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Old 08-27-2010, 05:29 PM   #14
David Orange
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Re: Yin-Yang and Store-and-Release and Hara

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Josh Philipson wrote: View Post
Budd, what should you have done...say....other than run??
I think Mike Sigman has explained that this is the source of the "hopping" kind of exit a lot of tai chi people make from push-hands encounters. If you ground that kind of force, it can seriously hurt you, but if you "hop" back from it, you don't take it all into your body. And then, of course, from there, the "hopping" evolves into the crazy gyrations you see in some of the goofier demoes available on YouTube or wherever CMA is "sold".


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