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Hi Jerry, [David J] Do we have a copy of the Ten Wings from Confucius' time or earlier? No, we don't. And conclusions, based upon much later versions, are conjecture. [Jerry] The problem is the theory that there was an earlier version of the 10 wings which was 'translated' into a later Chinese langu...

Michael,

I'd be pleased to hear your wide-awake version, then.

David J

Hi Michael,

I read your post before you removed it. I may try to address your question soon.

Regards,

David

Greeting Louis, I appreciate your responses, but I think there's misunderstanding here. I will try to clairfy. You wrote, > For example, the evidence for the Ten Wings as being an ?added layer? on the core Zhouyi text is philological, and has been fairly widely agreed upon for some years. < I agree ...

Are we allowed to Monkey around this year? :^)

The winter rest is ended and things are beginning to stir in preparation for Spring. May the next year be the best you've ever had.

Happy New year.

David J

Greetings Louis, Considering the implications of numerous homonyms I thought that it might be interesting to have a translation of Zhouyi in Cockney rhyming slang. Suppose you were a scholar having a good copy of Zhouyi. You get wind that there will be book burning. You look for a way to preserve th...

Hi Jerry, I don't know the name of this move: when the slice comes from near the floor (point down, edge forward), it moves forward and upward, the blade's edge facing upward, it then sweeps up, and left, and down, and forward, now, point down, blade's edge facing forward. Though the path is some di...

Hi Jerry > Yeah, I don't mean it would be impossible if your palm faced in from a high position to rotate it out as it went down. < This description is easily reversed. I was going by Fu Zhongwen's description. We're talking about the possibilities starting from the hand overhead rotated out then ro...

Greetings Louis, > Since the right palm is already rotated outward in the ending posture of White Crane Displays Wings, how could it rotate further outward in the rollback transition to the following posture? < If you go by Fu's instruction that's rotated in, with the arm bones crossed over, simply ...

Greetings Jerry, > By rollback I don't mean the move in grasp the birds tail but one of the eight jing. Notice how I said 'generally'? < OK. You meant the gate not the specific technique. I thought the principle jin Lu was a lateral rotation. The downward jin is part of "An." > By the way ...

Greetings Louis, I decided to go parody by parody: If he was writing about glasses he might have written, "How can they correct vision as is claimed?" "All that these lenses do is make things look a different size that what they really are. They are inert and do nothing." Page 51...

Hi Jerry,

You wrote, > Warding off involves going up and rotating outward (generally). Rolling back involves going downward and rotating inward (generally). <

Fu Zhongwen specifically mentions that Rollback that the hands do not go downward, and to do so is a mistake.

David J

Greetings Audi, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: <B>Greetings all, > David, you stated that you were ?taught how to adjust the form to compensate for a left-handed...

Hi Guys, I once saw a chi gung demonstration where the "master" put on demonstrations which, apparently unknown to him, employed deceptive tricks that are well-known at circuses and carnivals in the USA. Concerning the pushes on videos at www.searchcentertaichi.com In slow motion in http:/...

Greetings Luois, I expressed some objections to Rutt?s writing in parodies of arguments he has advanced, to save me the effort of going through it laboriously bit by bit. And I thought you would like the parodies. I just spent a few hours writing out specific objections, and decided that I really di...