If it is an as you wish world. Put aside of which lineage ,which branch, shaolin or wudang or white crane or …
How do you wish you WCK system to be?
The feeling?
The styling ?
The movements?
The …
How would you like your SLT to look like or feel like or touch like…
How would you like your opponent to do when you confront them? send him flying? pin him? …
What do you wish to achive?
How deep do you wish you Kung fu?
As much as detail please and hope that no one high jack and all respect for other’s wishes.
1. A Natural response
2. Relaxed grounded energy
3. Listening
4. Whole body connection
5. Feel like cotton, hit like a needle
6. Be able to receive incoming energy without pushing it away
IMHO,
1, needs to cast off the limiting thoughts and return to true emptiness to achieve this.
2, need to do standing post to achieve this.
3, need to learn the ying yang medirian and how it accord to breathing and intention setting to achive this. listern with intention.
4, need to do circular drill with ying yang medirian to get here for dyanamic. then use standing post or the sun potential to refine this.
5, need time after 1,2,3,4 to curtivate the qi
6, need to understand the sphere force visualization and jing’s path trajectory to get here, since the movement of reel silk or changing body weight is too big.
if one doesn’t have to move alots to absorb, neutral, issue, or bounce back the incoming force. sphere force visualization is needed.
Since all of above is within SLT/SNT. so do SLT/SNT to achive them!
but needs many and many and many moons to get there.
not too late with we got there at 70year old.
Heh heh heh. sorry for my big mouth.
Sorry ancestors I know I am a sinner who always open more can of worms. Ok I shut my big mouth now.
Smooth as water, hard as stone- with apologies to Ice-T
A few less flippant rants-
the sort of ability to read at a distance which allows one to move in looking lazy and wind up there first on a blindingly fast kid.
power with my entire body enough that I never need to strike twice
awareness such that I can change between ghost-like softness, extraordinary solidiity, torrential onslaught, and shattering explosion as needed, and such skill with each of those things that I can execute them at will on all who stand in front of me
How it looks matters not to me. How it works does. Inside it should feel very easy, a brisk walk in the graveyard on a warm night perhaps hopping up on a sepulchre.
I am probably a dreamer, traditionalist, idealist in my thoughts of wing chun and any martial art.
First off, it must have power to reach the end result of a martial art… to be practical in a real situation. This doesn’t mean the power from muscles, but from body unity, structure, and gravity. I guess the common words we hear is faht or ging.
Wing Chun I want to learn should be direct and simple. No Clutter, no mess, no fuss, no BS. It should focus on the centerline and not chasing the hands. ALways putting pressure on the structure to prevent the attack from starting. No Flashy hands since the attack is nullified before it is started, and the opponent is totally cotrolled.
There should be no contradictions between what is said and what is done. Training should be realistic and training should be like application. One should be able to fight and train in a controlled manner. There is little need for excessive and disruptive movements. Simple control. That is what I am looking for in my wing chun.
thoughts that come to mind- relax, settled, sensitive, heavy, nim and yi, supple, substantial, go, water, cotton and iron. Not greedy and not afraid.
To become one with your opponent makes this an internal struggle not external and therefore we only possess the ability to restore harmony or the inability not to.
**Huh???..SLT? Where are Chum Kiu and Biu Jee in your lineage?
If you can do one good four directions throw you will be close to mastering Aikido. ------ M. Ueshiba, Osensei
Excellent point. Many people think proficiency/skill is learning the technical aspects of the art, but it really has to do with developing or acquiring the “inner game” – timing, sensitivity, power, being able to control an opponent’s balance, being able to recognize opportunities and act instaqntly, etc. – and one can’t pull off a “good four direction throw” without those. And if you have those qualities/attributes, making the rest of the technical aspects work becomes simple (“close to mastering” fill-in-the-blank). Without those aspects, however, regardless of one’s technical “knowledge” (and I would submit one truly doesn’t possess “technical knowledge” if they can’t do it themselves), one won’t be able to make the art work for them. And, fwiw, I don’t think Ueshiba was talking about being able to demonstrate the throw with a cooperative stuntman. TN
–If you can do one good four directions throw you will be close to mastering Aikido. ------ M. Ueshiba, Osensei --Hendrik
**Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. After many false leads, you’re offered a chance to again in a new setting. Where are Chum Kiu and Biu Jee in your lineage? Check it out. You can always back out later if you want. --RH
–Excellent point.–TN
**For your brother Hendrik is like you…??? RH
–Many people think proficiency/skill is learning the technical aspects of the art, but it really has to do with developing or acquiring the “inner game” – timing, sensitivity, power, being able to control an opponent’s balance, being able to recognize opportunities and act instaqntly, etc. --TN
**“…Think?” You don’t need to think anymore. It’s better to conquer yourself than to win a hundred battles.–RH
The six gates defines personal space. The study of the six gates becomes a study of self. When 2 enter the space of one they become one and the result is unrest. In our kwoon WCK is the study and practice of the finite number of ways to maintane or restore harmony of self.
Originally posted by Rolling_Hand
[B]–If you can do one good four directions throw you will be close to mastering Aikido. ------ M. Ueshiba, Osensei --Hendrik
**Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force. After many false leads, you’re offered a chance to again in a new setting. Where are Chum Kiu and Biu Jee in your lineage? Check it out. You can always back out later if you want. --RH
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In reality, Aikido has no forms, no set patterns. It is like an invisible wave of energy. However, such a phenomenon is too difficult for human beings to grasp. so we use provisional forms to explain it… - M.Ueshiba
Some loves to collect forms and forms, copy words and words.. but have no understanding of reality.
