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Excelent softness...
I hardly touched you.
This is...
Cai.
Cai...
is called pluck...
and some people call it...
pluck or pull down...
so they think...
it is like this...
however, not really.
Cai...
is like a wind...
is like a wind...
gathering...
alright?
You can think about the wind...
coming along...
picking...
or gathering...
the dust up.
Cai...
is in...
step up and raise hands...
step up and raise hands...
and...
and pull down.
The pull down...
is not...
pulling down...
it is the...
drawing of the person...
out of their centre.
Or the gathering of...
their root.
So when I...
do...
Face me this way...
From here...
if I do...
Cai...
what I am going to do is...
Then I...
go in...
Like this dip down...
dip down and come up...
again. Alright?
So I go down...
and then up.
So from here, I go in, and then I relax. There.
Imagine you are pushing down on jello, and then your hands come up again. That is Cei, drawing the energy up.
Or think of it as a whirlwind sucking the energy up.
Cai can be like this, where I pull you out of your centre like that.
So I use this to pull you out of your root and out of your balnce.
I can also do it by this.
I can do this. So here, the energy goes down, I reach down through your spine into your feet like that
And then I pour the energy down into my back.
He moves when I stop pushing down.
Watch him. As I go down into his feet like this.
...into his heels. And then I stop going down into his heels. He bounces out.
So, I go down like this. So what I do is I make an energetic connection, through my core, and I go down through...
into his spine. I make that energetic connection into his balance and I go into his...
structure, into his balance, into his root and I go down like this into the ground...
and then that energy I bring, I let it come up out of his feet, up out through my fingers
out down into my back, down into the ground.
Okay. That feels weird, doesn't it.
And when you do it. When you try
to do it - when you try to affect it, what happens is people go down and they try to lift up.
They try to somehow get underneath and
pull and push from down in there. It's not lke that.
It's like a syphon, "slurp" like that. It's not like "grunt."
It's like..Imagine your are drinking a milkshake through...
a straw and you blow down...
and then you try to blow up from the bottom.
inhale, not by reaching down with the breath and pulling up, but by
drawing air into your lungs. That is what causes the suction into the straw.
So, you go down into the ground, and now
what I do is not thinking about pulling him up out of the ground.What I do instead is take the energy...
energy that is in my fingers, and I pour it up my arm and into my back, and down into my feet.
and you have to let go and watch to see what happens.
People try to make it happen - try to make him come up like that. Of course, as soon as you try to do that it stops.
You have to basically go down there and then abandon him and forget all about him for a moment and let the energy go down into your feet.
And the he come up. But if I try to go out there and affect it externally, then it is not going to work. So I have to go
I go down into his feet and then I go down into my feet. I don't come up out of his feet. I go down into his feet and then I go down into my feet.
And now he is uprooted. First he is solid, he is relaxed, he is connected to the ground, and I push.
I push like this. He is not going anywhere. Perhaps he is... be solid.
I push him. I pull. Then I go down, up. Oh.
"That is weird!" So all of this trying to push him, trying to pull him, trying to move him, and then I just go...oh.
"Ya." [Laughs] "And it feels like nothing." And it is nothing.
See, all of that effort that you put into it is just blowing you out of the water. So, from here, I try to push you. I try to get underneath you, I try to uproot you, an you are just trying to figure out
how to get into the ground. But if I go...
"I can't believe it. It's like nothing touches you."
And it's not like I am changing vectors. I not pushing you over there. I am just going, 'huh'
So, from here. You what's going to happen. You know what I going to do. So, don't let me do it. Use both hands, use grappling skill...
Try to get in. Do whatever you can. So I go in, I try to push I try to uproot. [laughs]"It comes out of nowhere.
This is Cai.
This plucking, extracting, gathering.
It is a though. It's an idea. If I push...
"And the less you, do the more he goes." Exactly. the hardest thing about this is not doing what you think you should be doing.
You will mess yourself up as soon as you think that it is - Down - then Up - then Push. If you think it is that it's not right. It is more like...
It is the effort needed to prepare to drawn out of a straw.
It is like the exhalation that is needed before you inhale through a straw.
If I try to push down and pull up...push and pull, push and pull...bounce him...it is not going to work. But if I go in and then I relax.....
"Every single time" Every time. "I want do know how to guard against that." Lieh.
Cai, Lieh. Lieh is sideways...rending. Like that.
So, if you push me, and you are really solid this way, and I can't push you.
this way, or I try to pull. You don't let me push because you have a solid structure this way....
If you like up like this, so this way doesn't work. So you push me this way, then I go...
The vector is this way, so there is nothing this way.
The plane can be right on target and headed straight at the airport, but there is a 5 km/h wind going that way.
So in the course of a half hour you are 5 km to that side of the airport.
So you push like this, nice and solid. But...
So this is solid...
Now you are putting some peng in it. You take away from some of the foreward and you put some roundness in it. So that is defending against that.
So, to make this go, I have to be ready to do this.
