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Old 06-27-2007, 07:15 AM   #6
Haowen Chan
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Re: My first glimpse of internal power

Thanks Timothy for the info.

I tried taking up the wuji stance on my own but immediately I had many doubts like how far to tuck the tailbone in, what angle my upper torso should be relative to the hips, etc. I guess one really does need an instructor.

One question: just to confirm, are you actually supposed to feel tension in the quads? Commonly in the literature we are exhorted to feel no tension at all in the big muscles that we can control (I'd certainly think the quads are one of those), and the body is automagically supported like on giant balloons... after a bit of this one starts getting sore in muscles that "we didn't know we had" like you said. So I'm a bit confused when you said to hold the quads.

EDIT: Maybe it's something specific to your particular stance which I've never seen before.

Last edited by Haowen Chan : 06-27-2007 at 07:30 AM.
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