When a beginner starts class, we offer various exercises designed to
explore the nature of internal power.
Students consider connection, sinking and rooting, along with the other
qualities.
One of the exercises involves testing the innate stability of their
posture.
Inevitably, the student does not really 'get it'.
When their posture is tested, they tense-up, they claw their toes, they fight
back, they adjust.
This defeats the point of the exercise.
We are testing 'innate' strength, not how well a person can react, adjust,
retaliate...
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