[QUOTE=imperialtaichi;1152266]Oh, btw, when practicing SLT, the shoulder on the non-working side supports the generation of power on the techniques being executed on the working side. So while one side trains yin, the other side trains yang and vice versa.
So the non-working side is actually doing a lot of work.
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Yes, we call that being whole, or complete and not being only a half of a man.
[QUOTE=imperialtaichi;1152266]Oh, btw, when practicing SLT, the shoulder on the non-working side supports the generation of power on the techniques being executed on the working side. So while one side trains yin, the other side trains yang and vice versa.
So the non-working side is actually doing a lot of work.
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Yes, in our SLT we keep one fist about two inches from the body so as to focus on that hand as well. Since the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body. If your fist is just resting against your body you’re using using only one arm. Both arms should be used independently like a pianist playing two distinct rhythms with each hand.
[QUOTE=Phil Redmond;1152282]Yes, in our SLT we keep one fist about two inches from the body so as to focus on that hand as well. Since the right hemisphere of the brain controls the left side of the body. If your fist is just resting against your body you’re using using only one arm. Both arms should be used independently like a pianist playing two distinct rhythms with each hand.[/QUOTE]
Yes. Playing the piano is a good example because while the hands are doing different things, they are also working with each other. It is also like doing up a button.
WC really is a big family 
Another example I like to use (haha, John talking like an old Chinese man again) is the “Chopstick Principles”. For a pair of chopsticks to work, the top chopstick moves while the bottom one remains stable. You can’t move both. Most people look at how much the top one moves, whithout realizing the importance of the non-moving one.
The second Chopstick Principle is the triangulation; the chopsticks picks things up best when working as a triangle. The opponent’s power source is what we are trying to control using our triangle.
Chopstick Principle #3: Our mind turns the chopsticks into part of our body. We can naturally pick up the smallest and slipperiest things as if the chopsticks are our fingers. We can feel the texture of what we are picking up as if it is connected to our nervous system. When in contact with an opponent, I do not think of him as something that I bash and push away, I look at it as extentions I work with.
Another interesting question: on your car, which side is the accelerator and which one is the brake? Haha, you’d need to think about it, even if it only took a second. I have to actually visualize it. But yet when we drive, it is all natural and we don’t need to think.
Fighting should also be natural.
Can you tell me in one word how to make all skills in your wing chun to become natural?
[QUOTE=imperialtaichi;1152296]Another example I like to use (haha, John talking like an old Chinese man again) is the “Chopstick Principles”. For a pair of chopsticks to work, the top chopstick moves while the bottom one remains stable. You can’t move both. Most people look at how much the top one moves, whithout realizing the importance of the non-moving one.
The second Chopstick Principle is the triangulation; the chopsticks picks things up best when working as a triangle. The opponent’s power source is what we are trying to control using our triangle.
Chopstick Principle #3: Our mind turns the chopsticks into part of our body. We can naturally pick up the smallest and slipperiest things as if the chopsticks are our fingers. We can feel the texture of what we are picking up as if it is connected to our nervous system. When in contact with an opponent, I do not think of him as something that I bash and push away, I look at it as extentions I work with.
Another interesting question: on your car, which side is the accelerator and which one is the brake? Haha, you’d need to think about it, even if it only took a second. I have to actually visualize it. But yet when we drive, it is all natural and we don’t need to think.
Fighting should also be natural.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Yoshiyahu;1152709]Can you tell me in one word how to make all skills in your wing chun to become natural?[/QUOTE]
Affordance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-_qR-sP9js
This is a video of my teacher’s teacher Wang Yong Quan shortley before he passed on.
Yes, it seems weird; and of course this is practice and not real fight. I’ve been on the receiving end so it is real. The challenge is adapting it in real fights.
My explanation of such a phenomenon is that the receiver had all the balancing senses confused, hence a light tap is enough to tip the person over. And because of the confusion in balance typically the receiver continues to run backward until the body re-gains the control. It works more on someone who wants to fight back; if the person is not paying attention it is harder to make it work (although there are ways).
I think the phenomenon is similar to someone walking into to tunnels in amusement parks, where the floor is steady but the wall is spinning, so everyone loses the balance the more you focus on walking straight.
[QUOTE=imperialtaichi;1152935] I’ve been on the receiving end so it is real.[/QUOTE]
You are a lucky guy. I have tried to meet people who can do that to me. So far, I haven’t met anyone yet. 
Back in 1980 San Francisco Kung Fu exhibition, I volunteered to be the receiving end of the master Liu Mu-Sheng’s demo. I was dragged off the stage by the announcer Brendan Lai.
[QUOTE=imperialtaichi;1152292]Yes. Playing the piano is a good example because while the hands are doing different things, they are also working with each other. It is also like doing up a button.
WC really is a big family :)[/QUOTE]
I like to think of us as one family. I feel sad for those that are divisive.