i do only the 2nd section - sun pai fat, three palms to bhudda - ie the tan, wu, fook section slowly.
I do the 3rd, last part quite quickly, with a bit of force. Isn’t it supposed to work your fa jing? i read a book by yip chun and he describes the 3rd section as the fa jing section.
I spend about 10 minutes on it, sometimes longer like 12-15, but i am an impatient sod, sorry. And at the moment i don’t goto class, so i have nothing to sort of make me wanna go for longer… it’s hard to explain…
Sharky - To increase the time it took me to do Sil Lum Tao I practiced it during a 30 minute TV program, noting where i should be during advert breaks etc if the form was to last the full 30 minutes -
Hi, I’m still really new to WC, I spend different amounts of time on my form depending on where I am and how much time I have to practise. If I am at home, I like to take about 30 mins of practise at least( I also try training my one-legged abilities when at home)
When I am at work however, and on a break, I normally only have about 15 mins, so I try to keep it to that 15 mins (when I smoked I would guess my break-time at about 3 ciggies) . I manage to concentrate more on rooting though when I practise at work, and lack of a mirror helps too I think as I have to feel my positioning more than just looking at it in a reflection.
Don’t know if it is right or not, as I say, I am still a beginner, btw, the heat thing has stopped, I used to get it quite strong, anyone think I may be doing something wrong now??
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>>>we only do the tan fook wu part slowly; the reasoning (as ive been told) for this is that you gather your energy (so to speak) in that section, and then proceed to use that energy it in the rest of the form<<<
our sifu has expressed something similar. this is the only part i was told to do slow. the rest should have proper jing. of course, at lower levels, students do all of slt slowly until they are more intimate with it…
When we start we go over the entire form, then since I’m new I have to do for like 25 minutes repetitions of the moves I already know and then we teach a new move and repeat that etc..
some people pay to much attention of the time. espeically when you first start doing long forms you find that you are just leaveing your arm in space and then moveing now and then. after a while you find that you have force going forward while not moveing. this is when you start to do real long forms not by the clock but i like to do it so i have force but i can no longer feel my hand actually moving.
what do people think. i was going for 2 hrs for a while and the most i got to was 1hr 40mins. i had to fall over as my leggs wouldnt move. i had a talk with my teacher and he said the with that deep vien thrombosis( the plane thing) it wasnt a good idea to go much over 40 mins. so i just do 1hr ones now but i have found that when i first started i would lose feeling in my leggs very quickly. but now after an hour it still just hurts(least i couldnt feel them before). so do you think that after doing it for a while you would decease or increase the risk? as not loseing feeling means that the blood it flowing better.
well i dont know so im staying on 1hr to they know more about it.