"You just did the same thing?" Yes, I just did the same thing. Here he is round and he is defending against the sideways vectors.
So what I do is go into his feet and then back up out.
So really what we are trying to do is teach you how to use Lieh for defense, but instead what I really just did was show you how to use lieh to attack.
So lets use is as a counter. Here I use Cai to uproot you. I've done it in this vector.
So now, as I do this, take me sideways....rend.
So now, as I do this, try to take me sideways....So, rend.
That is one. The other is Zhou. You can use elbow against cai. I go in, and up.
You fold. Now, you do this to me.
You go down into the ground. Push down on the jello, and then go back down and back. No...remember it's not about me, it's about you.
It starts about me, so you go down into my feet, now forget about me.
Just go down into the ground. Now I am up rooted. Now you are sticking to much.
You are trying to control me. You are going 'oh I better control him, I have to have some pressure...'
'so I know where he is.' No, you don't need pressure to know where I am.
That is to much pressure. You go down... Let go of me.
Let me go. There you go. Now I am up rooted. Now you can go like this and just settle into the ground.
So now, I am up rooted. From here...
This in it's self is a victory in it's self for you.
This is because I lost my root and you can push me this way very easily.
You can push me that way to. You can do all sorts of things.
So the fact that you have done this means I have lost.
If I go like this...
Now that this has happened you have the thought of how do I win once that has happened.
The answer is get your balance back and connect into the ground. In order to do...
that is when you are off balance is to go side ways, this often wins.
It works the same way if you punch me... Side ways works.
I just get out of the way and go for your centre. So that is what happens when...
I am losing. If you are punching me I am losing, it doesn't matter if you are hitting me or not.
If you are going for a strike I am losing. Often enough martial arts...
teach you what to do when you are losing.
This is because the option is to start by wining. So if you punch me...
That is how I win, I don't let you punch me.
If you are actually punching me, you have the advantage.
There is no victory for me if you are punching me. Just as there is victory for you if I...
have just done something. If you are already up rooted.
The two questions are, one of them being...
how do you keep from losing and the other one is what do you...
when you are losing. What to do when you are losing may be the easiest...
easiest thing to teach. This is why most classes...
teach this. Even the ones that say we teach you how to win...
first, when they are really spending allot of time on what do to when you are losing.
This is because it is easier and more interesting to teach. So the first thing you should do is feel...
when this is happening and to go down with it. So that you go down first.
There like that. Now if I let go... So you have to defeat me...
You have to defeat this part of Cai.
Don't wait till after, 'dishwashing liquid, is it mild?'
Instead you don't let the person start doing Cai. It is so light...
and sensitive that a fly landing on you will set you in motion. So...
if you put your hand on my arm...
put your hand on my arm...
you shouldn't be able to put your hand on my arm. There should be no pressure.
So if I...
am doing this which is a attack on the very thing you're...
trying to constantly trying to re-enforce or more solid and strong.
So Cai takes advantage of the fact...
that you are trying to stay up right. 'Oh you are trying...
to get all of the energy and weight to go down into the ground through your body and alignment.
Cai goes, 'well let me help you with that...'
'lets go take that energy straight into the ground. Lets help you...'
support your self and allowing you to align your self to the ground. It is very different from doing this.
Where I am trying to push you off your base of support, instead what I am doing is...
trying to help you line up your centre of gravity with your base of support and go right into your feet.
Like that 'oh...' So you have had that...
help and then 'wow'
Giving someone to much help...
So when I do this you want to feel it happening or any pressure coming from the out side.
Anything from the out side is something to neutralize.
Any pressure, wether it helps you or not. This is one of the...
most important because it happens all of the time when you are grappling, attacking or you are in the mid-range.
People get in here and what they do... If you grab and try to move me...
I brace against you, so that if you try pushing me you are just pushing me into the ground.
If you push me I connect into the ground, redirecting the vectors...
so that your push is making me go down into the ground. 'This is brilliant...'
'look how brilliant I am! I am using your force to make my self more stable!' That's fine unless...
unless you go right back into your feet again. No, see...
see how this pressure is going into the ground? Think about the energy going right up...
up out of my body, up your arm, and right down your back. Then do Cai, no don't push.
Go right back, go away. "Oh that." Yeah.
Do this. So I am pushing and I go 'ha!'
When I...
use your pressure to brace my self I am double waited.
If you release that and let it go...
you are no longer double waited...
I am still. From here I am using force...
to hold my self up. If you let go of one side, yep.
From here I hold my self up, yeah like that.
From here I am using force to hold my self but so are you 'ha'.
You can let go of one side and I will be compromised.
If I let go of one side then you are compromised.
So this...
is letting go of one side. There is a side underneath your feet...
and there is the side above your feet and I just let go of one side...
and you bounce. Cai can happen this way, this way...
it can happen in all kinds of directions. It can also work like this, if you try to push me out of the ground and I...
go into the ground that is Cai or gathering.
You can...
defend against that when I try going downward by go side ways.
