everything wrote:
Almost all sports do this. As I often say. Taijiquan grasp sparrow's tail basic exercise does seem to help. Here is a double weighting that I want to cause. No touch force!
Sure, like I said this concept isn't the only path to the skill. This is just the one I know a tiny bit about.
That no-touch force there is exactly what I was talking about in a boxing context. If you can get them going left when they should be going right and position yourself so that it is very awkward and difficult for them to reach you, that's a kind of double-weighting that takes advantage of momentum. Stumbling, stuttering, apparent clumsiness, etc.
johnwang wrote:oragami_itto wrote:It's hard to induce it in yourself because you really need some outside force to see/feel the effect.
If double weighted can only happen from your opponent's attack, should you spend your training time to learn how to counter his attack so he won't put you in such situation?
Why yes, that's a great idea. I call that Taijiquan.
The idea is that proper application of this theory in particular is both a counter attack and evasion.
If you consider the opponent's attacking hand or foot or shoulder or knee, etc, as a substantial body segment, then when it makes contact with your body, you should make that part insubstantial to prevent the force from affecting your body.
Whether that means moving it out the way through turning or stepping or bending, etc, or through more subtle internal adjustments that allow you to capture and redirect the force, it's still all part of the same principle.
And as mentioned above it doesn't only happen from an attack, you need outside force to feel it. Gravity is sufficient, but the greater the force the more obvious it becomes.
When your opponent's attack put you in double weighted (unable to change), it's not your double weighed problem, it's the problem that you can't counter your opponent's attack.
Yes the "problem" is obviously you can't counter or evade at that point. The error of double weighting might be one way to describe the CAUSE of that problem. Understanding it, detecting it, correcting it, and avoiding it are skills you develop.