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Ex.: Thrust with a "knife" and let your partner work the dihp jeung until he can capture your arm a good percentage of the time. Then start bending your elbow as soon as you feel the lock coming on. Then make it more challenging by trying to pass your weapon to the other hand before he can finish the butterfly.
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About thirty years ago I started feeling competent enough to follow sifu's advice and begin reversing sets and techniques. I still can't get the left-hand dihp jeung to work well against resistance. It's okay, though. The follow-ups are built nicely into the system, don't you think?
yup. personally i would only use the butterfly hands to trap just for a moment, never hold it there for too long. sifu taught us long ago that when a struggle takes place while trapping, end it. let go. it only becomes a game of strength. when we tried it out, he was right.
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Collar choke, clinch, headlock, outward elbow wrench,...
Multiplicity of applications for a few simple ideas is one of the things that makes CLF a good system.
Agree with the similarity to some push hand ideas. Find the elbow and you know what to do.
yup. sifu always said "here is one way to use it, now come back next week and show me five more uses for same technique. and much of what we do is also good for the ring. i love saying "oh we have that in our CLF, we just do it a little differently"