You rend...
as I push down you turn, moving at right angles...
to my pressure. So I push this way and If you...
try to go backward or roll it won't do anything.
This is because if you try pivoting around this point but I...
will be going straight into the ground and still up root you. So I can go...
like that. But If I do this and you...
neutralize this by going side ways or rending me...
or taking me to the side. So I have this pressure or what ever pressure it is...
going down like that about anything lateral will be a right angle to it.
Anything lateral is in right angel to down.
That is your neutralization to to this. So as I go down you go side ways.
Wether you do it with the hand or up here...
up here or do it with the short lever close to there, I push down and go side ways.
So you are taking this, which is going from here...
to here, this is strong and this is not. So this doesn't effect you as much.
This can not help you stay as balanced as this can, but when...
you take this away you aren't losing any more.
There are two ways to win, don't lose in the first place and...
stop lossing when you aren't losing.
"Oh mister wiggle." ok? "Yep." Alright...
Cai... lieh.
Make sense? "Yep" Groovy. "Just have to do it."
That's it. That isn't that bad.
Now think about going up and out of your arms and out of your fingers.
Go down into the ground like that so you extend your power like that...
release me and let the energy...
pore back to you and out of me, that's it.
Then just...
catch me like this and push me with your legs. so you go down then...
let it come back into the ground like you are going to catch it.
So the ball is in the air now and then use your legs...
to go forward. So go down...
then forget about me pout it back into your feet, now the ball is in the air...
There you go.
You won't feel me come up because you are moving ahead of me.
It is like you become the...
bout infront of the water skier you don't feel the skier behind the bout.
Normally when we talk about fallowing the opponent we fallow like...
a surfer in-front of the wave. This time you are going down...
and then you release and go into the ground.
You catch me and use your legs. Make sheer that you use your legs and not your arms.
So it is your legs and your hips. This is what projects me. Don't use...
your shoulders. So you go down into the ground...
That's it. Now you...
use your legs to move me. That is it.
The trick is opening the lower back and 'hmf'
You have this rotation, and this rotation.
You can use this hip rotation, this rotation or this one, but don't use...
your arms. Unless you don't use your legs at all and make your self really solid...
and then you can go like this with your fingers. So you don't have to move your legs if you can...
keep this solid and rooted then you can just let your hands go like this.
As long as you are not using force.
Go into the ground then...
forward, there you go, 'hehehehe'
I can...
see my house from here. "Allot of it is trying to stay mentally..."
"stable." That is right. Emptiness is the key.
That's it. At the...
end you gave a little push.
Not bad.
Take your time to catch. If I start to move forward take your time to receive it.
See how far I can go before...
"Don't be in a hurry to do it." Yeah, in practice don't be hurried to do it.
Shoulders down, elbows dropping, extend your fingers and raise your hands...
There. "No tension." That is right.
In...
yang style it is step up raise hands...
allot of people don't differentiate this between play guitar and step up and raise hands.
They will do step up and raise hands like guitar.
Play guitar is completely different. Step up and raise hands is...
like this. Chen style will have a similar idea. Where the energy...
goes down and then you catch it. So you will have...
There are different versions in Chen style of this where you will have...
down and then up, and then you will have...
closing in like this.
I will come in and down like this and then like that.
Chen style...
I will be across in like this and then...
Like that. Or grab the head...
there. So don't think about this as a pulling...
of the head but in fact it works better if you use Cai, you go in...
and then release it. "Do that again." So...
I can pull and slam it in and that uses my force against your force but it works better if I...
can go into the ground and then throw your...
head at my knee. "That is such a settle..."
That is really interesting." Peace of pie.
There is this version of Chen style where you go in like this...
and up.
So there is no pulling, you are going after my hands.
So I go in and then this.
It goes like this. Then there is...
this option. I go in like this and then...
into the ground and then this. "Ah!" Like that 'laughing'
So there is a little side and pull.
Or you grab my arms and I will go like this.
Like that. If you are grabbing and not even...
just trying to hold me back, you are controlling my spine.
Like that. So then it is like this.
If you come forward and try staying on me centre then this ends up...
being like that. You end up being empaled.
You land on the spikes. The...
"The more I tense up the more you have me." Yep.
So you have the literal idea of this...
or you get into the 'ah' "The same thing."
Yeah, but there is no effort and you couldn't help but fall on it.
So I just say 'fall on the sword thank you.' That is again...
this is that, in and out. So...
from here it is... 'hums'
Like that. "Is that side to side?"
"Or is that in and out." It is a slight deference but, the thing is that makes...
it work is the... This is extra.
"You take me down." Yeah, that is the stuff I do after I move you.
The wining is caused by Cai.
So I go like this.
The gathering is what causes...
the victory. "So you did..." No, I did this.
"You did the same thing?" Yes, see?
So you are fallowing, I am not pulling or leaning. It is not like...
you are leaning on to this and then I go like that. Which is what people think when they see it.
They go 'I lean on their arm and then let them go.' "But that is what it feels like." Yeah...
