Chris McKinley wrote:jjy,
Great posts! I have one technical question for you. After you have made contact with his incoming left punch with your right forearm, you said you drill clockwise with your right forearm. Are you drilling clockwise backward (so as to connect with his center and pull him off-balance to your right side) before you return fire, or are you drilling clockwise forward (so as to blend with his incoming punch trajectory and roll his punching arm further under your own while your right punch simultaneously counter-fires)? Both can work is why I ask.
jjy5016 wrote:"gravitational pull of Xing I", I like that. But with a good strong frame and luo xuan jing (spiraling, or silk reeling force) it works without gravity as in upwards and sidewards. This is a specialty of hsing yi. Grasping onto a point and controlling the situation from there.
Even if the opponent feels the weight and removes his arm he still gets hit. That's the beauty of the method.
jjy5016 wrote:Chris McKinley wrote:jjy,
Great posts! I have one technical question for you. After you have made contact with his incoming left punch with your right forearm, you said you drill clockwise with your right forearm. Are you drilling clockwise backward (so as to connect with his center and pull him off-balance to your right side) before you return fire, or are you drilling clockwise forward (so as to blend with his incoming punch trajectory and roll his punching arm further under your own while your right punch simultaneously counter-fires)? Both can work is why I ask.
In this instance it would be the latter. My body will be following the left lead foot so it will be rotating counterclockwise as it pulls forward onto the front foot and the right forearm drills clockwise.
I think the key to making IMA applications realistic is to not rely on a large dictionary of "if he does this, I do that" rules, but to learn how to solve a large range of problems with a single technique. This way the multiple "if he does this" are reduced from totally different situations to just being different timings or angles of your movement, and the fun thing is: you don't need to know/choose the correct timing for that particular attack, the timing is just when it intersects with your movement.
This way techniques become a lot more automatic and non-conscious.
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