Your first day as In Door student may have started with something like , Now I so you the good stuff, the longest journey begins with the first step and then your Sifu probably started explaining and correcting your stance and body usage.
You did not levitate on day one.
In fact I think it took you decades to " levitate in a useful fashion.
Your speculation is certainly possible for some one else. However, that is not my experience.
Similar to those who learn how to swim instead of standing in the pool.
They are clumpsy the first day however they are swimming.
They swim better and better as training accumulate.
As for those who standing there in the pool might or might not swim, and chances are they will not be able to swim. Because they are standing.
You might surprise the different.
If you could have done so a decade ago your meeting with Andreas would have been different would it not?
it is in appropriate to bring Andreas up while we are having a technical discussion; I hope you understand that.
What happen between Andreas and me is none of anyone’s business.
But since you bring it up, I put it straight here once for all on record.
1,
I am Chinese Martial artists and the moduk my late sifu taught me is:
Yee Hei means do anything so that your friend is in a good position of encouragement while he is teaching.
It is about supporting a friend’s seminal with fun and laughter. it is nothing to do with win or lost. there is no point to compete with friend.
any serious response in action while your friend is teaching a school or seminal in his terretory is consider a challenge.
and that will have to settle with formal kong sau. All friend will avoid to get into those type of trouble at all cost.
Since you brought this up, I am more then welcome for you to:
1, Ask Robert who is there and witness the whole thing, see if I put up any defense?
2, Ask Andreas himself directly why does he said " Hendrik why do you open yourself up? "
Go check it out and get it straight.
2,
After that seminal, a certain group due to their own agenda starts to use ANY information to stir things up with Andreas, Robert, and me.
and, there is an article Written about How Robert propose to not listen and dont respect the older generation.
In fact, before Andreas left after the seminal; Andreas, Robert, and myself were in airport of LA, it is Andreas who brought up the subject of older generation issue, Robert is just listening.
Robert at that time ask me what is this B$ article about, I told him, make believe you are Wong Fei-Hung, will you response to this type of nonsense accusation? It doesnt matter, that got nothing to do with you isnt it.
For those who mis-understood Robert due to that article, this is the time to clear Robert up. It got nothing to do with Robert, it is a make up with an agenda.
3, finally, to answer your question on “would have been different would it not?”
It doesnt matter if it is Robert , Andreas, or any of my other martial art friends; disregards of what is the capability or level of my kung fu,
the out come will have no different – I support my friend in public. Be it I am playing a clown.
I was taught kung fu is not for showing off in the friend’s expense. kung fu is also not for ego boosting. and there is no incentive to show off one’s kungfu unless one want to use it
Saying the above, you might not living with the same value or code I have, that is fine with me.
We need to get back to technical topic instead of this side track.
The question still remains what are the first second and third steps to learn to “levitate”
stance is shoulder width that goes without saying
the knees sink forward? Knees just soft? Knees locked ? knees straight without give or bend?
Your thinking pattern lead you to these questions. and that is perfectly normal. because you are in a different paradigm.
There are examples and details orientated type of teaching;
and there are principle or Sum Fatt (heart method) orientated teaching.
those who understand the six directional force vectors will not has to ask these question of knees…etc. because they dont think like you do, They are principle orientated based.
And thus they dont train like you either.
There is an order to things? What is your order? We see the other sifu’s order.
EVeryone choose their own path. if you like this way, go a head.
My path is Zen, and NOw is not present, future, or past. Time is non linear. Flow never show up twice.
I expect no one to take what I share with blind faith. and also time will tell if what I share is in fact proper.