bailu wrote:What is "internal power"?
A quote from Bodywork a while back sums it up what his feels like somewhat accurately:
"Another way to look at it is a washing machine agitator. If I welded a peg though a steel rod (that is the agitator) and told you to hold onto the peg with a hand on either side, and I told you the “motor” was a 1000 horsepower engine, and to “hold on tight” and I turned it on...what would happen? Well, when you got out of the hospital you would say “wow” some kind of power. Then, we could weld little steel arms to the pegs and put gloves on them, then have you stand in front of it again, and I turn on the motor….when you get out of the hospital, I will ask you to grab the arms of the agitator and try to "throw it." When yu get out of the hopsital, I will ask...
Did the agitator rod ever "lose its balance?"
Did it need to "transfer weight from side to side?"
Wasn’t the forward motion of one side of the peg balanced by the opposite side?
When you tried to maniplate one side to throw, what happened to the balance of the "other side?"
My teacher, for lack of a better description feels a bit like a combination of a tank mated with dual helix coiling longbows firing lances at you. Its nothing like any force I encountered fighting people that did Judo, Muay Thai, or San Da, be it on impact or trying to affect the body of the individual that has the skill.