Martial Application

Delivering their head to your fist /palm

don't push, express intention

Capturing my opponent by his facia with a circle, and causing him to collide with my counter punch 

Coil in to coil out, using facia in seizing skill 

The harmonization of Yin and Yang  between two practitioners 

Harvesting centrifugal and centripetal forces in Taichichuan

Clearly differentiate , substantial and insubstantial

The palm changes on the way

The palm changes on the way I first endeavor to touch my opponent with my fingertips, and then the middle of the palm, and then finally the heel of the palm. This is often referred to as seating the palm. If I raise the fingertips up at the wrong time, it allows my opponent to easily sweep my hand aside , but when I keep the wrists rounded and the fingertips triangulating on my opponent, the arms act as a shield or a ward off and hold my opponents countering force at bay until I enter in and seat the palm. This method is almost lost by modern practitioners. Thanks for watching! If you like what you saw, there’s a link below to my online course! It’s packed with over a year’s worth of lessons based on my 30+ years of teaching. Come learn the forms and exercises I’ve used to boost my health, hone my martial skills, and pass on the knowledge to my students. Zhong Ding Healing Arts | Zhong Ding Tai Chi Chuan

Drawing your opponent in at the contact point

Drawing your opponent in at the contact point When you touch your opponent and press on them, they will , on an unconscious level , respond to that force. The two most common responses are to run from the force, or to push back . When they push back in an effort to fight with you , you can do a very small rollback at the point of contact, breaking their structure and making their weight fall into their hands . People tend to reach out when they lose their balance, and when they reach out into your posture, this makes for a good solid connection with which to issue force on them. If you look carefully, you will notice that my hands circle back slightly before issuing forward to create this environment. Thanks for watching! If you like what you saw, there’s a link below to my online course! It’s packed with over a year’s worth of lessons based on my 30+ years of teaching. Come learn the forms and exercises I’ve used to boost my health, hone my martial skills, and pass on the knowledge to my students. Zhong Ding Healing Arts | Zhong Ding Tai Chi Chuan

Send them out, then pull them back in

Send them out, then pull them back in In combat, you might send someone out breaking their balance, and then pull them back into a strike increasing the power of a strike. I pulled him back in in this instance to prevent him from crashing into my counter, but this is something that you want to cultivate Thanks for watching! If you like what you saw, there’s a link below to my online course! It’s packed with over a year’s worth of lessons based on my 30+ years of teaching. Come learn the forms and exercises I’ve used to boost my health, hone my martial skills, and pass on the knowledge to my students. Zhong Ding Healing Arts | Zhong Ding Tai Chi Chuan

Send them out, then pull them back in

Send them out, then pull them back in In combat, you might send someone out breaking their balance, and then pull them back in to a strike increasing the power of a strike. I pulled him back in in this instance to prevent him from crashing into my counter, but this is something that you want to cultivate Thanks for watching! If you like what you saw, there’s a link below to my online course! It’s packed with over a year’s worth of lessons based on my 30+ years of teaching. Come learn the forms and exercises I’ve used to boost my health, hone my martial skills, and pass on the knowledge to my students. Zhong Ding Healing Arts | Zhong Ding Tai Chi Chuan

Using asking Jin and emptiness to make my opponent fall into my connection.

Using asking Jin and emptiness to make my opponent fall into my connection. When you touch a person, they usually either push back, runaway , or stay still. When they do this, it's usually on a very unconscious level. They don't typically notice that they are doing it. The movement is so small that they usually cannot detect it but their subconscious mind will typically go back to center after moving out of center to achieve balance , When my partner does this , I yield, causing him to fall into my touch and into my root where I can then issue force on him. Thanks for watching! If you like what you saw, there’s a link below to my online course! It’s packed with over a year’s worth of lessons based on my 30+ years of teaching. Come learn the forms and exercises I’ve used to boost my health, hone my martial skills, and pass on the knowledge to my students. Zhong Ding Healing Arts | Zhong Ding Tai Chi Chuan

Using asking Jin and emptiness to make my opponent fall into my connection.

Using asking Jin and emptiness to make my opponent fall into my connection. When you touch a person, they usually either push back, runaway , or stay still. When they do this, it's usually on a very unconscious level. They don't typically notice that they are doing it. The movement is so small that they usually cannot detect it but their subconscious mind will typically go back to center after moving out of center to achieve balance , When my partner does this , I yield, causing him to fall into my touch and into my root where I can then issue force on him. Thanks for watching! If you like what you saw, there’s a link below to my online course! It’s packed with over a year’s worth of lessons based on my 30+ years of teaching. Come learn the forms and exercises I’ve used to boost my health, hone my martial skills, and pass on the knowledge to my students. Zhong Ding Healing Arts | Zhong Ding Tai Chi Chuan