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Welcome my friend.

Touche

I think it’s differentiated from explosive energy in that explosive energy is how much force you can generate in a short burst, where as shocking energy is more like when you talk about how quick you can turn it off. So in a way you can’t have shocking energy without explosive energy, but explosive energy that isn’t turned off quickly is not…[Read more]

Never a problem! 🙂

Hope that helped.

cool.

‘oh aye that’s what I get for posting at 1am’ LOL 🙂 Brilliant.

From what you are saying, sounds just like explosive energy to me, so you’re on the right track.

Thank you for the kind response Sifu. It is so good to hear you’re on holiday. I must have missed that update.

I do apologize for interrupting and of course am deeply grateful for your response.

Thank you. Enjoy your holiday!!!! 😀😀😀

I’ve actually put together a “sport medicine” kit, consisting of a small phial of Dit Da Jow (apparently a formula designed by Leung Jan), a bottle of Yunnan Baiyao, and a pouch of 10 40x.20 spring-handled needles

just in case someone gets injured or pulls a muscle in a class

oh aye that’s what I get for posting at 1am

from what I can gather of geng ging, it magnifies the effects of most techniques, helping to disrupt balance and inflict penetrating trauma, as well as allowing a practitioner to rapidly change directions and chain techniques. Most Hakkanese arts train its use in all directions, whereas apparently most…[Read more]

Hi Tom,

Of course the phrase is:

“As soon as you USE it, lose it” and is a phrase I use rather than Sifu, but I must admit, the idea of Shocking Power sounds perfectly in tune with what I am getting at, as this is the effect it will have.

Sifu

Hi Nick,

If you remember, I am on holiday at the moment, but the up/down progression was as so (oh and with turns makes much more sense)

die bong
tan
bong
biu
–
jeng
kau
high garn
low garn

Hope that helps?

Thank you! 🙂

Hi Lee,

I’m jumping in at this point because as soon as I read…

‘I feel comfortable in all area but not overly as I do get hit.’

This made me think of a common issue… If you are doing everything you think you should be doing, think about the attack, sometimes it is your partner who may be sneaking something else in that goes against what…[Read more]

Hi Sifu, Nick

I haven’t finished thinking about it in all fairness, not that a response from me was needed.

We need to take responsibility for our own actions being the bit I’m thinking about. In general and in practice.

Being able to pair it up with empirical knowledge of failures when chi sau ing or doc sau is the difficult part. The que…[Read more]

Thanks for the kinds words Seth. I truly appreciate it!!

Wow! This looks like a fantastic read. I will come back and do so as soon as I can!!

Thanks Lee. Thanks Sifu!