Appledog wrote:the heel rising up is not an internal technique ...
oragami_itto wrote:This has gotten ridiculous.
Do a proper brush knee with both hands, weight shifts, and turns. Compare what that feels like to what Matt is doing in his video. Or even just do the part with the cross side moving forward, but keep the whole body involved.
Do they feel the same? Even remotely similar? To me they feel drastically different, posturally and energetically, no question about it.
Which isn't to say what Matt's doing isn't valid or isn't found within the body of taijiquan, just that I don't think Brush Knee and Twist Step in any way or part expresses it.
And then you talk of lifting heels? How much of a thing can you change and still call it that thing? Why bother when there may be more accurate terms? Double weighting isn't just a physical phenomenon.
wayne hansen wrote:Everything is a variation of ward off,Roll back,press or withdraw and push
oragami_itto wrote:This has gotten ridiculous. . . .
And then you talk of lifting heels? How much of a thing can you change and still call it that thing?
Appledog wrote: If you are lifting up the heel during BKTS you are doing it wrong. I know this always sounds contentious when I break in like this but this isn't an opinion, it's a fact-- and yes I understand what you mean by it being biomechanically required. Nevertheless, and I find this fascinating, where this opinion on Tai Chi about lifting up the heel came from, since it is just wrong.
Compare (a) https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/7c/d6 ... 90820f.jpg and (b) http://www.shouyuliang.com/images/newsl ... 1/a5p1.jpg -- note the position of the heel. This is the same basic technique executed in two extremely different ways. . . .
What is being talked about here with the heel rising up is not an internal technique and is being promoted out of the fear that the real way does not "really work". If the "internal" way "really works" then you should not need to lift your heel up off the ground to gain speed, momentum or reach.
johnwang wrote:Nobody has answered my question yet.
When you use brush knee, if your opponent moves back, your bow-arrow stance brush knee cannot hit him, but your monkey (unicorn) stance brush knee can. Will you slide in your back foot with heel up into monkey (unicorn) stance?
You have already borrowed the counter force from the ground through the back leg. The power is in your momentum. Your back foot no longer need to be on the ground. When the bullet flies out of the gun, the contact between the bullet and the gun is no longer needed.
You have already borrowed the counter force from the ground through the back leg. The power is in your momentum. Your back foot no longer need to be on the ground. When the bullet flies out of the gun, the contact between the bullet and the gun is no longer needed.
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