Tai gong:
- Sing (rise)
- Balance in centerline
- Relax
- Intention
- Keep the shape
- Focus on spine
- Rise
- Help partner by going on outside of circle. Help them with their shape
Punching drills:
- Continual punching – see below for variations:
- Counterstrike
- Punch
- Grab
- Tan sau emitting from chest
- Bong and then tan sau – bong is opponents opposite hand (mirror hands – yours left against opponents right)
- Single and double
- Wu sau
- Chik sau
- palm
- fook
- Chik sau
- Punch
- Counterstrike on outside
- Counterstrike on inside
- Double counterstrike on inside and outside
- Punch and latch with punching hand.
- Punch, latch with punching hand, punch, latch with punching hand and end with hook (shin) kick.
- Punch, latch with punching hand and hook kick simultaneously.
- Pivoting whilst doing these movements
Drills
- Counterstrike and punch
- Punch in and punch
- Punch in and latch (a pull away is included in the latch technique) – think of sphere inside and push opponent away at a tangent.
- Side palm strike and then punch with other hand. Use pivot to see if you can use spine. Arms and spine have to be connected.
- Project a triangle. Pivot depending on amount of incoming force.
- Project (make) a triangle. Do bong sau depending on force. Roll force upwards
Legs
- Pivot spine and kick with knee
- Block and kick with one leg – hook kick
- Hook kick and then chum kui kick (hook kick with other leg but same direction)
- Kick by putting your mass on the thing or person. Maintain your spine.
- Heel kick is one movement. It’s not a push. Kick. I shouldn’t have to step.
Types of kicks:
- Five kicks:
- – hook, chum kui, side kick (reverse chum kui), heel kick, and shin kick (leg thrown up vertically). Do this in combinations.
- – Check stance, balance, structure after stepping and kicking. Focus should be on spine. Not on leg or target.
- – Test tan, fook and bong sau with pressure. Pressure of pulling and pushing. Push the chest. Push the back. See if there is balance and structure. Your back is the triangle. If must be flat and relaxed.
- Always pivot around your axis. Make kicks and punches originate from the mass.
- Find balance through Tai gong and sing.
Welsh guys
- Lap sau means pulling
- Jut sau is jerking
- During chi sau, when my arm has bong sau, left hand goes up and right hand goes down. Then strike with right hand – left hand covers. Then do lap sau with right hand and punch with left.
- Do SNT fast for testing out whether you can stay in the state of rising or not.
- I feel the rising and falling now. Falling is to keep you structured whilst rising is to get you to use mind state. In slow SNT, you are able to test movements and rising and falling.
- Tai gong is necessary for rising. There can be falling without Tai gong but not rising. This I have tried.
- Spin or keep joints active. Align lower half with upper one. Merge them. Spin or activate joints and combine them. Make sure spine is straight – pure centerline.
- Internal energy takes time. Don’t rush it. Don’t crave it. Bottom of spine is bit tense. Stand up straighter and relaxxx.
Notes of Saturday – 29/10/2016
During chi sau – or whenever – no one should be able to take your balance. Tai gong to rise to back of head. It feels like fireworks in the back of the mind. Expand this feeling to all of your body parts. It is akin to water seeping into all parts of the body amidst the blockage (tension).
Test this by standing on one foot and doing Tai gong, singing and SNT. Another test is to walk normally. Walk through. Do not lean or brace or anticipate walking through. Do Tai gong and rising and walk through whatever it is you wish to walk through. Yet another test is to keep Tai gong and rising on amidst the pushing or pulling in your form.
Removing thoughts in the mind – by focusing on the back of the mind or spine – is akin to emptying a park full of birds. As more birds fly away, the less thoughts remain. The goal is to empty the park of all birds.
Sing and then relax. Keep doing this. Keep remembering to do it. Shoulder goes in back. It will try and come up and in the front but keep making it relax back. That is its natural path.
Everything is one but needs to be broken down to get a better understanding. If you are perfectly balanced, meaning perfectly in sync with your centerline, then you should relax much more quickly.
Body has to get used to trusting centerline.
Tai gong needs to be initiated. Rising does not happen either without or through relaxation ALONE. Relaxation is necessary but so is the initiation.