But because your pressure is there along with your mind.
Your mind is not on your compromised root. Sheer...
this disappears and you fallow it but this isn't what makes you do this...
is that. So you ended up going like this.
It saves me allot of time. "You are going down..."
I go down and then come back to my feet which makes you come out of yours. So what I am doing...
is going down and then sit back and do nothing. The mistake is...
when people go like this and they think that they are the ones making the other person go when they aren't.
The trick is understanding when your opponent is doing the work for you...
and letting them not think that you are making them do it.
There is a delusion in martial arts where people go 'look I used my chi...'
you may feel as though this is happening but it is not.
You are diluting your self if you think that you used your mystical energy to throw a person.
What you are really doing is thinking about it but they are doing all the work them selfs.
You can mess it up by trying to do it form me.
It is like... See? This is not me pulling your hand. "no you are not."
People can think that I am using my 'chi' to move you off balance.
No, you are off balance already and I just waved my hands. "So you are..."
"going straight down are you?..."
"concentrating my thought process down and then you remove it making me lost?" Yes.
There are levels of conscious and sub conscious thought...
that I am intercepting. So, every time there is a thought...
there is an emotion, and with an emotion there is a physical response. So by manipulating the physical response...
I manipulate your emotions and your thoughts and if you become really good...
you become aware of what physical responses create certain emotional responses on a very deep level.
Witch can be very help full. This is why we do this.
You can also delude your self in thinking that you are...
telepathic and manipulating the other persons mind.
When really your are just letting them do what they would normally do, you are not controlling their mind.
You are not taking the mind and going like this. You are going going...
'do things taiste salty to you?' 'laughter' and...
suddenly you start thinking of saltiness. "Yeah."
That is not mind control.
This is controlling your mind, 'what on earth could that be?'
So here I am trying to lure you out of the ground...
and control you, which is completely different.
It is so much easier than most people think. This is why Tai Chi is very easy to do...
but very difficult to correct. People keep thinking that they need to be doing...
something. Most of the time the not doing that...
works.
Trust me, women have a tendency to be much better at this...
They are better marksmen, martial artiest, and pound for pound better fighters.
"How come that didn't work?" That is because you were...
not into my spine. Go down...
You are hanging on me it won't work. I am not a meat hook.
If you hang on me and let go... See I came up a little bit but because...
you are just hanging on me and letting go it is deferent from going down like this and...
like this. It is like the deference between bouncing a ball and pumping a...
syphon hose. It will have a different feeling.
Go with your mind. Your mind goes into my feet then come out of my feet...
There you go. I will fallow your mind more than I will...
fallow your body. You need intent. There has to be something...
there. It is like If I throw a punch at you...
That isn't going to be a problem for you. because all I am doing is putting my fist out there in space.
I am not actually punching you. You won't do anything.
This is because there is no point. If I just throw my fist out there...
you are not even going to move out of the way. You will just go, 'oh a hand.'
That is where the interaction ends. If I throw a punch...
it doesn't start with me going 'I will put my fist out here...'
it starts with me feeling my fist hit your face. That is where...
the punch begins. It starts with the feeling of the impact. And perhaps seeing...
blood. Then I move. I am not going to throw a fist unless...
I know it is going to hit you, unless I can feel it, unless I am confident enough to do it.
See the difference? All I have to do is...
fist and nose. Your hole body changes along with your structure.
I go like this, and the scenario has changed interlay.
That is very different from doing this and then going like this.
Things are changing and you are sticking and fallowing and...
neutralizing. When you do this...
you have to go in with mind as if you are going to drill into the ground.
go through your fingers tips straight into my feet, into...
the centre of the earth and then you retreat. Then I go with you.
Even if my body does not make a big change or...
bounce out, if you went for the asoteric kind of...
bounce, I may have a physical response but your mind will still be...
there. If I do the physical bounce...
I am bouncing on a meat hook. Then your
body will go like this but your mind will still be there. You will not be...
up rooted as well. If I go in there energetically...
with my mind then your mind goes. Even if your body does not bounce as...
much, your mind will, and that is what matters.
This is what will uproot you.
I can physically bounce you like this but I won't throw you off balance afterwards because...
you are still connected. But if I go in with the intent into your feet...
like this and come out again then you don't even bounce.
You were like this and then 'I guess we're over here...'
There is the physical trick...
of going like this and then there is...
the mental trick of doing that. Witch makes you go 'wha?'
"What did you do there?" I used intent.
I used a physical trick where I bounced you and push you but your still connected...
then I used a energetic version.
"So that is what you did." Yeah. If I use energetic intent...
will effect you structure in so many ways that it won't just...
make the hole thing bounce. If I can use intent...
to compromise your structure then what is going to happen is that you will change your mind.
So now the fight has changed just because I went 'oh look at that!'
"Thats how you initiate."
Yeah, people can't learn this right off the bat because they need...
some kind of root or some kind of structure. They need to know what it means to really feel...
what the persons centre is like. They need to know how to connect to the connective tissue...
along with some sticking and fallowing skill.
