Does the word "opponent" no longer have any meaning?

[shawnsegler]

That was lovely.

S

[DeusTrismegistus]

I like the discussions on technique and practical usage but the language barrier is hard to overcome. Perhaps someone who does programming could make something that we could attach to the site to help. Like a frame with 2 movable stick figures that we could use to illustrate a sequence of events. Move them into position, take a snapshot and post as a pic or link. I imagine that would take a lot of effort for someone though.

I find it difficult to learn solo forms without an understanding of what the movements are supposed to be doing. I think some misinformation gets into martial arts that way as well. A student learns a form without being taught how the movements would be used for combat and tries to later figure out what something could be for and sometimes a posture may simply be an "on guard" but they think it has to be some cool move and make something crazy up.

[klonk]

I like the discussions on technique and practical usage but the language barrier is hard to overcome. Perhaps someone who does programming could make something that we could attach to the site to help. Like a frame with 2 movable stick figures that we could use to illustrate a sequence of events. Move them into position, take a snapshot and post as a pic or link. I imagine that would take a lot of effort for someone though.

I've been fooling with this freeware program lately:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivot_Stickfigure_Animator

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/stickfigure.html

It's a little weird in some places, not as intutitive as it might be, but it works! Turns out animated gif and snapshot bmp files.

I hope to post some things once I get them right...

Once you have the animation or picture, you need a place on the net to host it, and then you can post a link here. Oughta work.

[johnwang]

If you train the throwing arts, your Shenfa and footwork will be different depending on whether your visualized opponent is moving in toward you, or you are moving into your visualized opponent. In the 1st case you will use the "stealing step". In the 2nd case you will use the "cover step". For the same hip throw, the training method will be different.

If you train the striking arts, your Shenfa and footwork will be different depending on whether your visualized opponent is punching at you, or you are punching at your visualized opponent. In the 1st case you will need to deflect your opponent's punch. In the 2nd case you may not need to.