[quote="edededed"]Because I have always admired the Wu style, I have started trying to learn the slow form (based on Ma Yueliang's line). Since I've never learned Wu style, and have as a background only a bit of Yang, with lots of bagua and xingyi, I would appreciate any hints or tips that may help. For example:
- How soft is soft? In bagua, for example, you are actually more taut than soft.
- Any tips for intention, qi, whatever?
- Anything else
This is how I practice it. As soft as possible but need to be balanced equally with extension. (This is built on a foundation of maintaining sound body alignment principles.) Gradually if you can up the softness and relaxation, you also need to up the extension to balance that. The result is over time, there is an elasticity in the form.
Have fun! Conversely, I am doing the same with Baguazhang, trying to work these things out. =P