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Power of linking
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Date: 2006/12/18 18:41
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By: Edward
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Get this...
I have an old training injury back from the Tony Leung 'caring about your students' days - at a kung fu demo back when I was a 10 stone weakling when some portly gent got up from the audience and promptly leaned his 20 stone on my arm in chy sau, thus ripping the ligaments from my shoulder and pulling it out of alignment.
Shoulder has never quite been the same after that, once every few years I'll do something to jar it and all the surrounding muscles will go into spasm, locking the shoulder up and making it quite painful to lift the arm. Which as you can imagine gets in the way a bit with training, and life in general.
Usually at that point I have to go and spend a small fortune with a chiropractor to click everything back into place - which usually does the trick.
While I'm waiting for that to happen, it's usually a case of desperately trying to stretch out all the surrounding muscles of my shoulder while it feels like someone is sticking hot screwdrivers into various points. Having a bone out of alignment is pretty uncomfortable and annoying.
Anyway, this time around it dawned on me. I got my posture right, got my alignment correct. I got my intention on my shoulder and used the linking across my back to pull the arm back into what felt like the correct place. Then I put intention across the whole shoulder area, neck, chest, back and ribs, and turned the volume up full... my shoulder went crunch.
And would you know it but it's put it back into place! I got my arm back, no paying chiropractors, no hanging around - except for the day it took for all the muscles to settle back down again.
How sweet is that... if there was ever any doubt in my mind that linking wasn't the proper way to use the body - which there wasn't - this would have dispelled that immediately.
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Re:Power of linking
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Date: 2007/01/19 17:15
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By: chowgar
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Status: User
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On a similar note, I had an annoying and painful lower back problem couple of years ago, bad posture me thinks. It usually struck me whilst playing basketball, especially doin a "Lay up". I would hardly leave 5inches off the ground when a sharp pain, like a knife stabbing me in the lower back area would force me to crash in embarrassing fasion back down to earth.
Since focusing on my correct posture from the top of my head down to my feet, training on some of the other standing postures, 6 months later im pretty much cured. I have no doubts in our training,we all just have to put our backs into it a little more....no pun intended! 
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