.”
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