| Has anyone else applied the theory of Yin and Yang to your CLF? It's actually one of my personal core concepts in regards to how our system plays out. For example, ping chop into poon kiu, followed by a sau, gwa fan, and kup choy (one of my favorite combos). The way I look at it is one hand is yin, one hand is yang.
I throw my ping chop, it's becomes yang. From either a fighting stance, or even hands at the waist (in case someone just comes at you etc). Potential to kinetic energy. That goes, I turn it into poon kiu, either to distract, hit, or intercept an incoming technique (you don't care if he's throwing something or not, you want to use the poon kiu anyways). As your hand goes down and you relax the arm (loose, supple always), SIMULTANEOUSLY bring in the sau choy with the opposite arm. Once again, your sau arm should be relaxed at the sides. LOTS of potential energy, I call this yin. As your poon kiu goes you strike with the sau. Interchanging between yin & yang simultaneously, continuously. Nonstop.
In CLF you shoudn't be moving one hand/arm at a time. So the way I look at it, you're completing the yin/yang circle with every technique [or two, since both arms are at work; another way to look at it].
I'm not sure if you guys like the way I view things, but utilizing Chinese philosophy usually simplifies things for me personally and makes things easier to understand.
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