Nice Lower Frame

Marin

Lao Tou
Staff member
This guy’s leg frame seems a bit
gongfu-ish:
Interesting.. notice he has the illness of the rolled under tailbone. I mean just about ALL of Yang and Wu style will have that pathology. Once you notice that it becomes understandable that even as he moves at a ridiculously slow pace he still cannot prevent his knee from passing the toe. (We won't dig further into structural detail on this topic in public but you get my point eh?)
 

Marin

Lao Tou
Staff member
Probably the best lesson you provided last weekend was on the issue of tucking the tailbone. Martial arts aside, not tucking the tailbone has eliminated my hip pain. Years of shitty body mechanics. Thanks!

"Tucking the tailbone"- it really is shitty mechanics, but there is no way to explain that one to people involved in those arts as the rational involves a total structural overhaul and a lot of explanation. Inevitably the debate will end up at Qi-somethingerather that cannot be explained or rationally debated at all and you lose.
 

Marin

Lao Tou
Staff member
Is "illness/pathology" used in the literal (medical) sense here?
Not medical. In the context of the health of the practice-body, there are pathologies of practice. In the long term embodying a rolled under tailbone shape is also a postural and then therefore eventually may become a medical pathology at the extreme as well, the same way a slouching upper back posture often does.
 
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