press here like I'm pretty solid you're pushing down to my back you expand my chest there's actually sink your chest and expand your chest so now there's another not going mechanism that blends so there's blending I try to do it so when you're sinking it sinks down to the back so your chest is in and you push hard as well it's not going anywhere you expand a bit so you contract yeah easily where we balance too hard because when you can try you feel like oh I can push the guy you feel like you can push me you got me right don't use this just relax when you push on here I'm totally relaxed I'm just using my whole structure in my body so this is actually touching my body I let you in you got me right there's more room alright just relax this whole thing suck in there so it feels like oh yeah I got you now but you feel like now it's on your back leg right now you just expand yeah okay alright it's all new right so Glenn put that into your sucking in there I'm already sucked in and I'm expanding but then you need to make sure the elbow so if I go like this you can just push it up but you try to elbow me like this you do that elbow me at least I can control the elbow then if you feel yourself moving this way you're you're going to change it to here yeah alright so you need to in just a second and then expand every step through deeper my feet haven't touched the ground yet and they already made contact so now all the momentum is going through you instead of going to the ground okay I'll stand here and you can try so you gotta step really deep so I'll step with this foot like this one like that so that works too but that's not the technique so I'll step deeper today you want to take my place so here's my center so my foot basically has to be here oh yeah let's see how deep you have to go but then don't knee forward you straight boom one straight step I'm trying to drop my height down I feel like that when I get here my shoulders here don't use your shoulder one technique is to use your shoulder that's for a more combata because you can use your shoulder boom you're just going to bump with your chest like that so relax your shoulder don't do this like that don't stick it out like this I'm trying to pull it back so just relax so I feel that when I step here so you don't want to step then go you have to pay before I land so before my foot even touches the ground I'm already there or at the same time so there you go I can feel that a lot more so you want to aim aim for behind again another thing is to make a frame make this round sink your chest so this is like one big one big cup one big cup is gone because you stick out any part of the cup then it's just going to go in it won't affect the whole thing so you make this round there's two ways you can sink down or you can rise up that's rising up so you go rising up or you can sink down so it's like you got it same idea right so now you just extend this so now you're bringing your whole body into it so in this video I'm going to show you the three mistakes in Tai Chi that are very common that people make the advantages of learning Tai Chi is for health, for your joints for your bones, for breathing for relaxation and meditation but also you learn a concept called rooting or sinking so as you can see in the demonstration Will here, how much do you weigh 240 pounds 220 pounds, look at his muscles it's as big as my leg right I'm already I'm only about 150 pounds look at my skinny arms and I'm able to resist and pushing me and I'm fairly relaxed without using a lot of strength I can resist this push and how hard were you pushing there and I'm just standing there not using too much strength so the key is don't fight strength don't fight force with force so in Tai Chi you'll teach you how to use structure the structure of your skeletal structure of your bones, of your joints of your alignment and also of your mind of what the intention is in order to resist force using just structure so one of the key things that you need to have structure well there's three mistakes that people make that destroy structure in Tai Chi and very few people that actually practice Tai Chi actually know and actually experience so stay tuned and I'm going to show you those to you mistake number three is not being relaxed so a lot of people are confused about relaxation and about being placid there's two different things for example, if I'm being placid he pushes and that's placid right there's nothing there but being relaxed in a concept called shong in Chinese it's loose but relaxed but still have structure so he's pushing he's pushing harder, harder, harder I'm relaxing, my hands are relaxed but he's pushing harder, harder I'm still relaxed you see how it relaxes my arm I'm still able to resist them so that's the difference between being shong which means loose and placid but in English we use the word relaxation which is very easy to misinterpret so number one key when you practice your tai chi for example, practice your tai chi your hands are always relaxed there's only a tense state and a relaxed state now when we go to the gym, most people they practice being tense use your muscles, tense up to get more power which is okay, it works but if you practice being tense all the time and practice being tense then if you're fighting against someone bigger than you you're at a disadvantage because his force will be stronger than your force so rather than use force I use shong I use relaxation so when you practice your tai chi make sure that your hands are not open like this because that's too much tension because your hands are not closed like this because that's too much tension when it's relaxed, it's completely relaxed imagine holding an egg in your hand when you're open, just open them slightly just