rojcewiczj wrote:Lately, I have come to see my movements as either a push or a pull. Pushing away from the center and pulling towards the center, the center axis becomes the demarcation for changing the force.
Whole-body power is produced without any strange method, when the acting limb or body part is pushing from the center or pulling towards the center. It is so simple, pushing and pulling relative to a center. I have particularly enjoyed using resistance rubber bands to practice this principle. One finds that their is no special wave or wiggle, turn or twist, which will pull or push a rubber cord to your maximum, only lining up and pulling/pushing strait will do it. Again, so simple that I have spent years running around it. Now I find myself throwing my pushing hands partner effortlessly after breaking their balance with a strong pull towards my center, then I turn my waist and they are flung away. A strong strait and simple pull can sever balance instantly! The more my pull is lined up with my center axis the better, the actions become strong and simple like a bow. Pushing and pulling, The force is entirely linear, while the turn of the waist has no need for force.
rojcewiczj wrote:Lately, I have come to see my movements as either a push or a pull. Pushing away from the center and pulling towards the center, the center axis becomes the demarcation for changing the force.
rojcewiczj wrote:my body has become a simple machine, but it can do its job.
Trip wrote:But, say you just want to focus on push or pull.
Then, push and pull happen simultaneously no matter what direction you’re applying in.
For instance, if you’re applying standard Yang style rollback:
Left hand might slightly pull to the diagonal rear. While at the same time,
right hand-pushes out (sequentially up then down) to the front diagonal left.
[The sequential up down is like rotating (arcing) over the top of a round object. Kind of like a car tire rotating from the front into a left turn.]
Taiji is not just simple machine movements.
It uses Complex Machine movements.
i.e., Taiji movements consist of two or more simple machine movements working as one.
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