by PM » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:46 am
to the topic: as for so called "waist" movement... "waist", in Chinese yiu, means something quite different than waist in English, it is a short way to say yiukwa, waist and hips, hip joint. movement at the lumbar spine is a bad idea and results in low back pain and disconnection of the lower and upper parts of the body and power "leaking". that is why it is said: "breath sinks to the cinnanbar field" (hei cham daan tin) - to increase the intra abdominal pressure there, and why it is said "coordinated movement of the hips/waist and stance" (yiu ma hap yat) and "hips and waist, arms and hands, stance and legs, all three are one" (yiu kiu ma, saam hap yat). so, we primarily move at our hips and thoratic spine, not lumbar spine ("waist"). watch any good boxer, golf ar baseball player!
Pavel Macek
