Hi

Since noone is doing a book/dvd on Internal styles' methods of power training - hint, hint - I bought myself a dvd a couple of weeks ago. The dvd was from rmax where a Brandon jones tought how one should transfer power through the body IMA - style.

He talked about ground connection and the fascial net and the spine, how one should use the spine as a whip. He started to curl the pelvis under him - the "tuck in" I guess - and when he let the rest of the spine follow so it became as if one should use a whip. If one use a whip one can see a wave where the force goes - leading to the tip of the whip. He did that with his spine to make the force go from the foot to the hand.

The thing is when looking on taiji - guys that has been doing Taiji for decades Iīve never seen this whip - movement in their backīs/spine.
Maybe they donīt know how to do it "right" or if it is B. Jones that is doing it "wrong", I donīt know. What I do know is that, from another dvd iīve got, a Zhang Zhijun donīt use the whip - movement or if he does he does in
such a way that one canīt see it, small movements or something like that.

Have anyone any opinion on the subject?

Merry Christmas

Tobias

BTW

Is the release date for the Clinc - dvd set yet

Tobbe. Look at Park Bok Nams first Ba Qua book about the 'Dragon Back' exercise. This is the best thing I have seen on the wave. Also search this forum on 'spinal wave' It's common to the internal arts and can be a significant source of generating power. The movement can become smaller over time so as to become barely noticable. Mike Paterson covers it a little in a simplified form in his second of three 'How to do internal power' cds. My back is too rigid to it properly though I continue to work on it. I find that even in a simpler form as a back arching, it adds power to hip rotation.

Thanks Mark