Santa Barbara Family Kung Fu

So True☯️

A good teacher opens the door for you...
but you must enter the room yourself.

When one begins to move, the entire body should be light and flexible and the movement must be continuous. The Chi should be expanding with vitality and the mind should be in tranquility. There should be no gaps nor unevenness nor interruptions. The feet are the roots of strength, which passes through the legs, is controlled by the waist, and finally emerges through the fingers. Your feet, legs and waist should be coordinated so that (in moving) forwards and backwards you have good control of time (movement) and space (position). Without this control of time and space in all movement - up, down, left, right, forward and back - your body will be in disorder. The fault then must be found in the waist and the legs. All these principles concern the Will rather than merely the external. Inasmuch as there is up, there is down, front and back, left and right. The Will to go up implies the Will to go down. If you first lift, then push something, its roots, or center of gravity will be broken and it will undoubtedly be destroyed very quickly. The positive and the negative must always be clear. Every movement has its positive and negative. Positive and negative are the foundation of all the movements. There should be continuity throughout the movements of the entire body. Let there be not the slightest breakdown.

-Wu Yixiang