cudos for the clip.
a lot of things depend on a view point, its nice to see
a view point.
Steve Rowe wrote:I had a similar conversation with a kickboxer, I asked him how he fought with his skipping rope.
It's a basic drill. It teaches receiving skills and the value of a circle. You learn how to 'hide your bones', how to stick, follow and redirect. How not to lean backward but soften the back knee, how to pass from leg to leg, how to circle the waist, how to soften the chest. Bring in the other arm and you learn when to apply peng, lu, ji and aun in the destructive cycle. It's a very versatile drill. You can run all the locks off it using the opponents energy.
It's just one very versatile basic drill...
nice
I think its hard to feel what "momentum" is apart from the body itself, acting on and through the body.
PH helps in the process of understanding and feeling this by "doing"
Hiding ones bones, allows the inner momentum to be used directly and felt directly
if ones practiced is geared towards this type of understanding. "doing"
The idea and use of timing, meaning the timing of the intent of action and the action itself
allows one to start late and yet arrive first. One can not move late after the movement has started and
expect to arrive first.
If one can feel the others "intent" to move, and move before the movement manifest
in this way reaching or preempting the intended end point and arriving first, this allows for very
free and live movement practice using the PH medium.