Lin-Wu.
1.) It will take some time and hard work.
2.) If your stance/weight shift is correct you should only have the discomfort of muscles unused to that pose, which should be gone by now.
3.) You don't resist you re-direct the incoming force via the waist & feet to the ground.
4.) Relax the mind and the body will follow. Stop worrying and listen to what your body tells you, but at the same time don't over-analyse that feed-back.
Overall I would assume that you are tense all over and that your weight-shifting & breathing is not fine-tuned yet.
Could also be that you are trying to force a too low-stance(copy your Sifu & elders stances), we are told dropping the stance by a bit over 1 inch a year is good progress.
My Sensei always sez we need to "cultivate" the pyramid in Tai Chi. All the weight and base at the bottem the top needs to be empty.
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It is tough to retain the correct level of Song(Fang Song in our case).
Sifu used to tell e to fix my stepping, so I concentrated on the stepping and my chest got tense "Big yell, don't tense chest."
Sometimes feels like you can't win.
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Hope this helps.
Last edited by Laughing Cow; 09-17-2003 at 04:32 PM.
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