The POWER of Yin and Yang

And I started to look at it through the lens of yin and yang. And there's a lot of wild things relative to that. So, if he gives me something like this to push on, and I do like brush knee and twist that. If I try to push him out with my right hand, like it just pushes me back. Yang and yang, double yang, no tai chi. So, I touch this light, I just let it touch there and like drape from his hand. So, he takes his hand away.

That's what I'm doing. So, I'm touching him. I'm draping it on there and letting this contact keep it held up. And and so, it's hanging straight between these two points. Then I put my intent on brushing my knee, which is the name of the posture. Nudge, nudge, say no more. And when I brush my knee, it creates a power out of this arm. I couldn't begin to push you before. Like it was like no way. Now, we'll do it again.

And push back now through it as I push, and he pushes back through. He pushed me out. He pushes back through. And poof. So, all I did was change the yin and the yang. Now, in brush knee, this action here. Grab my arm with both hands like a baseball bat. So, if I go to gaze right, utilizing my right arm, I'm trying to do that move, it doesn't work. So, I give him this. So, this is yang. My arm is yin.

So, we got tai chi going on here. What's going on in the rest of the body? Well, you let go your my arm a second. When I I do this movement in the form, there's a bunch of parts of my body that move all at once. I can't move this part cuz he's holding it. And I don't try to fight him. I just give it to him. The whole arm. But I know if he goes to pull me, I don't give him my ground point, right? So, when he's holding me, instead of putting my mind in this hand that's being held, I put it in the other hand and I do the movement as if my arm is not held. So, I just go, oh, and I turn to do the movement. And that like lifted him up a little bit somehow cuz like like I'm weak as a kitten, dude. Like if you I couldn't lift your body weight in a curl.

But that basically every part of my body did this except this one arm. And those parts made that work, but it's because I changed this to the end where I needed to and then I could do stuff. See? [laughter] Otherwise, I get in a fight. So, I don't meet force with force. I meet it with softness. It's mathematical. You can play games with this. I'm giving you some examples of some things, but the depth of it has no limitation.

So, let's take Ma Yueh-liang and Huang Sheng-Shuan. They're doing push hands with an opponent, right?

Ma Yueh-liang Huang Sheng-Shuan are always smiling. They're matching his aggression with non-aggression. They're matching his hate with love. They're matching it and not mirroring it, so it's anger and anger and double yang, strength and strength. So, when you see Ma Yueh-liang smiling, it allows the chi to descend through your face as your first of all, but secondly, it's because he's not mentally even considering being in conflict with you in any way.

Even if it was for money. Like you do not engage in that way. And that is pure mathematics applied to movement. Thank you.