Touch your right palm to your heart. Then take your heart and offer it to your training partner. Your hand is positioned higher than your elbow.

Your training partner offers you various responses such as :-

a) He pushes your offered right hand back to your chest

b) He pushes your right hand to your left side

c) He pushes your right hand to your right side

d) He pushes your right hand up to your face

e) He pushes your right hand down

How did you respond to this pressure test?

Did you stiffen on receiving the pressure exerted by your training partner’s push?

Or did you automatically and naturally bend like the willow branch with the pressure and then snaps back an appropriate response?

If you play the single hand exercises of 6-Blocks, 6-LH, 3-WS and 3-NS a lot your hand will respond like the willow branch.

Oh, did you notice anything about the pressure tests? It is basically mapping out the movement route of the 6-LH.

If your hand is still stiffening put yourself on the movement diet below :-

1) Use zigzag stepping.
2) Right foot step diagonal
3) Perform single right hand 6-Blks, 6-LH, 3-WS and 3-NS
4) Next left foot steps diagonally
5) Now perform the single left hand 6-Blks, 6-LH, 3-WS and 3-NS
6) Keep stepping forward, keep practicing
7) You can also take a step back and do the single hand exercises

Bored with the same old sequence? Try practicing with Version 2 of 6-Blks, 6-LH and 3-WS.

To train your hand to move even better, play Version 1 and Version 2 of 6-Blks, 6-LH and 3-WS one after another.

Or simply reorder the sequences. Try starting with 6-LH Version 1, then 6-Blks Version 2, etc.

With enough practice your hand will respond like the willow branch.

Next step, try playing single contact hands using 6-Blks, 6-LH, 3-WS and 3-NS.