REFLECTION OF THE LOUTS FORM (PART 1, SECTION 1-8)

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Reflection of the Lotus Form (Part 1 , Section 1-8)

If you have spend enough time to go through Section 1 to Section 8, practice progressively and internalize as much as you can over time, you will feel you are 'INTERNALLY" empowered. Your stamina improved, better sense of balance, movements are more coordinated, less tension in the muscles, less body ache and more mindful.  I felt in reflection, these training are giving fast results and easy to learn.

Next is to put these training into practical use. But before doing that, we need a training method to help us assimilate into our bio-memory, hard-wired our neurological networks and program our subconscious mind. And the method we adopt is what we call " Dap Sao Flow", an exercise to simulate the twelve possibilities of combative hand positions.

The main focus of the exercise is to be able to feel without seeing what is happening and to be able to act accordingly without thinking. It is not a competition, it is a give and take kind of exchanges, sometimes you feed, sometimes I feed. I learn how to receive, you learn how to let go and vice versa. Ultimately, we are building our sensitivity to touch, to allow what we had input from Section 1 to Section 8 the appropriate situation to manifest. You don't decide what to do, let your gut feeling lead. Do not let your Ego comes in. This the time that no action is right or wrong, because its very stimuli itself is an opportunity to learn more. Be patience, the Ego will nudge you to counter and attack ( that is the nature of the Ego, to fight and win). We are going to be mindful about these and yet not deliberately trying to make certain things happen.

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