You get people who just learn technique. Some grapplers...
can get it but usually people focus on technique. I do this and this and this.
They are not thinking about this level of structure. But when they do...
It is just weird isn't it.
It is way more fun then actual fighting.
"It feels like it wouldn't work in a real fight."
"That bringing in something like this would seem ridiculous." Fighting is ridiculous in it's self. "I mean your reaction..."
"would be something like this. It feels like ok, what ever."
If you train in context.
Push hands can be...
really unrealistic. It can be like this.
Push hands can also become like this, finding the centre...
where if he isn't neutralizing than I have his head.
But he sinks his shoulders and drops his elbows, and now I don't have his head.
Now we understand the context. We can do push hands and make it look like...
there are doing something realistic but it isn't. You can connect...
It is realistic but it is tense.
But as soon as someone realizes 'oh jeez.'
Once you have that idea...
push hands become much more realistic. Then we can take this to long range. You punch...
It becomes like that.
This is a deliberate cartoony demonstration...
but that is what it is like. If I throw a punch...
You intercept the mind right away. Relax...
connect to my feet. There.
Remember the principles. That is why we practise the forms because...
it isn't about technique it is about how you are. You have to be...
a particular way. Once you have that quality you have Gung Fu.
Technique is not martial skill. Having a bunch of things that make you go, 'if he does...'
'then I do this and if he does this I do that...' Yeah...
but if you are not poring the energy down into the ground it isn't Tai Chi.
If you can pore the energy from what ever point of contact down into the ground...
even with out a great stance or good flexibility...
or even the powerful...
hip wiggle. If you have that connection...
you are going to be able to win. This is how 75 year old women half my size can kick...
my but. This is how 80 year old guy bounces me off...
the wall. This is how you bounce me off the wall.
Even though you are only 63. "I don't even know what I am doing."
'laughing'
When you did that earlier today or a couple hours ago...
we were talking about poring energy and you did it like that. 'snaps'
You can't teach that to most martial artist because most of them are twelve years old.
You can't teach this to most people.
This is because it isn't part of their...
experience. Until you have spent the time to know...
your own mind, then this is the challenge for people. You have to become aware...
of the part of your mind that you are not aware of. Which means you have to work through your own problems.
You have to work through allot of emotional and physiological stuff.
That is why some people who do Tai Chi some times...
seem like they have mental illnesses. "Before or after?" Both.
The process of working through your stuff is...
dangerous, and challenging.
"I think it is worth it." Of course it is. It is like vomiting. No one...
likes to vomit but you feel allot better then how did before you do vomit.
You have to become aware of tension that you are not aware of.
Once you find it you have release it.
In the process you will find out 'gee I was holding that tension for a reason.'
Working through your crap is really challenging.
People who do inside meditation go in thinking 'Oh it will be great...
'to have have a nice vacation seminar and relax...'
'and calm my mind.' Then they are sitting there listening...
there to their breath for three weeks and it become really...
really challenging. You hold tension for a reason.
But once you get down to the root cause you deal with it.
We hold tension because we don't want to face our issues.
When we relax the tension we discover the issues.
It isn't like some types of therapy where you...
have to relive the scenario that caused the problem.
That is why martial arts is such great therapy and bio feed back.
There is very little things that give you better feed back...
like martial arts. 'Is my mind calm, 'thump' oh, apparently not.'
From here, just use your mind. Go into...
my spine, and let me go, going back into your centre.
"You're the only one who felt that?" Yes that is right. I am on my tows right now.
If you go underneath me, no, don't push down, just go underneath.
Like you are catching a ball.
So when you are doing this it is a big...
movement.
You don't feel it but do you feel how I am still connected? "Yes."
I am on my tows. "That is un real."
You will not feel it that is the thing. Once you get better and better you will start to feel it.
You will know what will happen based on what happened first.
When you do the first part of it you now know that when you go...
Stay close to me and get underneath...
just create the structure that will support me.
It doesn't matter what part of me lands on you. Do it again, go down...
and then go up and out, don't push down, go underneath...
me right away. So you go here like this...
and then just like that. I just have to be underneath.
Wether I am here, here, here, or here, it doesn't matter. You go...
down, then let me go, then catch.
To much movement. Just go strait to me centre.
That is it. You connect to my centre as quickly as possible. If we are grappling like this...
I go like that.
It will happen in a instant. Here, you go down...
there that's it and then you go back down into your feet and connect.
Try that with gym.
Here is the ultimate test.
Do what you did against me.
Engage into his centre right away. "I deliberately co-operated but..."
"yes I felt it." Do it again.
Think about grappling and just do that as a response.
There you go. "I still co-operated, but it was real." Again.
Be less co-operative.
Just because he isn't being co-operative doesn't mean it will be harder.
"Is it up rooting you?" "I can't tell if I am..."
"up rooting my self but something is working."
"I think I am co-operative." 'laughing'
don't co-operate.
