| 1. While polishing your technique you should | | | | slightest push would overturn the weeble |
| never stick out your chest or stomach either | | | | wobble. |
| when fighting or practicing. It stiffens your | | | | |
| body and makes your movements awkward. As a | | | | 5. The hand is rounded in elbow and wrist. |
| result, you are losing control over your | | | | |
| body. While practicing always make sure to | | | | 6. Practicing, always make sure to perform |
| keep your back bent outward and chest | | | | movements correctly. Otherwise, you would get |
| incurved. This is the right sign to | | | | bad habits, which is rather harmful than |
| distinguish between Kung Fu masters and Kung | | | | advantageous. Mastering new techniques, you |
| Fu athletes. | | | | should always act without haste; only when |
| | | | you have repeated movements correctly many |
| 2. Despite the fact that the back should be a | | | | times, you can consider increasing speed and |
| bit bent outward, you have to maintain the | | | | strength. |
| body centrality; by no means should the body | | | | |
| be bent too much. Otherwise it will lose the | | | | 7. It is not good performing already learnt |
| balance, which can result in loss of | | | | techniques with negligence, so-so, since it |
| equilibrium and steadiness, and make the | | | | is hardly of any use. Performing already |
| outgoing energy weak. The back and pelvis | | | | mastered techniques you need to fully use |
| must be in the same plane. | | | | your consciousness, i.e., using consciousness |
| | | | (Yi) send your energy Qi to the section of |
| 3. Bending your head down in fight is like | | | | the body engaged in this technique. For |
| blindfolding yourself, since with your head | | | | example, kicking with your heel the moment |
| down you cannot fully control all the actions | | | | the heel touches the enemy (target) you need |
| of your enemy. Moreover, it can lead you to | | | | to fully focus on throwing the energy through |
| losing the balance. | | | | the heel. |
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| 4. During the fight, your waist should be | | | | 8. Inside yourself, you should work out your |
| down. If it is not, it makes Qi to go upward | | | | mind, spirit, consciousness and Qi until they |
| and accumulate in the chest. This | | | | join together. Only when this happens you |
| accumulation of Qi in the chest causes you to | | | | will be able to send your Qi anywhere at your |
| lose the steadiness; your movements will | | | | wish. |
| immediately become clumsy and awkward. A man | | | | |
| with his Qi in lower Dan Tian can be compared | | | | 9. The key to mastering is in everyday work |
| to a weeble wobble, since it is virtually | | | | at the thing neither master not disciple can |
| impossible to throw him down on the ground. | | | | do without, namely polishing the basic |
| Now, consider moving the load in the lower | | | | technique. |
| part of the weeble wobble upward; the | | | | |