Qigong; Seven Stars Point to Moon; Eight Pieces of Brocade; Consolidation into Ancient Art Exercises; Shiatsu Do-in (self-shiatsu); Principles of warm up and warm down; Exercise, flexibility, stamina, strength; meditation; therapeutics; deportment; posture; relaxation; fluidity; toe to heel walking; Discussion of bo (staff) selection and care. Body conditioning methods; Kata Tenshu – testing; Touch, the handshake and hugging; Perceptions in the dojo; Physical metaphors for psychological processes; The psychology of teaching; Teacher student relationship; Tornado bridging, in, out, regular and reversed, forward and backward rolling, horizontal circling; high out palm / backhand, low in palm / backhand, high in palm / backhand, low out palm / backhand. Slingshot effect from tornado hands in projecting counter strikes; generation of counter strike ‘power’; Analysis of tornado hands, recognition and acknowledgement of both palm and backhanded applications validating reversed backhanded version of tornado hands.
Extension from four to eight receptive modes high / low, in / out, in - palm or backhand variants. Discussion of initial defence response trigger responses, mindset, psychology, level of force, speed of response, physiological reactions etc. Subsequent identification of contrary motion forms of tornado hands used for trapping and breaking, closing down or opening up. Short range thrusting using extension of fingers and hand collapse to generate impulse power. Methods of achieving dominance, standing ground, forcing through, taking control. Yielding, slipping, absorbing, use of ‘passive’ cover hand.
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