The thing is you will co-operate even though you are trying not to.
So try not to co-operate. That is the whole point of this drill.
This drill is supposed to make you co-operate.
If he does this right, than you will throw your self.
If you do it right he won't...
co-operate in the beginning but by the end he will say oh I co-operated, but that is the whole point.
It is still...
you that did it. Watch...
He was not co-operating there.
That is because he didn't know what I was going to do. "No, I thought you were going this way.
What I am doing is in and then out.
'grunts.'
"Can I punch?" 'laughing.
So into the ground. So it is in...
and then release. Because he wasn't here for it he doesn't know...
exactly what the drill is. But he has a idea.
"I think you are making me pounce." So the idea...
here is Cai. I go down into the ground, helping you support...
your self and then I go away. Then you up root your self.
It is different from a bounce or going like this...
Instead I help support your self and then I leave you alone.
"What do you mean helping me?"
Supporting your self means aligning your centre of gravity with your base of...
support. The centre means you want this lined up with this and this and this.
So that the weight of your body is lined up with the centre of the earth and goes straight down into the ground.
That is balance. When I try to upset your balance I am moving your centre off you base of support.
I can move any part of your centre.
What ever it is, I will try to compromise...
your alinement with the earth.
What I do here is, I go in...
into the ground, I push down into the ground.
It is like in a pushing drill and I push you to uproot you, or...
I push to make you more solid. Do you see the difference? "Yes." So here I am extreme...
co-operative version where I am pushing you into the ground. 'look! He so solid!'
'I can't move him, how is he doing...'
'that, he is redirecting my force in to the ground.' Then I come out of the ground and that happens.
'laughing.'
It is like a siphon. You put the hose in, then you line it up and fill...
it up with water and the other water will go out like that.
So that is what I am doing. I am siphoning your energy out of the ground.
By going down like that...
and then up, allows you to do that. "That isn't a bounce?" No, it is not a bounce.
Because I am not bouncing you. "Ok, so one is more of a..."
"boing, and the other is sustained pressure." Yes. So bouncing...
this way, this way, this is just coming up and evolving.
The bounce requiers a surtan amount of speed and pressure.
There is no pressure. If lets say a basketball is on the ground...
to bounce it all you have to do is go like this. But what we are doing is more putting your hand...
on the ball and then taking your hand off the ball slowly.
Because you are not bouncing, creating this...
you are just releasing the pressure.
That is why people try to do this, lifting up and it doesn't work.
This depends on just going in...
and just leaving.
"If we were grappling it would be more like this. But still..."
I am not trying to fall over." If you are grappling you will still try to stay up right.
You don't want to do this.
You want to go in and get your hips underneath.
You want to be in like this. So we are in this like this...
Were in close and then...
"You just did that." What moved you?
"That hand!." 'laughing.' Yeah, but...
I did this. I try to lift you up, I can't...
I try to push you, I try to move you...
"You hips to..."
"It was effortless." Yes it was.
once the person is up it is just what way do they go.
The ball is up in the air, what way do you hit it. That is all.
The victory is here when the ball is up in the air.
"So you are going, ok, here is the resistance, I can't...
"go around it so I go around it and go palm strike.
"go around it so I go around it and go palm strike."
"It feels like you are going around the resistance."
There is this idea where if I go in...
and then up and back and then you are starting to land...
again and I try to push you it is different. But if I go down...
and come up and I get underneath you I can take all the time I want.
As long as I am not as I am not on top of you. The idea of releasing...
you and then trying to push you back again. So if you go in to the ground...
So more in and then you go back and out into your feet.
Then ketch him, don't hang on. The difference is...
not where you move your hands...
the difference is how you think of it.
If you think of your hands going around and then underneath then it won't work. But if you think of your hands...
already underneath than the structure changes. So you go in...
into the feet like that. Then back into your own... There you go!
See now you're underneath and that will bounce you away.
So that is the difference in the feeling.
So you go in and as soon you poor your self in, there.
That is it. Try that.
If you do it ever 4 or 5 seconds...
He may ketch on.
The only way to neutralize it is by going right angles to it. So if he is going down...
go sidewise.
"So after I let him go?"
Before you engage. As soon as they start doing this.
As soon as you feel the pressure downward you need to move at right angles to it.
So if the guy is pushing down into your root, don't let em.
Because he is doing it on purpose, you don't let him do it.
This is what we were...
talking about before. If I push down into your...
center than that is going to happen.
If you try to push me...
backward, I connect here and I push down into my...
center. Now you have pressure in my root. So now you are pushing...
down into my feet. I want you to do that. If you push me here...
backward. But if I do this, than you are pushing into my feet.
I have redirected your pressure. I want to redirect your pressure into my feet.
If we are grappling and you are trying to lift me, then I...
get underneath you like this I am redirecting you into my feet.
So you are making me more solid by trying to lift me up.
I will brace to make this happen. I shouldn't...
it is a imperfect strategy but grapplers do it all the time.
