Expansion - contraction. Push - pull. We talked about this in Saturdays Brown Belt class. I can tell this is a conversation that has layer upon layer, and we just scratched the surface. So I will give my cursory take on this.
My Chi bubble, my power zone, my limit of useful power delivery of my intent. This is where I am placing this concept to work on.
Expansion, if I expand to far, I am reaching, off balance, no center, past my power zone. Contraction, if I contract to far, I am hunching up, loosing my skeletal support in favor of muscle, collapsing my power zone beyond the useful.
I have attached a video to show something so simple. It actually took several takes to get this to work, why, because if we opened it to far, it was hard to close and if we closed it to far, it was hard to open. Kody had to be smooth and limit his range of open and close or it got stuck. Just like me and my power zone. Who would have thought that a kids toy at a Kung Fu training hall would have such a direct application to something so deep? Well I'll let you guess who.
Now for push - pull. This is still a cauldron of bubbling onion soup. I have tried various forms with the idea of analyzing whether I am pushing my intent or pulling my intent. This is a can of angry worms. Just by changing one move from push to pull or vice versa changes the next move or two to support that move. It can change the entire intent of my form. I will need a decade or two to play with this as the more I change my push -pull intent, the more questions it creates about my intent. And then I have to also think about how expansion and contraction relates to this as well. Good stuff.
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