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I only get to spar or play rou shou twice a week at best these days; so I thought I'd get in touch with a guy that I used to practice with. We had discussed getting a group together to work on things. He knows some guys who have a pretty mixed background and would be into trying something new.

One thing I would like to get back to on a more...

Just a short entry today. Just to help me remember what a great practice I had today. The centre dominates my movements and I am using contraction and expansion with centripetal and centrafugal forces. The footwork too is controlled almost entirely by use of the centre, with an accent on stepping into the void as I call it; meaning finding the...

Todays practice was spent mostly on working with the falling step method I picked up from the Snake sequence of Lung Ta.

A natural out-growth of the Yin quality is to discover that by learning to "fall" into a posture or movement one can release quite a substantial amount of force. A good explanation of this principle is to imagine...

Yesterdays practice was short but sweet. I went outside in the yard and worked on some Bagua. In terms of training for a comp, something struck me as very important. It was to clearly define what I needed to work on based on the stratergy I am going to pursue. This means being clear on how I expect to win a match? and honing the necessary...

I was going to write something about stillness in motion today, but I realized that I don't have an enormous amount of time on my hands and what I want to put down would take some time to formulate. So I'll have to wait till I'm not in the grip of time poverty.

Instead, I came up with an idea last niight while thinking about the...