Power Hour 7

Use the Kua to Find the Solid# exercises.

Mistakes I’m making

• Intent on the hand: the hand is anticipating the movement and moving on its own.
  • It has to be dead but solid not loose.
  • Especially when doing it with speed, the hand’s gear must be locked into the kua and not pop off on its own.
• Shoulder tensing / locking, preventing the arm from staying on the line.
  • Makes the hand follow the kua.
  • Shoulder needs to match / adjust to kua to make the upper arc.
  • Ratio needs to favor the bottom arc.
• Kua starts out with not enough room / too open already.
  • Sit back and give the kua space to open, otherwise the movement will be too small - everything else has to be relative to that movement.

Kua drills:

• Twisting Towel#
• 金刚捣碓 Jīn Gāng Dǎo Duì#
  • When powering up, I tense up my upper arm and move my hand. All the movement has to be on the kua.
• 单鞭 Dān Biān#
  • In the second move, I didn’t have the connection to my elbow. I had to bring the elbow back to the position in Twisting Towel# and give more room to my kua.