Harvesting centrifugal and centripetal forces in Taichichuan

Good morning. I just want to take a moment to talk about something that's not obvious to people often. When I'm making the turning movements in the Tai Chi Chuan form, I release the joints so that I can harvest the momentum made from the turn. So when I rotate, the body wants to throw something out. Right? Now, when you're moving so slow, these sensations are not apparent or obvious, so you have to kind of really soften up to even begin to feel them. But once you feel them, they make a change in your actions. So, for example, if I borrow Marcel here, and he's pushing me with his left hand, and I go to do this turn that's common in like most Tai Chi Chuan forms, is this turn people say, holding the ball.

So as he pushes straight through me, and I go like this, he's catching my tendons because I'm engaging my muscles and tendons to make the turn. But if I let the body be loose and let there be a momentum, it can grab him. In fact, the momentum makes this stick to him because it's opening as he's trying to control me. So he ends up closing on my opening and being stuck to me in the process. So again, if he pushes and I try to turn my tendons, he gets through to my joints and my feet and blows me out of my socks. But if he doesn't, I let this open, then I get that. And this happens here in the Tai Chi Chuan form. When I get on this arm, when he's here, I can't like turn him out, right? And I certainly can't put my mind in the hand that's touching his, because this is Yang energy and this is Yang. So there's no Tai Chi Yin and Yang interplay here.

Instead, I let this arm be Yin, this arm be Yang, and I rotate internally and I let that throw the arms out as he goes. But if I try to push against him, it's not happening. As soon as I do, he's into my feet. So now he's kind of aggravated, knowing that he's going to want to do this harder now because the chest is so tight. So as he does, I throw him. So this is something I'm trying to do in every movement. I'm sitting here and I'm harvesting the centrifugal force, but then there's also the centripetal force. So once I turn and this expands outward, I can then harvest the unstretching of the centripetal force, the centrifugal force, centripetal force, centrifugal force, and they just interplay throughout the movements. Now, in terms of centripetal, if he comes around over here and I'm making this turn, like I've made this turn to here and come over to there, come over to here. I've made this turn. Now he's there. I'm not going to do this and pull him back into me. What I am going to do is just leave the arm there as I open, open, and then harvest the stretch. When I make a turn and I gaze and I unstretch, the tongue quality of the tissue snatches him and pulls him in. Now, if we go back to test this, if I'm putting your arms here, so if I turn like this and I go to pull him back, he, you know, connects to me. It improves my whole posture, but if I turn and I open, I look down and I gaze, it won't snatch him back. Thank you, sir. I hope this is helpful.

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