Martial Applications - Advanced

Applications associated with the Yang 40 forms will be taught with an emphasis on:

Intent

Sense of enemy

Flow and direction of the energy

Wu wo (not me)

Ting jin (listening)

Dong jin (understanding)

Advanced stepping and leg techiniques

Introducion of the last four essential energies

Practical offensive and defensive execution of the eight essential energies plus the Yang family secrects for each energy

Advanced trapping

Chin na and Shuai Jiao applications found within the 40 forms will be interpreted and practiced in order to enhance the students understanding of each form.

Practical Chin na for self defense (finger, wrist, elbow and neck techniques)

Quote of the Week

"Second is mindfulness of feelings, it is at this stage that we work with the chi or fine material energy. The chi is most easily perceived through feelings and this path of practice helps one to bypass the common pitfall of relying on imagination and visualization of the internal energy as this can quickly become a fabricated fantasy rather than a direct knowing of reality in the present."

~Sifu Adam Mizner