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(But how is your partner going to practice?) I always tell others when pushing it doesn’t matter much what they do, only to recognize it for what it is, not what one thinks it is. Force is force nothing wrong with using it, if that’s what one wants to do. If the other can not handle it, then they ca...

(Who do you believe?) Its not a question of belief, it’s a question of experience and skill. Understanding is relative to experience, things that are to far out of ones own will either not believed or understood. On the net I have noticed, that some how people asking for advice or experiences of oth...

(Just as surely as extreme softness will lead to extreme hardness, so the total understanding of yourself will lead to the ability for you to totally understand your opponent.) I find statements like this to be somewhat confusing. Softness never leads to hardness unless it is softness with out aware...

(o i met a problem, if people attack, i am not worry about it. However ,if people did not attack, do as i want to do, how to deal with?Especially for the stronger peron like weight lifter,alought i follow the reaction of his movement,and i was empty,if he did not attack me initially,i was unable to ...

(use his hardness to neutralize me with patience, how to attack him ?) if he was able to use his hardness it means that you also are really hard or full once you can really empty then you can move in with out him being able to feel this there is a point where the mind intent is even more important t...

(I would say strictly from my own experience that taiji works more on `roujin' (yin) where yiquan more on `kangjin' (yang).) I would say this is kind of a mistake or maybe misunderstanding. Taiji is neither yin nor yang it is both one never leaves the other. Things that are in perfect balance have a...

(I find the reality of yiquan to be excellent when compared to push hands since alot of tai chi people do not do push hands, and if they do, they believe in soft overcoming hard (literally as opposed to metaphor or allegory). It is literally at lest in my own experience. Its just that many really ar...

(Perhaps, someone who is more familiar with their teaching can do so.) the basic idea is to train the shen, by looking at a focus point that is where the body will be. First in mind, meaning the mind has the thought, the eyes lead it. The rest of body adjust to this. The training is for this, is not...

(May I ask you a question, have you ever pushed with a person who can use short jin, i.e. he slowly touches you, and then immediately either your bone or whole body feels the impact. What do you think, is it possible to reflect such an attack back in the manner as you described above?) as with many ...

(their constant juggernaughting-in, I will have little change to push them out of the competition ring.) your thoughts have lots of good examples my replies are not directed at you. http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/wink.gif The idea of pushing them out, try leading or allowing them to fall out. B...

(instead be focus on what you can do to him".) forget this advice its very wrong, the idea is to give up thoughts of oneself and follow the other. From this comes correct positioning and timing. What you want is your mind not to be focused on either yourself or him, like a hawk circling a rabbi...

(will loss because if I kept on being soft and refused to collide and use considerable amount of strength to overpower their constant juggernaughting-in, I will have little change to push them out of the competition ring.) this is because you have no idea of return, and they are not skilled enough t...

so have i

Or you sense a threat in which case its better not to practice with some like this.) an example, in pushing with someone it was apparent that anger and ego started to enter into the practice (this with some one I had just met) rather then continue pushing I suggested we take a brake. Many don¡¯t see...

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ah well another time




[This message has been edited by bamboo leaf (edited 05-16-2005).]