Strange wrote:I enjoyed that
Would like to know the application for No. 6
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Me too! But in case we do not get an answer from anyone who actually knows, I will offer my conjecture.
It is a maneuver to recover your spear if it gets stuck. Ribs and so forth. Upward leverage, rearward traction. Physics of the carrying pole.
I also have a humorous explanation, but these days everyone is so artificially sensitive to being
triggered by imaginary offenses against cultural sensitivity, pretending outrage, that I hesitate to mention it.
I define internal martial art as unusual muscle recruitment and leave it at that. If my definition is incomplete, at least it is correct so far as it goes.