Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
In speaking of Silk Reeling another movement is the "turning" movement. You keep the pelvis
fixed and you turn. The buttock is fully engaged actually. The buttock function will keep the
pelvis from not turning. So when you are turning up there the buttock is holding the pelvis.
As usual, with this one, I find more people have problems when you teach this. The problem
is getting the shoulder away from the turning movement. If the shoulder has even a little bit of initiation in the movement
you lost it. Don't use the shoulder. Everything is in here (core, lower abdomen). The shoulder
is just a slave following the movement. Anybody have any questions on this turning
movement. "Do you practice with a tuck"?
Yes, because the buttock is involved. You feel the buttock is energized and holding
the pelvis. "Master Hwa, at the end of the turning movement,
is there a sense of a denser contraction that is happening"?
Well, a lot of places you feel the contraction. When you turn in this direction, without moving
take over?" I guess, initially it is relaxed back to the
neutral position. You can do it either way.
You could relax to the neutral position or you could energize back to the neutral position.
You probably want to energize back to the neutral position. Because when you have an
application you may have to energize any segment of the turn. So you want to energize back
to the neutral position. I think you want to energize so you are intentionally
turning back, rather than just relaxing back. Try to get the shoulder away from any of the
movement. I notice on this side, you get a little bit
of drop of the shoulder. Good, very good. Do you find how much energy
is involved in making this movement, compared to turning at the pelvis...because it is moving
at the abdominal area. So this is another silk reeling exercise. Boy the beginner just
eat it up. "Well it is something they can do"
They can feel, and they feel somewhere they never have sensation before.