stretch them out a little bit when you're relaxed, relaxed when you're open, just open a little you always want to feel an energy ball in the palms of your hands so it's very subtle for example, when I do this I'm combining two things first of all, my hands are lifting up at the same time my hands are going from relaxed to slightly open and then back to relaxed slightly open it's a very minor detail, but what that does is it teaches you even though you're using tension my hands are slightly open that I'm still in a relaxed state so I never go from I never go up to 100% I go up to maybe 60 to 70% tension because once you go above that then you start to use force you stay below, let's say, 60% tension then you're not using force you're using relaxation and the key to Tai Chi is to train yourself so that you can still use relaxation at 60%, 50%, 40%, 30% eventually using no tension at all to be able to resist someone with force so that's what takes the training that's what takes the many, many hours of repetition and training doing the push hands that we just showed you in the demonstration doing that for a lot that you can learn how to use relaxation mistake number two in Tai Chi is to not use your Dan Tian or not use your core the center of gravity to direct the movements so there's a very simple movement called pilot hands so I'm using my core to direct my body the same as using just one hand see how my core is moving in a circle to direct my arm so the core or the Dan Tian leads the arms Sun Dai Sao that's what I say in Chinese the body leads the hand so that's number two mistake here's how it looks like when you make the mistake see a difference my hand is leading my core so there's very little power or connection when I'm moving my hand I'm just moving my hand I'm not even leading it with the core now do it correctly so how you can practice is actually put your finger or put your hand and fingers touch your belly button and then feel it move before your hand moves but now you get the difference and the difference you can tell let's see I'm just using my hand just my hand pain wise how much is that 1 to 10 about a 4 4 okay now I'm using my hip I mean using my Dan Tian how much pain more pain is there about a 7 and I didn't use more power I just used my waist and if I use more I can get it up to 10 so that's the key of generating power is to use your Dan Tian so let me show you demonstration in the 24 move Tai Chi form of how to use the Dan Tian to guide your hands so let me show you the wrong way of doing this I'm trying very hard to do it the wrong way because I practice so much the proper way but what I'm doing is I'm leading with my hands and then I move my body so a very basic fundamental in early Tai Chi if you're a beginner is to learn how to move your hips now when you get advanced Tai Chi you learn how to move your opposite you learn to move your hands before your hips it's contradictory isn't it but I'll show you how to do that in the next lesson or in a later lesson and it goes with the concept that Bruce Lee taught which is to move your hands before your feet just like in fencing you want to move your hands before your feet the reason is because when somebody attacks you I don't have time to move my hip first and do a big Tai Chi move if somebody attacks me I have to move my hand first so what's the difference see before you learn Tai Chi and once you learn Tai Chi they move their hands first but there's no power and then they practice Tai Chi and then they'll learn how to use the hips to get power but they practice enough Tai Chi and now they'll go back to the beginning they use their hands first but now it comes with power how does that happen okay so let me show you again let's see if it's attacking I'm going to move my hips and do a big Tai Chi move like in a lot of demonstrations I only have time to just move my hand up but there's power there, how does that happen I just move my hand I move my hand and then my body go again I move my hand and then my body I didn't move my hip first just me moving my hips first too slow, I have to go one, two you already hit me but now I want to do it so that I move my hand first okay so how does that work, maybe in a later lesson I can show you how to do that mistake number one that you can make in Tai Chi is to not sink your tailbone which means not to open your back now I'm going to show Will for example because I'm wearing a jacket you can't see so you see if you take your shirt and tighten it up your spine has a curve here so most people have that curve naturally but in Tai Chi you actually don't want that curve in Tai Chi you want to get rid of that curve so you want to sink down the tailbone so that you can feel that this is flatter and ideally it's actually a C it's a cup so what you need to do is sink your tailbone down even more suck in your gut and then stretch this out like this so now I can feel it's lower back it's straightening up but still not enough, you want it to stick out push out over here, push, push, push okay so now you can feel that it's more like a C where I stand about before see how see how it's like an S so you don't want that and you can see a lot of people doing Tai Chi with a back like this it's actually very bad for your back and also it makes you disconnected it disconnects your upper body with your lower body the key to having a strong core and Dan Qian is to connect your upper body with your lower body and this is the main mistake that people make by having the S curve of the spine and what it does is it disconnects your body so for example I'm going to do an S curve on purpose my spine is like my belly sticking out I'm trying to and he pushes on my hand see I'll automatically go back, there's no resistance but now I stick