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Step up. Okay. Okay. so overall, your foot is off. On the line. so when you guys train by yourself. you have to draw lines on the floor, or find points of reference. The. just stop. so we must, only, for Yilu, we must be very, very strict, that Yilu is this way. and then you put a point of reference. all this is a reference point.

All your movements are here. and then here, back. here, and then occasionally you venture out, either here or here or here.  Can you see? I use here to denote, wasn’t inaccurate, 45 degrees, if you have anything here, use the point of reference is still 45 degrees.

They are all the same.  And on this side here. 45. so they must all be like this. so these are all the moves.  But this is. according to our form, but if you extract that and don’t draw like that, all we do is here. bad drawing should stop the same here.  It means your guiding direction is the cross. north, south, east, west.

your small moves are always on the 45 degrees, and that’s called the cardinal and diagonal. you cannot have anything else.  Our problem in Yilu, Cannon fist is different. so now you understand? so when this is here, this has to be here.  And the only off is we are almost there, but it looks different.  But you cannot be like this. go.

Okay. Stop. Okay. see all those moves. Bigger. come back to white crane. Go, Stop. this is big. You feel that?  Stop, relax. feel that? Mhm. now tell me how you feel, what you feel. Stretched. to what extent?  Well, shoulders pulling apart. yeah, yeah.

you are right, but the key is not that, the key that I am pulling you so hard that you can feel I pulled into here. if this is not being pulled, you have not stretched. because now see? touch me here. and look at here. so these are called movements, but this is not a movement. because you have further extended.

so whenever something is stretched to its limit, we call that a rotation. so this part. you must remember. so now. come closer. I’ll show you. what a rotation is, I’ve defined rotation 20 other different ways. they all end up being the same, different ways of.

Because you’re. when you are doing Taiji, when later on you do applications, the occasion that specific case does not allow you to do a perfect mechanical rotation. you have to do things in a way that, in the end, it’s a rotation. so this is the core. the axis. and this is the line. and if this is the limit.

it always, you guys always use a permanent, well, this is a whiteboard marker. but why does not, does it not. so this is one line, and this is your limit where it should be. so whenever you move like this here. it looks like this. it’s not a rotation. again, bad drawing but the idea is it’s not. what is the rotation.  This is fixed when this reaches here, it’s a rotation.

can you understand? in this case, the rotation is defined as. I’ll write down the Chinese are translated. because otherwise, sometimes I lose everything in my head. rotation is defined in this Chinese concept as when something goes to extreme. when something goes to its extreme, it reverses itself.

so when it goes to here. it is almost about it, but you stretch it without movement anywhere a little bit more.  By the time it is here, it will never continue to go straight anymore.  From this point here, it has no more to go. It will start, the whole thing will start to go like this.

so, the next one. it has to go here. the next one, it has to go here. so do you understand? some of you. if you had that mechanical background, so rotation, this is very, very crucial to our taiji. ok? watch. Here. you always push. Peter, come here. you put your finger here. and just put it there, like this. and no, just put there.  Don’t fight me.  Put it there. you always push, because this is the dot. and it extends here. and when I go here. you always move like this, that’s why you are always confrontational. what you do is he’s there, I don’t care.

I stretch. When I stretched to his limit, That stretch, the rod has no room for any further move, but I have pressure stretching it.  That pressure has to go somewhere.  But this is the end.  There is a wall. let’s say this is the strongest material on earth. it’s a wall, but this is still expanding. where it expands, where does it go?

it has to go sideways. and that once has, at the very beginning of your move, it’s straight, in the end, that straight goes to its extreme.  It has to start going sideways. and when it starts to go sideways, very likely, the action is that it only went sideways one millionth of a unit, whatever measurement. and then it stops, then you continue to give it a pressure to stretch. and the material cannot stretch longer.  It actually warps sideways.

Now, the word is, that process is not a rotation.  It’s because the expansion of the lines that has nowhere to go is starts to warp sideways. and then another little warp sideways, many, many of them put together.  It’s a rotation.  This rotation is another million times stronger than a rotation. it’s a wharpping action.

the warping action by Einstein’s time was the biggest action. that that action is so big, it can swallow time. rotation is so big, it’s better than anything straight. but that warping is even better than this rotation. now, do you understand?  So this is a simple rotation.

Can you see? so now the guys, the more advanced to guys, you know, when you push hands with me, I produce a very strange feeling on you, is because I pretend to rotate that will meet with your resistance. when that happens, I will go until you are strong I am strong, I go stretch, when I stretch, you bounce out. so now you understand? so I try to tell you. when you go like this, you are doing a simple version of a rotation, which is not only simple, it’s quite flawed.  That’s ok, because we’re just learning the moves.  Once you learn the moves, see you cannot go like this.

Why? now use another term, because when you go like this. it’s possible that your size became smaller. rotational forces were only, produce centrifugal force, which does not become small. so now, can you see that now? stretched to the extreme until you feel you truly tore yourself apart into two pieces. so you go home when you tear yourself into two pieces, I think will congratulate you. white crane. yeah, now, continue with that. Ah, that’s it.  It’s not that difficult, right?  But this one same thing you have to, it is so big, it goes to the other side.  So this is called going over.