Also beginner grapplers do this all the time as well. What I should be doing is...
If you come in like this, and I brace upward I can be moving at right angles so that...
your down ward pressure into my feet doesn't work.
If you push down into my feet I move 90 degrees to it, like that.
If you try to engage my spine...
This is why...
it works as a thought process not a physical one. If you try physical...
bounce you are going to run into trouble as soon as you meet someone...
who has this skill. So if you try to push down into my centre...
I am going to do that. But if you think...
about pushing down into my centre...
If I start to neutralize and then you go out again it works.
"That made you move?" That made me move. From here if I try to use force to push down you can neutralize that.
You can do that no problem. So I push down you move at right angles you can move me. But if I use my 'Chi...' This...
non-existant Chi, sheer it doesn't exist, but it works really well. You can't neutralize it because...
it isn't a physical reaction. It is just a thought. It is real intent. I have to go 'grunt'
From here if I use a physical force you move at right angles, as I push down you neutralize...
my downward pressure. But if I use thought and neutralize my downward pressure It doesn't work very...
Because there is no downward pressure. I use intent, am projecting my Chi. But I am not just going 'eh...' I have to use real intent.
So you make your self solid, and I can't do that or that, but I go... now I can.
The thought go goes... What does a thought say... 'one person laughs.'
This technique becomes a quality.
Cai, just like Pung is like a quality. It permeates everything. You can think of Pung as a technique but if it is a quality then you have Pung Ging, through out the form.
You could also have Cai Ging through out the whole form as well.
If you have Cai as a quality then the person should never be able to have their feet rooted to the ground. If you have this down, what is going to happen...
is that your opponent will always be out of the ground... "I was like just push me already" 'laughing.'
It is not something you do. It went from a physical action...
To being the intent to going in and out again, to the idea of intent going in and out again. So now it is this energetic quality.
So now I just have to have that and you can't find the ground.
'laughing' "I couldn't get my right foot forward. I should say my weight." That is right, so you make your self solid...
and I push you around and try to do this then it won't work but if I have Cai Gi.
Than that up roots you. Then it just doesn't just become a thing and a response it becomes a quality that causes you to be uprooted.
It is like the wind over a propeller. It will cause the propeller to move. Once you have that energy going...
The kite is going to be air born because the wind is always blowing. "If the wind..."
"is always on my heels." The wind blows over the sheet of paper like this and the paper does this as long as the wind...
continuos to blow. You are taking a technique and refining it to become a quality. then it becomes...
like a shape. Once you have that then it will keep the other person up rooted. You can combine that with other energies like...
Pung, and lu, and the other person can't do anything about it.
That is real martial arts. "You are continually applying so I couldn't get back." That's right. I wasn't going like this, in and out in and out.
I am not bouncing them. I have this energetic quality and you can't get your feet in there. "If I move my feet I could."
If you move your feet then that is my goal so I can get you at a different angle.
Doing this in mid range is great because it is the most dangerous. If you can master mid range...
than you can fight in a way that other people hate. People like to be back here throwing bombs at you or they like to be in really...
close where they can defend against your strikes and protect them selfs. People don't like to be here because this is where all the joint locks and finger breaking happens.
People don't like to be here, you just go...
The problem is that...
when you do all mid range stuff...
you get out here and you think you are fine. 'laughing.'
I have seen it happen to people.
The guy backs up and I go, oh we have broken contact.
No we haven't broken contact. He is just winding up.
You need to be aware.
There are other ranges as well.
Relax. "I am trying to concentrait on relaxing."
feel where my centre is.
Just feel it. Think about going down into my spine. Don't push.
Just think about going down into my spine. The dynamic has changed.
"I see what you are saying, it is hard to understand."
The dynamic has changed because your mind is in my centre and if I move...
you are going in that direction with out any increase of pressure.
So if I do not stay here, then the next move...
will have you in my centre. I can feel that because I can feel your mind...
at my centre.
If you go back into your spine that up roots me.
This is the level of thinking that we are talking about.
The entertainment value here is the frustration...
that people experience when they go 'there is no pressure, but what is happening!'
'there has to be something happening.'
"I used my Chi" Yeah, the funny thing is that will work on some people.
To a degree there is Chi, but if you want...
to explain what is really happening you have to be able to explain it in newtonian physics.
That is the only way to explain it. You can try to explain it in terms...
of quantum mechanics but that doesn't work for people.
"They want the math on the wall as well."
There is a long explanation that isn't that useful.
You want to be able to explain it in newtonian physics but when we are teaching it...
we say we used our Chi.
I waited for you to try it...
and then I did it back to you.
If you are squeezing in...
you keep the pressure on one side as you release the one side.
There, ok? Now do that again.
So from here...
keep that pressure. Now I can release it as well.
It is the same idea here if you go into my centre and I go into your...
Then you release me and go back into yours...
Then I fallow.
If I am aware of what you are doing then I can mirror what you are doing.
So you go into my feet, I go into my feet, rather than...
bracing against it, becoming double waited..