my back out I drop my hip I make this into a C and now he pushes on it what happened? it's more rooted it's rooted see what happens when you curve your back is now that energy transfer goes straight through your spine and then into your hips and into the legs, into the knees, into the ground when you break that connection by curving your spine doesn't go to your legs so that's why he pushes that energy goes to the spine and then I go so that's the number one mistake that you can make in Tai Chi so when you practice your Tai Chi make sure that you always check put my hand back behind my back I see, it's straight you did a C you don't want to be like this so even when you do your moves think about that think that the spine is going to be straight so one exercise you can do is to do very slow squats against the wall I want to first put my back against the wall and then see if there's any space behind my back see if I slip my hand behind my back if there's a space that I can slip my hand behind then there's too much space so I need to get rid of that space I want all my spine to be touching the wall once I get that then I can go up and down just go halfway just sliding my spine up and down the wall now after I do that and I'm good at it then I can go all the way down all the way down keeping my spine straight and touching the wall all the way and do it slow like this so that's going to be very hard on your lower back but it strengthens your lower back it strengthens your leg so that's one key in Tai Chi of creating connectedness I'll show you the bonus mistake that people make so the bonus mistake that you can make in Tai Chi is doing it too fast I know everybody says this you want to do Tai Chi slow but many people don't understand why you do Tai Chi so slow well today we talked about three mistakes number one, relaxation number two, using your Dan Tian to lead your hands and number three, having a proper spine alignment what do all those things mean connectedness of your whole body integration of your whole body if your hand moves your whole body moves if your feet move your whole body moves and the reason we do Tai Chi so slow is that we're training that connectedness and it's impossible to train it doing it fast that's why we do it slow if we can do it fast and still get connectedness then everybody would do Tai Chi fast but the reason we do it slow is because Tai Chi doing it slow is probably the only way you can train that connectedness in your body by combining all the techniques that we learned relaxation leading with the Dan Tian and later on how to use your breath to relax and connect your body too and your mind so there's many aspects of learning how to connect your whole body and mind as an integrated machine integrated unit to function totally and holistically so when it comes in you sink your chest so you press here like I'm pretty solid here because you're pushing down to my head expand my chest there's actually an expanded chest so now there's another not going mechanism that that blends so there's blending try and do it so when you're sinking it sinks down to the bottom so the chin is tucked chest is in and then you push hard as well it's not going anywhere expand a bit pull the shoulders pull the shoulders can you please so you contract easily when we balance so hard oh I can push the guy you feel like you can push me you think you got me right don't use this just relax when you push in here I'm totally relaxed I'm just using my whole structure in my body so this is actually touching my body so you feel like you got me there's actually more yeah alright just relax this whole thing suck in there so it feels like oh yeah I got you now but you feel like now it's on your back leg right now you just expand yeah okay alright it's all new right so put that into your cushion suck in and expand I'm already sucked in I'm already expanding but then you need to make sure the elbow, cap the elbow cap the elbow so if I go like this you can just push it up but you try to elbow me like this you do that elbow me at least I can control the elbow right then if you feel yourself moving this way you're you're going to change it to here yeah alright so you need to in, cap the elbow is this sucking in is this sucking in just sucking in and then expand step here and I bump into you like that right? yeah if I step too deeper my feet haven't touched the ground yet and I've already made contact so now all the momentum is going through you instead of going to the ground so you got to step really deep so I step with this foot or this one like that so that works too but that's not the technique so I'm here you want to take my place here's my center you want to be there so my foot basically has to be here oh yeah yeah see how deep you have to go that's better then don't need for you straight it's almost straight okay I'm trying to drop my height down because I feel like when I get here my shoulder is here don't use your shoulder is this one technique to use your shoulder that's for a more combata because you can use your shoulder bone but for training you're just going to bump into your chest okay relax your shoulder don't do this yeah don't stick it out like this I'm trying to pull it back so just relax I'm David Wong and in this video I'm going to show you the three mistakes in Tai Chi that are very common that people make so one of the main advantages of learning Tai Chi is for health for your joints, for your bones for breathing, for relaxation and meditation for rooting or sinking so as you can see in the demonstration Will here, how much do you weigh? 