Continuous stepping without stepping...

[iron_leg_dave]

Lien Bu like fast taiji.

Xiao Hu Yan like long fist Mantis.

Got it. I've heard so many versions over the years. I play all of my longfist forms in various ways, and one way that I like to play lien bu is like taiji.

Thanks!

Give it atleast a few months, then I'll post another go.

[Sal Canzonieri]

Got it. I've heard so many versions over the years. I play all of my longfist forms in various ways, and one way that I like to play lien bu is like taiji.

Thanks!

Give it atleast a few months, then I'll post another go.

By the way, most people's opening movement posture is incorrect. That's a 20th century way it was changed.

You don't really make your arms parallel to each other and the floor, instead you angle your elbows down so that it looks like you are holding a large ball.

[iron_leg_dave]

By the way, most people's opening movement posture is incorrect. That's a 20th century way it was changed.

You don't really make your arms parallel to each other and the floor, instead you angle your elbows down so that it looks like you are holding a large ball.

That is exactly how I do it.

Actually, that is what first initiated me tying my longfist into my taiji. I took ball holding in the first form as a subtle hint.

[Sal Canzonieri]

That is exactly how I do it.

Actually, that is what first initiated me tying my longfist into my taiji. I took ball holding in the first form as a subtle hint.

Taji is long fist.

[iron_leg_dave]

Taji is long fist.

That it is, and what brought me to that realization, later confirmed for me in an article by Adam Hsu, was that very posture in Lien Bu.

[Sal Canzonieri]

That it is, and what brought me to that realization, later confirmed for me in an article by Adam Hsu, was that very posture in Lien Bu.

http://www.bgtent.com/naturalcma/CMAarticle30.htm

http://www.bgtent.com/naturalcma/CMA...risonChart.htm

[iron_leg_dave]

http://www.bgtent.com/naturalcma/CMAarticle30.htm

http://www.bgtent.com/naturalcma/CMA...risonChart.htm

Very cool!