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Originally Posted by thtackett  The large group seminars changed how Dan taught certain things. For example, when we learned sumbrada there was no box pattern. Dan came up with that to teach it to large groups. The same is true on how trapping was taught. |
Tim can you expand on what you mean about the trapping?
The trapping that I was taught in Jun Fan were series off of parries past the centerline, doesn't parry past the centerline, catches your punch, throws a punch in return etc. (I believe some other names are the Biu Gee series, Loy Pak series etc.) The way I've always viewed these though are as teaching tools and options. While I like the series, I'm always careful not to be bound or stuck in them, because the main thing that I need to do is react to whatever energy a person gives me without a pre-determined path. The series were just teaching me what I could possibly do and why certain things would and wouldn't work, not necessarily what I have to do.