Re: Stop going for the big push!!
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2021 7:07 pm
Hey Trip, fwiw, I used to attend Alex Dong's seminars in NYC --on Lafayette St. The style is distinctive.
Anyway, afa the video, there's never been a tjq vid that satisfies 50% of the tjq community. The things I would note are 1) there aren't many useless movements before he executes. 2) Yeah, I guess you could say that he was doing Grasp Bird's Tail, but GBT is inherent in most hand techniques. I mean, it's the basis. 3) What's more important to the execution is that he steps diagonally to the side --and the step, imo, is necessary. 4) Unlike "push" or the An in the form, he executes with one hand. Granted, An or a push/shove can be done with one hand.
That relates somewhat to uprooting, or the particularly CMC technique of "pushing" an opponent upward. The thing is, in CMC style, uprooting is done using both hands. More importantly, the power does not come from the hands or arms at all. It can't. The power comes from sinking and then rising. You have to be below the opponent's center of mass. Well, ymmv. Secondly, CMC uproots using the "Press" - or Ward-off slantingly upward-- position as often as not. Note the differences in this vid I just found. PS. I'm not defending or offending, just pointing something out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSYPOhSgiis
Anyway, afa the video, there's never been a tjq vid that satisfies 50% of the tjq community. The things I would note are 1) there aren't many useless movements before he executes. 2) Yeah, I guess you could say that he was doing Grasp Bird's Tail, but GBT is inherent in most hand techniques. I mean, it's the basis. 3) What's more important to the execution is that he steps diagonally to the side --and the step, imo, is necessary. 4) Unlike "push" or the An in the form, he executes with one hand. Granted, An or a push/shove can be done with one hand.
That relates somewhat to uprooting, or the particularly CMC technique of "pushing" an opponent upward. The thing is, in CMC style, uprooting is done using both hands. More importantly, the power does not come from the hands or arms at all. It can't. The power comes from sinking and then rising. You have to be below the opponent's center of mass. Well, ymmv. Secondly, CMC uproots using the "Press" - or Ward-off slantingly upward-- position as often as not. Note the differences in this vid I just found. PS. I'm not defending or offending, just pointing something out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSYPOhSgiis