When standing still it is hard enough to maintain the state. To keep your frontal lobe away and feel nothing so that you can balance and relax enough to use your cerebral cortex (little idea).
There are constant moments were you 'feel' that you are doing something wrong which can bring you right out of the state. You use your frontal lobe to correct and this only exacerbates the problems.
So you have to 'stand' and balance to open your little idea, then you have to try (but not try) to maintain it. You have to use your little idea to become more relaxed, more balanced the whole time not thinking or caring how can I improve whilst still improving. A tall order and it is all just your Basic.
Once you have got somewhere with this you have to start moving. This is where you do all of the above whilst also completing movements. A Tan Sao using your joints not your muscles, using your little idea, not thinking about it. Never wondering if the movement is right and the whole time maintaining the Basic.
Then once you are somewhere with this you need to start maintaining all of this when there is an opposing force present. When someone is physically trying to stop you competing a Tan Sao. And what do you have to do? The same as before, except you have to ignore the opposing force. You have to relax, and balance, and open the little idea. You use that to move your arm. You cant care whether you are doing it correctly, or you wont do it correctly, you cant feel or resist or oppose the incoming force, you simply have to complete the movement.
Three stages, not all, and maybe not even the first three however I certainly feel like I am going through each. Each has its own intricacies though they are all essentially the same. The kicker is you can never be sure that you are doing it right and at least to start, at least what I have to do at the moment, you have to not care if you are doing it right...
So you have to 'stand' and balance to open your little idea, then you have to try (but not try) to maintain it. You have to use your little idea to become more relaxed, more balanced the whole time not thinking or caring how can I improve whilst still improving. A tall order and it is all just your Basic.
Once you have got somewhere with this you have to start moving. This is where you do all of the above whilst also completing movements. A Tan Sao using your joints not your muscles, using your little idea, not thinking about it. Never wondering if the movement is right and the whole time maintaining the Basic.
Then once you are somewhere with this you need to start maintaining all of this when there is an opposing force present. When someone is physically trying to stop you competing a Tan Sao. And what do you have to do? The same as before, except you have to ignore the opposing force. You have to relax, and balance, and open the little idea. You use that to move your arm. You cant care whether you are doing it correctly, or you wont do it correctly, you cant feel or resist or oppose the incoming force, you simply have to complete the movement.
Three stages, not all, and maybe not even the first three however I certainly feel like I am going through each. Each has its own intricacies though they are all essentially the same. The kicker is you can never be sure that you are doing it right and at least to start, at least what I have to do at the moment, you have to not care if you are doing it right...
