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    Let it go...

    Let it go...
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    I was in the neighborhood....

    I was in the neighborhood....
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    Not Wah Lum, except the arm movement in the...

    Not Wah Lum, except the arm movement in the breathing section.

    Flavor is more like the 'Roads' of Tam Tui.
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    Isn't that the taste of trite?

    Isn't that the taste of trite?
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    Ghost in the Machine Yeah, I don't disagree....

    Ghost in the Machine

    Yeah, I don't disagree.
    Could be just the word biomechanics that has a machine-like ring to it...purely semantics.
    My point is that in cases above, and also found in some...
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    The 'Internal' is more than a way of practice,...

    The 'Internal' is more than a way of practice, and one finds its metaphorical description in Western athletics also, as in the following passage:

    Athletes call flow experience being in the "zone"...
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    Best ratio of pulling to pressing upper body...

    Best ratio of pulling to pressing upper body exercises for MA = 2 to 1
    Add Chins variations
    Inverted row variations
    DB row variations
    Cable pull variations

    Core anti-extension
    Core...
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    To me Internal MA places an emphasis on feeling,...

    To me Internal MA places an emphasis on feeling, on a refinement of proprioceptive ability over action.
    People who laugh at the Internal (and there is no doubt plenty of blowhards to be laughed...
  9. Hi KJW, "Hip popping", could be O.K.. Hip...

    Hi KJW,

    "Hip popping", could be O.K.. Hip "grinding", Not O.K..
    People's hip structure varies, person to person. People who drop into splits with ease prove nothing beyond what they can do...
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    TGY...delayed Reply

    Originally Posted by taai gihk yahn
    as regards standing practice being the key to internal:

    I personally believe that standing practice is of great benefit, for numerous reasons; based on my own...
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    Best is if you can place it in the middle of the...

    Best is if you can place it in the middle of the North wall, facing South. That way the faces of the ancestors are 'warmed' by the southern energy.
    Second best would be East wall facing West.
    Worst...
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    Well, I am trying to recall a time long, long...

    Well, I am trying to recall a time long, long ago...

    Could be I'm mixing you up with someone else....like maybe....

    Naah!

    It's definitely Yu, thinner with darker hair, nailing it on the...
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    Yu, I always thought you did it O.K...... ...

    Yu,

    I always thought you did it O.K......

    :);)
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    All you have to do is sit in on a 'case meeting'...

    All you have to do is sit in on a 'case meeting' in the local asylum, listen to the doctors, interns, therapists, and other minders, watch their behaviors, cherck out their general state of health,...
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    Chazmek Sorry if that seemed flip. It all...

    Chazmek
    Sorry if that seemed flip. It all depends on how good you are on 'absorbing'. If you can really do it, than you must pick a healthy tree, not just any based on that you 'like' it. Think of...
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    Taryn P. The use of any willow species should be...

    Taryn P.
    The use of any willow species should be tempered with the knowledge of the serious problems that exist in the form of diseases, insects, nematodes and aggressive root systems. Some of the...
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    of course once you start opening yourself up to...

    of course once you start opening yourself up to 'absorbing chi' from other forms of life, you have a big problem...

    willow trees
    poison ivy
    kudzu
    fungi of various kinds
    swamps
    low places...
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    Best trees for healing are often evergreens, they...

    Best trees for healing are often evergreens, they 'know' more about 'holding' their chi since they don't lose their leaves like the deciduous trees do. Best age for healing in trees is the adolescent...
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    Yeah, one sees this on the highway all the time....

    Yeah, one sees this on the highway all the time. Person in the inside lane sees oncoming overtaking traffic in his outside mirror and 'unconciously' pulls the wheel slightly in that...
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    The stretching loosens the hip flexors and...

    The stretching loosens the hip flexors and hamstrings, allowing the leg to be brought up while the torso leans slightly back. Taking an extra step after the turn means everything happens on the other...
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    The movement is basically the same as being in a...

    The movement is basically the same as being in a split, turn body to left, put chest on thigh...so that's how you train it. Also see Hurdler's Stretch...when you can get your torso against your front...
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    They got no ground game!:D

    They got no ground game!:D
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    Hi Madhusudan, i take the olympic bar with a 25...

    Hi Madhusudan,
    i take the olympic bar with a 25 plate on each end and do these uninterupted:
    Hang clean into
    Front squat stand up into
    Press lower the bar onto shoulders...
  24. Don't worry about it. You'll forget soon...

    Don't worry about it.
    You'll forget soon enough.:(
  25. So as you watch her perform you see no: "set of...

    So as you watch her perform you see no:
    "set of structural alignments that allow proper power and force to be issued with maximum effectiveness"
    It's just "wush" in your learned mind, must have "NO...
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