Taste of Death wrote:wayne hansen wrote:I get you now but even if double weighted surely he can just remove his arm
That's why the teacher laughs. It's a weird feeling to not be able to let go. It's always fun when someone experiences it for the first time. When the teacher has him like that he can't push off to right himself. The teacher is giving him no place to land. That's where the softness of the torso and arms traps him. Like the bird in the hand unable to fly away. It's trapped. But unlike that this is not a trick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnPir2zQSXU
He can not remove is arm because he is part of the teacher at this point in a demo setting showing a skill.
How this might be applied as some have mentioned is another kind of training...
Similar explanations with clips showing it in use in "demo" settings showing the same types of reactions.
Whether its useful, true, or not depends on the focus of ones practice.
To gain the skill might be a time investment that not many are willing to make, the skill itself may not fit into
ones own approaches or practice. I like teacher Chin's explanations concerning the 3 points. yin/yang/neutral point.
there is a force in physics called "restoring force" which might help to explain why a person sticks or can not remove their arm or body part affected.
I use this along with others in my own explanations of similar demos, finding it seems to cover the same ideas and is a little more clear for those I work with.
What happens, happens at the point of contact....