Martial Arts at Pleasant Valley, NY - Monthly Master's Class - September 12th

Master Sam Chin, will guide us in learning how to develop specific qualities the internal arts are known for through solo exercises and partner practice. Beginning with the use of a series of specific patterns we will learn to unify ourselves alone and with partners. It is through the physical sensitivity and mental awareness of the reactions of both our opponent/partner and our own bodies that we will begin to feel and act spontaneously, rather than thinking and anticipating.

Here is what you will learn:

1. Taiji & Chan (Zen) approaches to learning.

2. Understand, both mentally & physically, nine qualities essential to the internal arts:

* Absorb & Project

* Open & Close

* Condense & Expand

* Concave & Convex

* 3-D Action

3. To express the above qualities with a partner through Spinning Hands & Sticky Hands.

4. Strategies of action in dealing with an opponent.

5. Engaging the point of contact. What? How?

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