220 pounds 320 pounds, look at his muscles look at his arms, holy cow he's as big as my leg I'm only about 150 pounds look at my skinny arms and I'm able to resist and pushing me and I'm fairly relaxed without using a lot of strength I can resist this push 900% putting all the strength in there and I'm just standing there not using too much strength so the key is don't fight strength don't fight force with force so in Tai Chi you will teach you how to use structure the structure of your skeletal structure of your bones, of your joints, of your alignment and also of your mind of what the intention is in order to resist force using just structure you need to have structure well there's three mistakes that people make that destroy structure in Tai Chi and very few people that actually practice Tai Chi actually know and actually experience and know how to do this so stay tuned and I'm going to show you those to you mistake number three is not being relaxed so a lot of people are confused about relaxation and about being placid there's two different things for example he pushes and that's placid right there's nothing there but being relaxed in a concept called shong in Chinese it's being loose but relaxed but still have structure so he's pushing he's pushing harder, harder, harder I'm relaxed see I'm still relaxed see how relaxed my arm is and I'm still able to resist him okay so that's the difference between being shong which means loose and placid but in English we use the word relaxation which is very easy to misinterpret so number one key when you practice your Tai Chi for example your hands are always relaxed there's only a 10 state and a relaxed state now when we go to the gym most people practice being tense use your muscles tense up to get more power which is okay, it works but if you practice being tense all the time practice being tense then if you're fighting against someone bigger than you you're at a disadvantage because his force will be stronger than your force so rather than use force I use shong I use relaxation so when you practice your Tai Chi make sure that your hands are not open like this because that's too much tension because your hands are not closed like this because that's too much tension your hands should always be in the middle when it's relaxed it's completely relaxed imagine holding an egg in your hand when you're open just open them slightly just stretch them out a little bit when you're relaxed relaxed when you're open just open a little you always want to feel an energy ball in the palms of your hands so it's very subtle for example when I do this I'm combining two things first of all my hands are lifting up at the same time my hands are going from relaxed to slightly open and then back to relaxed slightly open it's a very minor detail but what that does is it teaches you even though you're using tension see my hands are slightly open that I'm still in a relaxed state so I never go from I never go up to 100% I go up to maybe 60 to 70% tension never go above that because once you go above that then you start to use force if you stay below let's say 60% tension then you're not using force you're using relaxation and the key to Tai Chi is to train yourself so that you can still use relaxation at 60%, 50%, 40%, 30% eventually using no tension at all to be able to resist someone with force so that's what takes the training that's what takes the many many hours repetition and training doing the push hands that we just showed you in the demonstration doing that for a lot then you can learn how to use relaxation mistake number two in Tai Chi is to not use your Dan Tian or not use your core to direct the movements so there's a very simple movement called bowed hands so I'm using my core to direct my body because I'm using just one hand see how my core is moving in a circle to direct my arm so the core or the Dan Tian leads the arms that's what I say in Chinese the body leads the hand so that's number two mistake here's how it looks like when you make the mistake see the difference my hand is leading my core so there's very little power or connection when I'm moving my hand I'm just moving my hand, I'm not even leading it with the core now here's what you're doing correctly so how you can practice is actually put your finger or put your hand and fingers touch your belly button and then feel it move before your hand moves so now you get the difference and the difference you can tell, let's see I'm just using my hand like this just my hand pain wise how much is that one to ten about four now I'm using my hip I mean using my Dan Tian how much pain more pain is there brings it up to about a seven and I didn't use more power I just used my waist if I use more I can get it up to ten so that's the key of generating power is to use your Dan Tian so let me show you demonstration in the 24 move Tai Chi form of how to use the Dan Tian to guide your hands so let me show you the wrong way of doing this I'm trying very hard to do it the wrong way because I practice so much the proper way but what I'm doing is I'm leading with my hands and then I move my body so a very basic fundamental in early Tai Chi if you're a beginner is to learn how to move your hips now when you get advanced Tai Chi you actually do the opposite you learn to move your hands before your hips it's contradictory isn't it but I'll show you how to do that in the next lesson or in a later lesson and it goes with the concept that Bruce Lee taught which is to move your hands before your feet just like in fencing you want to move your hands before your feet the reason is because when somebody attacks you I don't have time to move my hip first and do a big Tai Chi move right? if somebody attacks me I have to move my hand first so what's the difference see before you learn Tai Chi and once you learn Tai Chi they move their hands first but there's no power and then they practice Tai Chi and then they'll learn