So you go down into my feet and I go with you...
and when you go back into your feet I release your feet.
So you go down into my feet, I go into my feet...
and then you go back into your feet and I fallow.
"When you go into your feet and when he goes back into his feet, what does that mean?"
I put the water in the straw and I poor it back into my...
feet. So you put the hose in and fill it with water...
and you are going to let the water drain out.
So what happens is... You do that to me...
So go down into my feet...
You go down...
You go down into my feet, I go back to my feet, then back to yours...
watch.
I go in, then I go back.
It is not like this.
There you go.
Stay solid so you can ketch me.
It is just here, and then there.
Go in and then ketch me, no, don't push me...
Go down, then back. No, you are doing this. We are talking about...
going in and then... Ketch
So go back into your feet. No don't push me...
There you go, now get underneath, wait no...
just get underneath. Be a...
lamp stand. No, ketch me, your a lamp stand.
You go down into my feet, then you go back into yours...
and become a table. Now...
your a table on wheels. Use your legs.
You could have just gone...
So I go in, and I become a table and then...
"So there is..."
"a in between stage, as oppose to..."
"no space in between. It isn't bounce push it's bounce..."
"find that neutral point and then direct it." It is...
go in and think about his feet and how solid he is and how much...
pressure he has on his feet then you go back into your feet and leave him alone.
You become a table again. Don't worry about him. Maybe he will come out and he will land on you and he may not.
You go in and then go out, leaving him alone.
Becoming a solid structure. Maybe he will come out and land on you.
Maybe the frog comes out and lands on the table. You can not...
be concerned with that while you are doing it. You put the water in the hose...
and then you let it drain it out. You don't do anything ells. Once the water is poring out of the hose...
your job with the siphon is finished. Ok? Have you ever...
used a siphon? "No." "Do you know about them?" "Yes." Ok, so...
you have water here, you put a hose in it and the water...
only comes out up to here. If you can get the water out this far...
then the water will drain out of that bucket.
You need gravity to create the suction you need.
So what we are doing is, putting the straw in there...
like this, nice and far, and then brining it out again.
If you watch farmers do it... The water...
is here and you have to get it over there than all you really have to do is push the thing to fill it up with water.
You don't need tho blow on it or anything you just have to shake it around...
and the water gets over the hump and it will starts flowing out and that...
does the work for you. That is basically what we are doing. We are putting the hose in there...
and then brining it up again letting the water...
poor down. If you try to lift it up it won't work. If you try to shake...
it out you will get air in the hose and it won't work. So you go in...
and then out. Like that.
This the beauty of Tai Chi.
This is a martial art.
That is a deadly technique.
Fallowed by, 'ohh' the kudagra.
That is the idea. So...
from here this is in...
out, down...
'yawn.' From a grappling situation...
You ok? "Yes." So it is just...
That, that, that, that.
I dip the fingers right into...
the clavicle or trachea. So there are all these striking points...
Eyes, I can do all this damage while I am uprooting him.
So he will have some souvenirs after I throw him.
Really the technique is to go down into his feet...
and out of his feet and then ketch him.
Then pull down, hold his hand...
hit him with a knee, elbow, and then a shoulder, then...
'yawn' White crane spreads it's wings. Or any variation...
on that line. From here we are grappling and fighting...
But if I go, step up and raise hands...
I have to stop do I don't hurt him for the next part. Now it is...
knee, elbow...
shoulder, toupee...
So, you grab my wrists...
were here fighting...
Thats it. that is 'eh...'
It doesn't look like a martial art but it isn't sap-post to.
People think that martial arts is about fighting when in fact...
they are largely about the other kind of fighting, me not fighting.
From here... All that stuff... Or we go...
"I had him didn't I?" 'laughing.'
I had him right where I wanted him. "At that point right there you had him." 'laughing.'
The idea of relaxing...
and letting stuff happen...
is creasy. People will put such effort in trying to win that...
really they are only fighting them selfs. But if you...
There you go. See how much more relaxed he is then he used to be?
One of us would have been hurt at this point.
This kind of stuff would have gotten you. And now it's this...
oh get this out of the way, trap... when really all you have to do is...
oh centre. "Not falling for that again clown..."
"face." 'laughing.' Oh there is an arm, oh lets just forget about it.
Where is your mind.
As soon as you take care of that knee... So...
what is the technique here... It is 'half committedly grunts'
Sorry. I thought you were further away. 'laughing.'
The hardest thing is to get people to realize that...
'grunts' all this stuff...
is fine but if it doesn't have root...
a basic understanding of basic energy the you better hope the other person is just as bad...
as you are. You better hope the other person has the same kind of...
tension and the technique that you have other wise you won't have a chance.
"That brings up a good question. First you are coming in with a pattern..."
"am I going to be fast enough if I am just relaxed enough?" Lets find out.
'laughing' Gym wants...
to test this. "I want to see the test." 'laughing.'
I remember the first time Gym said 'what does it really feel like getting hit there...'
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