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Repeated viewings of GM Perkins’ movement while flowing with students yields tremendous insights into how to react properly; words cannot fully convey this but you will begin to feel in your own body what is effective GC movement.
► Filmed in December 2019, Grandmaster Perkins shows in this class the incredible subtlety of micro-yielding and small-circle returning at a different angle to upset balance and defeat incoming strikes while delivering your own. You really have to watch and re-watch closely.
► Note how John Slips/Skims to other contact surfaces as needed (for example, fingertips to back of forearm).
► At 2:15 he shows how if you release too big you give control back over to the enemy. You release JUST ENOUGH so you can re-enter at a different angle to unbalance or strike. This is distinct from how tai chi is mostly trained (especially initially) with it’s very large yield/returns which train unrealistic combat responses.
► John shows it is often important to unbalance before striking because even if you yield and return a strike, the attacker may still be able to hit you. When you yield and unbalance them while moving to a new root point, it disrupts their setup for striking as you strike.
► While yielding/returning, John is always ready to plyometrically Drop.
► The yielding and microscopic-circle-returning allows you to stay with their hands/arms, allowing greater manipulation of their bodies.
► As repeated in many videos, do NOT grab with the thumb – at high speed under full adrenaline it will get torn off.
► Note also how when you use your whole body and reference points like your elbow, upper arm or even your shoulder, you vastly increase your versatility.
► When you add Pulsing to the mix, you are instigating their reactions at YOUR discretion that you then can yield and return off of as described above.