how to use the hips to get power but they practice enough Tai Chi and now they'll get back to the beginning they use their hands first but now it comes with power how does that happen so let me show you again I don't have time to move my hips and do a big Tai Chi move like in a lot of demonstrations I only have time to just move my hand up but there's power there how does that happen I just move my hand I move my hand and then my body go again I move my hand and then my body I didn't move my hip first here's me moving my hips first too slow right? I have to go one, two, you already hit me but now I want to do it so that I move my hand first how does that work? maybe in a later lesson I can show you how to do that mistake number one that you can make in Tai Chi is to not sink your tailbone which means not to open your back now I'm going to show Will for example because I'm wearing a jacket you can't see if you take this shirt and tighten it up the spine has a curve here most people have that curve naturally but in Tai Chi you actually don't want that curve in Tai Chi you want to get rid of that curve so you want to sink down the tailbone so that you can feel that this is flatter and ideally it's actually a C, it's a couple so what you need to do is sink your tailbone down even more suck in your gut and then stretch this out like this so now I can feel it's lower back, it's straightening up but it's still not enough, you want it to stick out so push out over here, push, push, push that's better so now you can feel that it's more like a C where I started about before see how it's like an S so you don't want that and you can see a lot of people doing Tai Chi with a back like this and also it makes you disconnected it disconnects your upper body with your lower body the key to having a strong core and Dan Tian is to connect your upper body with your lower body and this is the main mistake that people make by having the S curve of the spine and what it does is it disconnects your body so for example I'm going to do an S curve on purpose my spine is like really sticking out, I'm trying to and he pushes on my hand see I'll automatically go back, there's no resistance but now I stick my back out I drop my hip and make this into a C and now he pushes on it what happened, it's a different you're more rooted it's rooted, see what happens when you curve your back is now that energy transfer goes straight into your spine and then into your hips and into the legs, into the knees into the ground when you break that connection by curving your spine now all the energy just goes in your spine it doesn't go to your legs so that's why he pushes that energy goes to the spine and then I go so that's the number one mistake that you can make in Tai Chi so when you practice your Tai Chi make sure that you always check put my hand back behind my back is it straight, is it a C you don't want to be like this so even when you do your moves think about that think that the spine is going to be straight one exercise you can do is to do very slow squats against the wall so that's the wall against me I want to first put my back against the wall and then see if there's any space behind my back see if I slip my hand behind my back if there's a space that I can slip my hand behind then there's too much space so I need to get rid of that space I want all my spine to be touching the wall once I get that then I can go up and down just go half way and go back up sliding my spine up and down the wall now after I do that and I'm good at it then I can go all the way down keeping my spine straight and touching the wall all the way and go slow like this so that's going to be very hard on your lower back but it strengthens your lower back it strengthens your leg so that's one key in Tai Chi of creating connectedness so stay tuned I'm going to show you the bonus mistake that people make so the bonus mistake that you can make in Tai Chi is doing it too fast I know everybody says this you want to do Tai Chi slow but many people don't understand why you do Tai Chi so slow today we talked about three mistakes relaxation using your dan tian to lead your hands number three having a proper spine alignment what do all those things mean all those things mean connectedness of your whole body integration of your whole body if your hand moves your whole body moves if your feet move your whole body moves everything's connected and the reason we do Tai Chi so slow is that we're training that connectedness and it's impossible to train it doing it fast that's why we do it slow if we can do it fast and still get connectedness then everybody would do Tai Chi fast but the reason we do it slow is because Tai Chi doing it slow is probably the only way you can train that connectedness in your body by combining all the techniques that we learned relaxation leading with the dan tian and later on how to use your breath to connect your body to and your mind so there's many aspects of learning how to connect your whole body and mind as an integrated machine integrated unit in order to function totally and holistically so when it comes in you sink your chest it's like a press here like I'm pretty solid here because you're pushing down to my back you expand my chest and then you go from the beginning so now there's another not going mechanism that blends so there's blending and it's sinking more so when you're sinking it sinks down to the back so the chin is tucked chest is in and then you push hard as well it's not going anywhere you expand a bit first so you contract easily what was bound to hard because when you can try and you feel like oh I can push the guy right you feel like you can push me you think you got me right don't use this just relax when you push on here I'm totally