“Good things shouldn’t be lost to distance.”
A few days ago, a student in the United States sent me three practice videos with one line attached:
“I didn’t do multiple takes to get my best — I just wanted you to see how I naturally look.”
That’s something only a serious practitioner says.
He’s training Bagua and Xingyi an ocean away, and I went through his clips one by one. One of the most common faults showed up in his splitting fist: the chicken step had collapsed into a T-step.
The problem wasn’t the foot — it was where his intention lived. As he stepped, he was thinking “lift the knee.” Move that intention from the knee to the hip, let the glute push the whole leg forward, and the power comes out bigger and steadier, with the toe naturally pointing up instead of dropping.
So much of this art comes down to the position of a single thought.
Distance can keep people apart. It cannot stop transmission.
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