Body Mechanics for power.

[sboydtaylor]

I've been noticing, with some help from my buddy Rant, that you can get significant gains in power by segmenting the body when you move it, letting the top coil and then the hips follow

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[qaexl]

I don't think that is missing -- I notice that in the circle walking and the changes. The change may be initiated from the legs, the middle, or the arms ... and some of the mother palms in Gao, I've noticed coiling initiated from the arms. (That is, the opponent moves, and those motions rides up through the point of contact in the arms and redirected in a change in footwork).

So far, I have found that letting the legs and hips coil first and expressing the wave outward to the hands more useful than the other way around, but then again I have not quite gotten any sort of skill in push hands, either.

-Q

[qaexl]

Oh never mind, you were saying you were missing it from bagua, not that bagua was missing it. Oops.

-Q

[sboydtaylor]

I've been coiling in the opposite order from that, too.

Maybe I am misremembering his instructions. That may be why I can't recreate it ;)

I'll talk to him some more, and I'll play around with it and see what I can learn.

[sboydtaylor]

No problem. Thanks for the feedback. :)

[qaexl]

By kempo, you mean the American Kempo or the Japanese Kenpo?

-Q

[sboydtaylor]

American Kempo.

I can't get the "coling upper body first" to work, so I probably just got muddled up when I was sleeping. Coling lower body first I have done a lot of, but I haven't practiced it on the bag enough. So I've started doing that.

[qaexl]

Bag is cool. I corrected a lot of mistakes from it (such as not properly rooting thus pushing myself backwards too). Just today at free-sparring, I found myself able to apply the coiling from fajin once a hand makes contact with the torso