GrahamB wrote:Is this you, Rhen?
wayne hansen wrote:Sorry Bao don't quite get what you mean there
. I don't really care about how other people practice, but I am trying to find ways to teach some types of techniques and applications in a different way than I learned them, while still maintaining the principle and essence of the methods. I myself am not exactly sure where to draw the line between, or combine, important basic practice as in the OP together with different methods to better understand and develop a sense of timing and controlling distance and angle.
windwalker wrote:For most practices they start “after” the lowest level but never seem to work up to the higher levels remaining kind of stuck. as you say drawing wrong conclusions from their practices.
co-lee wrote:As Ben Lo would often say "relax is not collapse". And based on the videos of CMC teaching push hands where he steps in after someone successfully yields or successfully pushes saying "no, not right. too collapsed or too stiff", I suspect he would have objected to this kind of yielding that takes one directly into a troubled position.
wayne hansen wrote:I teach the pushes as a series of punches to be practiced separately with the hands used in a specific order
Only 1 and 7 done with the right hand
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