Ah ha moment, light bulb, I see said the blind man, plain as the nose on my face. All of the above are true thanks to our brown belt class meeting yesterday. What am I talking about? If you where at the meeting, you would know, if not, well.....
Da Mu Hsing, I was having a conflict internally with one of the moves, it didn't "feel" like I wanted it too, and because of the meeting, I now know why. Please excuse my terminology, this is what I am seeing in my mind as I describe this.
So right after the back fist, we have the grab/shoulder take down toss. This felt very weak, not powerful at all, why?! As with everything else in a form, stance stance stance is soooo important. The thing is, it was my stance from 3 moves prior that was causing the problem, it had just snowballed through the form to this point, picking up bad mojo as it went. Turns out my cross step into an open X/shoulder chop was way to shallow, which in turn, when I unwound into my back fist/horse stance was also to shallow, which in turn, made my grab/toss into a pushed in horse stance way to shallow. Snowballllll !! All Master Brinker had to say was one word, horse stance, and my stuck wheel gained traction, bing, light bulb. Why was my pushed in horse stance crappy, because my prior horse stance was crappy, why, because my prior open X was crappy. So lengthen my open X, deepen my horse stance and voila, proper pushed in horse for the shoulder toss! So easy to fix, if only I had known where to look. Oh, hang on, I do know where to look, to our instructors!
If I had ever needed a reason to want to be at every meeting possible, this just provided the answer. One word from my instructor and my problem is figured out. One word!
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