GrahamB wrote: The only way striking with that hand formation would make sense is if you were striking upwards with the hard top of the wrist - yet that's not the movement in the form...
GrahamB wrote:Single whip (Yang style) is one of those applications that I've never been happy with anybody's interpretation of the form movements. Their 'applications' never seem to actually work like the form does.
GrahamB wrote:If anybody has a video of them doing single whip application that actually works like their form I'd like to see it and be proved wrong - that would be great!
AllanF wrote:.
In regard to escaping a lock, you don't need to 'break out' of a lock. As it is being applied you channel the force down into your dan tian (chan si jin, silk reeling) then return it to the opponent (fa li) then turn it over (fan) locks are al lot easier to escape than most understand.
Walk the Torque wrote:
I have just got to get a goddam camera!
I used to do it with only three fingers touching and he offered the following advice "This is Taiji, not badly done Praying Mantis".
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