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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

Originally Posted by wiz cool c

do you have a clip of that throw you mention?

The "foot sweep" is not shown in the following clip. The "wheeling step - step in left leg, step back right leg, and spin your body" is used instead.

- You spin and pull your opponent into you.
- The moment that you feel she resists, the moment that you borrow her resistance force, hook her left forward stepping leg, and throw her toward the opposite direction.

It uses "attack south,

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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

At 1.44, the left arm is used to block a right haymaker. This just remind me a tournament sparring in Hong Kong back in the 70th. A WC guy used his left Tan Shou to block a CLF guy's haymaker. The haymaker not only knock through the WC guy's left Tan Shou, it also hit on the WC guy's head and knocked him down. After that tournament, the WC guy went back to Ip Man (my friend was Ip Man's student and was in the class at the moment). Ip Man then told him to use right Tan Shou plus a body rotation to

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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

The idea of "blocking" may be too conservative. If you can always use your blocking followed by a "wrapping", you can wrap your opponent as an octopus wraps on a fish, your opponent won't be able to punch you again.

Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

Originally Posted by -N-

Each method has a purpose.

Originally Posted by xiao yao

well I think it was just a good way to get a beginner to feel the torque, to learn that when you punch one hand forward, you add to the power by pulling opposite shoulder back.

When I was 11, my brother in law taught me an open hand form "八卦拳(Bagua Quan)" (not from the Bagua system) and a pole form "劈手杆 (Pi Shou Gan)". One day I got into a fight. When I asked him after the fight and told

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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho

Originally Posted by -N-

Each method has a purpose.

Originally Posted by xiao yao

well I think it was just a good way to get a beginner to feel the torque, to learn that when you punch one hand forward, you add to the power by pulling opposite shoulder back.

When I was 11, my brother in law taught me an open hand form "八卦拳(Bagua Quan)" (not from the Bagua system) and a pole form "劈手杆 (Pi Shou Gan)". One day I got into a fight. When I asked him after the fight and told him that

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