No, you don’t want to help your opponent but often that is exactly what most do: When you opposes an incoming force directly, you are giving your opponent something solid to work on. When a kid clown around and you
Lǚ Hóng Bā Shì (呂紅八勢)
I assembled the following videos of Lǚ Hóng Bā Shì (呂紅八勢). Lu-Hong historically stand on its own as its own form school or style. It has since been incorporated by Wu as part of our standard training. My generation: Mario
Memorize
Some people are great with verbal memory, you tell them a name or a phone number and they can remember it for a long time. There are people that works better with visual. You can tell them a name or
The LHBF basic form (築基 Zhú Jī)
Zhú Jī (築基) in Chinese means “building the foundation”. The following are a list of different versions of “traditional” liuhebafa. The order is not important and neither am I favoring/endorsing any specific ones. I capitalized the surname because in Chinese,
Names
Names are quick handles to things, people and concepts. It is needed for obvious reasons. Bad names can spell trouble. If you name your son Pee-wee, Hitler, Friday or Ehnol, he is probably going to be teased and may even
Business vs martial arts
There are lots of commonalities between successful businesses and good martial arts: It is not about just cost or revenue, it is about squeezing a healthy margin. Being able to find an ‘angle’ that you have advantage is important. Applying
Tipping the scale
A balanced weight scale is often used as symbol for justice. Random thoughts related to the ‘balancing act’: Does imprisonmeent of one person for life balance out the loss of life of another? The last item that tip the balance
Balancing mental to physical
Most people like dealing with things they can see, feel and touch and tend to avoid things that are abstract or hard to measure. Most countries honor soldiers that suffer physical injuries with medals but left those with mental damages
Mental image
How many muscles does it take to smile, the exact number doesn’t matter for this discussion, the fact remains that most of us don’t really think about the muscle mechanics but smile is just an expression of a state of
Interesting physics
This is video week. The front sprocket for bicycles has been perfect circles forever but do you know there are oval shaped ones? Here is a video of how it looks and change things. Not everyone lift weights and here