Qigong/Warm-up - does the Yang family recommend anything in particular?

[Bob Ashmore]

If anyone is still paying attention...
"Extended" is the key for proper TCC based physical movement, that's what I was talking talking about above as being the difference between getting beaten down by doing calisthenics and actually moving correctly when doing TCC so that it instead becomes therapy. Also the key for generating and expressing outgoing energy.
"Open" is the key for looseness and stickiness as well as sinking and rooting.
"Rounded" is the key for accepting and redirecting, as well as grounding when used in conjunction with "open", incoming energy.
This is only the surface though, once you reach these things correctly, then learn to combine them, the skills go deeper.
Once you have reached these things then you start to bring back in the rest...this is when your TCC becomes "high level magic" to those who aren't in the know.

[global village idiot]

Bob, you can accept it as an article of faith that you're being paid attention to.

You've never steered me wrong before, so I have no reason to doubt what you're saying now, either in the theory or in the means by which we discover the theory's validity.

Do please carry on - you have in me an attentive and sympathetic audience.

gvi

[Bob Ashmore]

GVI,
There's not much more to I can convey in writing.
I could show you... if we were in proximity.
But just typing these things out... it doesn't work.
I've tried so many times before with zero success.
When I say doing these things are "ridiculously easy" I mean it from the bottom of my heart, they're all ridiculously easy to do.
By themselves.
But combining these three ridiculously easy things to do and doing them all together...
That's really difficult.
And that's when I can be there with the person who's trying and actually touch them to feel if they're on the right track.
In writing... never been able to get the ideas across.
But... for you it's easy.
Ask Ken.
He knows how, hopefully he can show you.

Bob