June article posting at www.wedlakekenpotv.com

The monthly article for subscribers is posting. It's on speed and power. Here's an excerpt.

All martialists need to know about the basics of speed and power. Now why, for example, would a student of tai chi want to know this? Because the art has martial application and you can’t defend yourself in slow motion.

Tai chi is a great example of the value of practicing in slow motion. One gets the opportunity to work through a variety of postures and ranges of motion while feeling everything that’s going on. That, in turn, provides us with the time to adjust any movement that is incorrect. How do we know it’s wrong? Usually because it “feels funny” or even hurts. The sense that it “feels funny” may not be due to being incorrect, though. It may be due to doing it right. We could have been doing something incorrectly and it became natural, so when we correct it, it feels different and we might think it’s wrong.

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