All in The Hips

Tuesdays class:

We are working on side heels, the engagement of the hip, how the timing influences your power and skeletal alignment.

We are working on spinning back kicks, the timing of the release and the range of where the kick extends. 

(I think I am having trouble with releasing all of my power in the linear portion at the end, and maintaining too much of the rotational energy from the spin, I have asked about this issue before many times and have gotten a clearer understanding, but I know I still don’t understand; I don’t raise my hand when Sifu asks is we have any questions)

We are doing punches from a horse stance, focusing on the engagement of our hips and how that interplays with the rotation and drawback of our hands.

We are doing forms, Sifu is asking us what we are focusing on, what we are working on, I do not answer “hip engagement” even though we have been working on it all class.

Someone asks a question about the opening bow, Sifu explains that your hands need to move from their aligned axis to come together at the chest which allows them to drive out in a straight line forward as you engage your hips through the turn, taking the circular motion of the hands coming together and the rotation into the stance and turning it into a linear motion as you drive your hands out.

…

The answer to the question that I didn’t even ask came crashing into my brain before she even finished talking. 

I quietly whisper under my breath as my brain draw the connections between everything we had been working on and promptly explodes: just like the spinning back kick !!!

What I think my spinning back kick was missing was the hip engagement, which rotates in the opposite direction of the spin, which allows you to change the momentum and translate everything into linear energy for the end of the kick! It doesn’t matter how much rotational energy you create, because you are not stopping the momentum, you are changing it! Not just beginning with a circle and drawing it out into a straight line at the end like I thought, but using rotation to connect the two kinds of momentum. 

I will have a lot of work ahead of me to turn this new knowledge into skill, but the idea is there, now I just need the practice!

Current Total

Should Be At

Push-ups

2084

2777

Sit-Ups

1560

2777

Hand Form

10

51

Weapon Form

9

51

Blogs

2

3

Sparring

4

51

AOK

58

51

Steps

121

80

Repair Relationship

1

3

Mastery Blogs

0

1

Digital Journal

0


Jaw Exercises

0

35

1-on-1's

1

3


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  1. AnonymousFebruary 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM

    Awesome blog! Very insightful. - Sihing N. Csillag

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