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(I think that is what I'm shooting for)

kind of a problem, thinking. Taking a past experience and trying to recreate it in the present based on some future that has not happened yet.

There...

(I LIKE THAT!)

this is the best way to approach it. if I may forget about the usage. Just approach it by trying to match the movements exactly as you can with the understanding of what is being...

Here's a fictional example of a perception shaped by both reality and ideas: a young external martial artist comes up with the idea that tai chi is a worthless martial art, and that there are no true...

(but IMHO, one can never be truly open minded, as experience and prejudice will always influence your mind to some degree.)

in gen one may not find what one seeks and expects until ones experience...

It would seem that you really are just looking to validate what you know. After 22yrs in something how is it that you don’t understand what didn’t find.

how do you know they do not?

no assumptions made on my part, what i see is in accordance to my own experinces

The body mechanics that you describe, will not work with out the other skills. I...

(As far as the last clip, do you believe that old man can move you without contact? Do you just accept the first clips (Dr. John's) as being "low level" requiring contact and alignment, with the last...

Maybe what you wrote is not what is really happening. The other clips compared to the last clip you mentioned show the same things being used, just at a lower level.
The first understanding in any...

Nice clips John.

The words with out any power I think might give some the wrong impression. I think a better way to say it would have been ( I used long and slow changes in order not to hurt my...

Mmm, I would say no, pushing on ones self is not the way. Practice the solo set to understand movement. push hands allows you to get the feeling and understand what is going on in and check the...

(I'm hoping someone can give me a good definition of internal strength v.s. external strength.)

my own short way would be that things working directly against the body are external, things that...

(The same way the original innovators identified and used the skill in the first place. You can feel it!)

but you would still need someone to validate it, if your using the word internal as I did...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf0DNMElas8


it takes a lot of effort to reach a point where no effort is used. my point was in order to know if one is speaking of the same things one must first...

(It is technique over strength, and this is what is meant by internal over external power. The power is not some mystical effect of Chi, it is the coordinated use of mind and body used in the most...

(The body cannot move without the mind and the energy to power it, the mind and the energy and the will created out of that mind is the INTERNAL Strength that we are talking about. The end result or...

External Jing
External Jing is where the Jing is derived from the three external elements of musculature (jin), bones (gu) and skin (pi). This kind of jing is delivered through the exertion of the...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEB9dmmJU6A
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http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8784247348094164056&q=push+hands
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(The hardest part I find for most people trying to activate the CTS/Yin-Zhong-Yin system through reading is that the analytical process is mainly a conscious cerebral function; yet the true intention...

http://www.emptyflower.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=vids;action=display;num=1157108649

watch these clips.

(it is difficult not to apply excessive muscular involvement at this point, but it will diminish the CTS effect geometrically proportionate to the muscular involvement.. it's almost counter-intuitive...

(Previously, I relied on clever use of muscular and alignment techniques to manage physical situations)

I must commend you for still being open enough to development and recognizing something...

(I hope that wasn't too "off the wall".. once experienced, it makes perfect sense..)

For you it makes perfect sense, for me I still stand by what I said. A car, bag of rice or any other object has...

Nether a car or sack of rice has a mind, or sprit, they can not be pushed or bounced in the same way as what is being posted here.

(The people who fall for such BS probably should receive our pity because they obviously lack certain mental skills, but they should be taken out and flogged)

how are you any different from those...

ah but it does matter. Read some historical accounts of the yang family before saying this, or some of the other taiji masters, from other taiji family styles.

They were very careful to show that...