michael young's blog

Sifu told me a while back that the purpose of the throwing hands training was to teach us about the completeness of the moment. Well, my brain melted and I had no idea what the meant. He asked, "Does that make sense?" I replied, while my mind was stupified, "Yeah, yeah." LOL NOT! But, I have been thinking on this and I found that in each movement I am also carrying the tension of the previous moment into that movement. Or, I am anticipating and becmoing tense in another unecessary way.

So, apparently I have been training incorrectly since I began... Due to my previous training, i was used to using my intent to will fully lead my chi. In other words i focused on a certain action or direction to move in order to PUT my chi there. I thought this was the right way, but Sifu had said from the first lesson that we set up the conditions and the chi knows what to do.