greytowhite
Green Belt
That's my teacher doing wood fist with my elder gong fu brother a few years back. I started training with Sifu Lloyd in May of last year and wood was the first fist he taught me. Yesterday was the first time I went up and down the grass without hearing corrections whilst doing wood fist. Lloyd said he didn't say anything because I was doing well. I was amazed and glad to know I didn't need to work on external alignments.
Intent, the quality of jing, and being relaxed within the form are still points of polishing and I look forward to seeing what this monster of a thing can do as its layers are slowly revealed to me. This anjing training in our xingyi is really different than the stuff I've done before and would say it's softer in some ways than the Chen village taiji and Yin bagua I did in the past. I have sent a couple of the newer guys flying away with wood fist when we play around and practice. Fun stuff!