Yep. You could do them just a little bit solo, but then start drilling alongside hand movements as soon as possible.
All the single action kicking drills also have hand movements that accompany them.
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wayne hansen wrote:Climb I have a background in tang shou Tao which is based on Gao so yes I do
The first thing I learned back in 73 was walking up and down the hall with no arm action
If your stance was tardy you got 20 knuckle push-ups
I thank my teacher for that training
I also was taught bongs stuff by bob Caputo who trained with his teacher in Korea
I posted the clip I did to lead you to his page where there is a lot of good stuff
yes I guess there’s a lot of field down under, up in the livable northern hemisphere there’s fields of ice, however they also play with sticks on floors, in sweden it’s called ‘innebandy’ in English they call it ‘floorball’. When I trained Taiji in Sweden we used to play floorball as warm up our Chinese teacher thought it was so fun we played for an hour or more before we jumped to Taiji/wushu practicewayne hansen wrote:When people say hockey I think field hockey now that is defiantly grounded
D_Glenn wrote:An important rule to follow in Yin Style Bagua is to never practice stepping without also doing something with your hands. Keep your Intention (Yi) above your waist.
It’s like how a basketball player always has to be dribbling the ball in order to move, or else he’ll get called for ‘traveling’.
Basketball players have great footwork skills because they’re also subconsciously keeping their Intent above their waist.
Skilled footwork in fighting needs to be controlled by what’s called the ‘Xindi’ (mind-ground). Not by your ‘xin-yi’ (mind intent).
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Climb-up wrote:johnwang wrote:Climb-up wrote:I’m also not clear about the great amounts of distance. I’ve seen plenty of CMA that happens very close in, and Bagua specifically does so much in a distance too close for the opponent to attack.
Any footwork that can generate moment to run your opponent down is good footwork.
The footwork in your clip is good.
Is generating forward momentum to run an openly down generally considered good Bagua?
I generally think of subtle footwork that takes the opponent off balance and ideally cuts the corner and flanks them before they notice. Even in the applications of the linear palms that’s primarily what I see.
I’m just beginning, maybe I’m wrong.
Btw, I’m not knocking the idea of running people down; I remember working on the JKD ‘straight blast’ (and a variation using alternating steps and crosses by a JKD guy who’s name I can’t remember). Def good stuff once you’ve made contact and unbalanced with the first shot. Just a different approach to how I conceptualize Bagua.
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