星期三的棵

Class went well, taught the intended lesson of head moving and followed it up with movement reading techniques examining peoples balance before they move. It went well, I also looked at peoples balance when they attack from various styles. 白 龍 has a desire for balance to be centered. This means that when we take a stance we aim to have our head straight. Other styles tend to have the head held in a froward position, Muai Tai for example. Also when someone in the street is fighting, they tend to adopt a boxing type position which also has the head quite forward.
This usually means that they want to attack, rather than counter attack, or at least move toward you fast and hard. Their weight is already moving forward and they are pushing out their forehead which is the hardest part of the head as a defense against getting hit in the face, straight forward is their most likely route to attack. Also it can be seen that they are most likely going to want to punch you, as their shoulders will be slightly forward and their feet are going to be slower (back leg will be the fastest to attack as front leg will be holding their balance and it has a fair distance to cover). There may be other reasons for these things, but their balance will be affected the same by the head shifting forward.
With this in mind we also looked at ways that we can move to make them over commit to their attacks and also ways we can move to negate them. We also looked at the strengths of the stances and positions as to understand when they would be most useful.
Once we had done that we looked at how to move in without signaling or minimising the signals we give, as well as through attacks that go around the easier/most likely blocks. Then how to cover greater area with out blocks without slowing the time it takes to do them.
In the end this part of the class took about 105 minutes. Then we did some for work also looking at the way in which we change our balance. It was a good class, and I hope the 兄弟 put it into practice.

Tea of the lesson was Long Jing.