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Josh Young wrote:
Most of the elderly people I know turn the foot first and then have the weight arrives, most of the younger and more martial people I do the weight bearing turns. Some of those I know just do what they were taught, I have seen good martial artists do it both ways.
Heel pivoting crept into my normal walking.
I can say that the heel turns that are weighted do require that you wear the right footwear, and maintain the right connection, or you can damage your knee.
?...doesn't this kind of imply that one cannot simply practice in whatever one is wearing at the time
Sometimes I can spin around in place 2-3 times before I lose my center!
Monsoon wrote: Yang Jun from the Yang Family Association teaches the turn in 'repulse the naughty monkey' as a step back with the (now forward) foot turning only after the the step is rooted. Mind you, Jun's hand position is different too, perhaps simply reflecting different applications?
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