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If anyone can stand any more on this: "... When mobilization reaches its peak there is movement, and when sensation reaches its peak there is awareness. Movement and awareness are easy, but mobilization and sensation are difficult. By first seeking to develop conscious movement in yourself and ...

Ok. Is it just me, or are all these guys in need of a good dusting off?

I received this article from an interested party. This is the complete article from Li I-Yu, not just parts of it. It says what I tried to say earlier about knowing yourself through PH's practice, only much better than I ever could have hoped to. ESSENTIALS OF THE PRACTICE OF THE FORM AND PUSH-HANDS...

Audi, I guess I've always considered Right Ward Off to be a sort of smaller version of Left Ward Off, smaller in area of execution rather than overall movement. The "splitting" I was speaking of is the idea that one arm is lifting up, warding off, the other is pushing down, energy moving i...

Can do.
Thanks, I will work on this.

Bob

Jerry, What about Right Ward off? Is the torso leaning forward or upright in Right Ward Off? I have watched MYJ's DVD, quite a few times in fact, over this weekend in an attempt to find which position my torso should be in for Right Ward Off, but it does not seem to be clear. He very clearly speaks ...

Jerry, Ah! I knew I had seen something about this in one of my books from the Yang family. I have, however, been concentrating so much on the DVD I had not yet taken the time to dig into my books and research it out. Much and many thanks. I'm VERY glad I wasn't too far off on that concept. I'd have ...

Thanks, guys. I didn't want to keep on using these terms and find out later there was allready something. Jerry, There is at least one more place where the bow stance is, momentarily, upright than in the three you mention. In Turn Body Chop With Fist it appears from the DVD that the "chop"...

I have used this experiment before, but was not at that time conscious of the Yang family approach to holding in the chest. I haven't done this in quite some time, and not in this same way with the same results. I feel badly about your getting a headache from something I suggested. Again, I feel no ...

Psal, I have NO idea why you would have gotten a headache, and I apologize for the experience. I don't get a headache from this, rather the opposite, I feel quite light and well after, pretty much just like doing the long form. All I was going for was the feeling I get, which is a clearer understand...

Psal, That's what I was going for. Glad I could get you going. I, too, cannot distinguish if this "hollow" under my armpits correlates with a "ball of energy". I can't imagine that they are not connected, but I've been wrong before. Here's something else to try while you're tryin...

Louis, Your short post went a far way to making my long winded ramblings unecessary. Had I read your post before I made mine, I would not have bothered! It took me over an hour to write mine out. Had I waited a short time, or looked in before I hit "submit reply" I could have saved myself ...

Goto, I was responding to your statement: "I guess the cause may be ne is that yang chen pu only taught it to Tung Yin Chieh,did not taught his son, yang zhen duo-But the cause is impossible. Another cause yang chen pu and yang zhen duo practice wronly.--the cause is impossible as well." M...

Kal, I have only recently begun to understand properly the idea of "hold in the chest, lift up the back". This is an elusive Essential as we can see. My first suggestion was the same as Jerry's, observe a good player as he exhibits this Essential and emulate his actions. But I think I may ...

Chee Fatt, Not all of Yang Cheng Fu's sons were "young" when he passed away. Yang Zhen Ming, known as Shou Zhong, was 26 when his father passed away, and had been trained extensively by his father. I can't be certain, but most of the accounts I've read about Yang Zhen Ming state he began t...