上步。好。好。总体而言，你的脚不在线。在线上。当你们自己训练的时候必须在地板上画线，或找到参考点。停下来。对于一路，我们必须非常非常严格，以确保一路是这种方式。然后你放一个参考点。所有这些都是参考点。所有动作都在这里。然后在这里在这里，然后偶尔在这里，这里或这里。你能看到吗？能明白吗？我用这里来表示，45度，不是准确的，如果你在这里有什么，参考点仍然是45度。

他们都是一样的。而在这边。45。所以他们必须都是这样。这些是所有的动作。但这是。根据我们的套路，但是如果提取它不那样画，那么我们要做的就是这里。画的不好。应都在这个点上。这意味着你的指导方向是个十字。北，南，东，西。小动作始终保持45度，这就是基数和对角线。你别无其他。我们在一路的问题，炮捶是不同的。所以现在你明白了吗？所以当这是这里时，必须在这里。唯一不在时是我们快到了，但是看起来却不一样。但是你不能这样。走。

好的。停。好的。所有这些动作。大一些。回到白鹤亮翅。走，停，这是大，你感觉到吗？停下来，放松。感觉到？嗯现在告诉我你的感觉，你的感觉到什么。拉伸。到什么程度？就是，肩膀拉开了。是。

你是对的，但关键不是那个，关键是我用力拉你，以至于你感到你这里被拉到了。如果没有拉到这里，则表示你尚未伸展。现在看到了？在这里碰我。看看这里。这些都是动，但这不是运。你进一步伸展了。只要某物拉伸到极限，我们就称其为旋转。所以这部分。你必须记住。所以现在。靠近点。我会给你看。什么是旋转，我已经用过20种不同的方式定义了旋转。它们最终都是一样的，不同的方式。

因为，当你练太极拳时，稍后再进行推手时，由于特定情况你无法完成完美的机械旋转。最后，必须以一种方式来做，最后，是旋转。所以这是核心。轴。这是线。如果这是极限。一直，你们总是使用永久性的，嗯，这是白板笔。但是为什么不呢？所以这是一条线，这是你应该达到的极限。所以每当你这样动时，看起来像这样。这不是转。再次，画的不好，但意思是这不是（旋转）。什么是旋转？当到达此处时，它是定住的，这是旋转。

你能明白吗？在这种情况下，旋转定义为。我把中文翻译写下来。否则，有时候我会忘了。在这种中国概念中，旋转被定义为当事情到达极限时，当事情到达极限时，它就会逆转。所以当它到这里。它几乎快到了的，但是你可以在不动的情况下再拉伸一点，到这里的时候，它将无法继续走直线。从这个点，它没地方去了。它会开始，整个会像这样走。

所以，下一个。它必须去这里。下一个，它必须去这里。这样你懂吗？你们中的一些。如果有机械背景，那么旋转，这对我们的太极拳非常重要。好吧？看。这里。你总是推。彼得，过来。你把手指放在这里。像这样放在那里，不，只是放在那儿。不要推我，放在那里。你们总是推。因为这是点，它延伸到这里。当我去这里的时候你们总是这样动，这就是为什么你们总是在较劲。你要做的是，他在那儿，我不在乎。

我拉伸。当我拉伸到他的极限时，那个拉伸，轴没有任何进一步移动的空间，但是我有压力继续拉伸它。这种压力必须到某个地方。但这就到头了。有墙。假设这是地球上最坚固的材料。这是一堵墙，但是它还在伸展。它伸展到哪里？到哪里去？它必须往边上走。动作最初是直线，到最后，直线到了极限。它只能开始往边上走。当它开始往边上走时，很可能的，无论尺寸如何，它只会向一个单位的百万分之一的侧边走。然后它停止，然后你继续给它施加拉伸的压力。然后材料不能再拉长了。实际上，它会向侧边弯曲。

现在的意思是，该过程不是旋转。这是因为无处可去的线的扩张开始向侧边弯曲。然后又有一个小小的弯曲，很多很多都放在一起了。这是旋转。这种旋转又是比旋转更强大一百万倍。这是一个弯曲动作。爱因斯坦时代的弯曲动作是最大的动作。那个动作是如此之大，它会吞噬时间。旋转是如此之大，胜过任何直线的运动。但这种弯曲甚至比这种旋转更好。现在，了解了吗？所以这是一个简单的旋转。

你能看到？所以现在，水平稍高一点的同学，当你和我推手时，我会让你产生一种非常奇怪的感觉，是因为我假装旋转，遇到你的阻力。这个时候，我会继续到你用力为止，我也用力，我会拉伸，当我拉伸时，你就会被弹出去。所以现在你明白了吗？我想告诉你。当你这样做动作时，你正在做一个简单的旋转版本，它不仅简单，而且存在很多缺陷。没关系，因为我们只是在学习动作。学习了动作之后，就不能再这样了。

为什么？现在使用另一个术语，因为当你这样做时。你的尺寸可能会变小。旋转力只产生离心力，是不会变小的。所以现在，你现在可以看到吗？一直拉伸到极限，直到你真正感觉到自己将自己撕成两半。所以当你回家把自己撕成两半时，我会祝贺你的。白鹤亮翅。是的，现在继续。嗯，就是这样。这不是那么困难，对吧？但是，这里也是一样的，它是如此之大，以至于它到了另一边。这就是“过去”。