Doc Stier wrote:It may be insightful to some practitioners of the Yang, Wu and Chen styles to focus on the rear hand when performing Single Whip, like the Wu Hao and Sun styles do, envisioning the hooked hand executing a quick, flexible whipping strike with the back of the wrist, as one example, rather than always focusing on the open front hand. This creates an entirely different energy dynamic which can be very interesting.
If your hand was holding a weapon you wouldn’t be able to swing it in a small circle close to your body like this.
D_Glenn wrote:In my post I put the timestamp
“Dan Bian at 5:30” means Single Whip [applications] at five minutes and thirty seconds is roughly the point where you will want to skip to in order to see what I was referring to.
D_Glenn wrote:OTT- There is an idea has existed in the Chinese Martial Art community for hundreds and hundreds of years- it’s that the Ultimate Martial Arts form would be an art where every movement in the form would contain both the attack or offensive movement and simultaneously contain the countermove against that attack.
I think the peculiarity of Chen Taijiquan and strict manner in which it’s handed down is because it almost has that.
That’s why they named it the Grand Ultimate
it’s that the Ultimate Martial Arts form would be an art where every movement in the form would contain both the attack or offensive movement and simultaneously contain the countermove against that attack.
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