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An Internal Strength Seminar · Feb 22, 08:20 PM

[ This was pulled from the middle of the previous post: a desperate attempt to make that last one a shorter read. —ed. ]

Mike has got 18 people, and Saturday is spent on the basics: up and down, towards and away, open and close. He talks about bringing jin (force) from the ground to the waist, and transmitting it through the upper body. He also talks a lot about martial qi (energy) and how to train it, and the spotlight role that fascia plays. There’s the take-home point that this stuff is down right basic, unlike anything we’ve done before (esp. if “we do that in our school” is your response), and you have to repattern your movement from scratch to be driven by the lower body.

He’s dissapointed that so many of us have been to his workshops before, yet obviously made no progress. At the start of class he went around and had us all push him. One person got a “nice”, a couple got “not bad”.

I hung out with Jesse, John, and a couple other kids afterwards. We played around on someones mat and talked like martial art geeks over dinner. Most people were Chen-style taiji players, but there were two kids who did Hakkoryu, a Japanese jujitsu derived from Daito-ryu.

On Sunday Mike focused on training methodology—glossing and emphasizing the material from Saturday—and covered the foundations of application.

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