The Internal Structure of Cloud Hands by Robert Tangora

Author:Robert Tangora [Tangora, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58394-737-1
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2013-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

The Basic Zhong Ding Stepping Method

If you coordinate the weight shifting, turning, and bouncing as they are described in sections above, the stepping method in Cloud Hands flows naturally from your waist movement. Remember that zhong ding is one of the five stepping methods used to move around your center. Cloud Hands, when coordinated with your waist movement, reveals the zhong ding stepping method even when you are not making large turns or even stepping.

Use the points of reference to coordinate your stepping. Begin facing the center with your weight on your left leg. In a conventional right-hand form, your inward step is completed at this point and you are “shoulder width” or narrower. As your waist continues to turn left, you return to the center while you shift your weight onto your right leg. Next, as you turn to your right, the opening and lengthening of your left hip initiates the step with your left leg. It is important that you complete the step with your left leg (with your entire unweighted foot evenly planted on the ground) by the time the rebound from the bounce on the right side begins. Then, your left leg is aligned to begin pulling with the rebound.

As your weight pulls onto the left leg, your weight shift should be swift. Once your weight is on the left leg, use the figure-eight turn of the waist to draw the right leg inward. This results in the inward step. The inward step of your right leg must complete by the time your waist is facing forward. This cycle of weight shifting integrates stepping in and out with the shifting and turning of the waist, and provides the proper timing for changing internally during Cloud Hands.

To begin incorporating Pulling Silk into Cloud Hands, start with the pushing and pulling between your legs. Jump your awareness into your pushing foot, and pull from the foot outward. Simultaneously, hold your awareness in your lower tan tien. Pull from your foot up through your pulling leg. This energetically lengthens the soft tissue inward and outward in unison with your pushing and pulling. In a later chapter, a more complete Pulling Silk will be explored, but this requires understanding the changes in the nei chin in Cloud Hands.

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