Trick wrote: I have everything from just touched hand to sparred, never once have I been made to jump up or fly back in the air by a mere touch...maybe I’ve already have my six directional power naturally in place my body ? But I do have felt some interesting things but nothing miraculous .
I've never been pushed away by "a mere touch". Rather most of those pushes that threw me far away or made me a willingness hopper felt very solid, sometimes quite painful, like my whole ribcage was pressed in or was going to burst.
But back to yours seminar story there where New students in the seminar, in other word peoples who didn’t need to act as “typical person”...those where the guys who should have a first hand feel. But instead an experienced(you) student was used for the demonstration(a simple arm grab),one who could play along, switching mood of “typical person” to a masterful one. There’s a big risk here that the new students observing this kind of play might begin to play games too and not being natural about it.
Wholeheartedly agree. The only reason I've spent money on most (of the few) seminars I paid for was not to learn new things, but to feel the teachers touch first hand. Nothing will teach you more than to just feel someone skilled practitioner's sense of lightness/heaviness, structure, peng, balance, tingjin, timing etc. Just five minutes of private time with a really good teacher, just feeling his (or her) touch, can teach you more and much more important things than hundreds of hours learning new forms and dozens of other solo exercises.
To not letting a new student feel those "master's" touch first hand is to rob the whole value of attending a seminar from the students.