relaxed I'm just using my whole structure my body so this is actually touching my body so you feel like you got me right there's more room alright alright just relax this whole thing suck in there so it feels like oh yeah I got you now but you feel like now it's on your back leg right now you just expand okay I'm already so new alright so Glenn put that into your cushion so you're already sucking in the expansion I'm already sucked in and I'm already expanding but then you need to make sure the elbow, cap the elbow cap the elbow so if I go like this you can just push it up when you try to elbow me like this you do that elbow me at least I can control the elbow if I don't then if you feel yourself moving this way you're you're going to change it to here so you need to in, cap the elbow this is sucking in just sucking in and then expand you're freaking in and bump into you every step through deeper so my feet haven't touched the ground yet and they've already made contact so now all the momentum is going through you instead of going to the ground you try that I'll stand here and you try to bump into it so you gotta step really deep so I'll step with this foot or this one like that so that works too so I'll step deeper today you want to take my place so here's my center so my foot basically has to be here oh yeah see how deep you have to go so that's better but then don't knee forward you straight? boom I'm trying to drop my height down because I feel like my shoulder is here don't use your shoulder one technique is to use your shoulder that's for a more combata because you can use your shoulder bone but for training you're just going to bump into the chest so relax your shoulder don't do this like that don't stick it out like this I'm trying to pull it back so just relax you're not stepping deep enough so I feel that when I step here so you don't want to step then go you have to pay before I land so before my foot even touches the ground I'm already there or the same time so there you go I can feel that a lot more so you want to aim for behind the guy okay another thing is to make a frame make this round sink your chest so there's like one big one big cup one big cup is gone okay because you stick out any part of the cup then it's just going to go in it won't affect the whole thing so you make this round okay there's two ways you can sink down or you can rise up that's rising up so you go yeah okay so it's like going downwards you got it same idea right so now you just extend this so now you're bringing your whole body into it into a push so okay in this video I'm going to show you the three mistakes in Tai Chi that are very common that the main advantages of learning Tai Chi is for health, for your joints for your bones, for breathing for relaxation and meditation but also you learn a concept called rooting or sinking so as you can see in the demonstration we'll hear how much do you weigh 220 pounds okay there's muscles holy cow there's as big as my leg I'm only about 150 pounds look at my skinny arms and I'm able to resist and pushing me and I'm fairly relaxed without using a lot of strength I can resist this push and how hard were you pushing there he's putting all the strength in there and I'm just standing there not using too much strength so the key is don't fight strength so in Tai Chi you'll teach you how to use structure the structure of your skeletal structure of your bones, of your joints, of your alignment and also of your mind of what the intention is in order to resist force using just structure so one of the key things that you need to have structure well there's three mistakes that people make that destroy structure in Tai Chi and very few people that actually practice Tai Chi actually know and actually experience so stay tuned and I'm going to show you those to you mistake number three is not being relaxed so a lot of people are confused about relaxation and about being placid there's two different things for example if I'm being placid he pushes and that's placid there's nothing there I think it's placid but being relaxed in concept called Song means it's being loose but relaxed but still have structure so he's pushing he's pushing harder, harder, harder I'm relaxing, my hands are relaxed but he's pushing harder, harder I'm still relaxed see how it relaxes my arm I'm still able to resist them so that's the difference between being Song which means loose and placid but in English we use the word relaxation which is very easy to misinterpret so number one key when you practice your Tai Chi for example, practice your Tai Chi your hands are always relaxed there's only a tense state and a relaxed state now when we go to the gym most people practice being tense use your muscles tense up to get more power which is okay, it works if you practice being tense all the time if you practice being tense then if you're fighting against someone bigger than you you're at a disadvantage because his force will be stronger than your force so rather than use force I use Song I use relaxation so when you practice your Tai Chi make sure that your hands are not open like this because that's too much tension because your hands are not closed like this because that's too much tension just be in the middle when it's relaxed, it's completely relaxed imagine holding an egg in your hand when you're open just open them slightly just stretch them out a little bit when you're relaxed, relaxed when you're open, just open a little you always want to feel the energy ball in the palms of your hands so it's very subtle for example, when I do this I'm combining two things my hands are lifting up at the same time, my hands are going from relaxed to slightly open and then back to relaxed slightly open it's a very minor detail but what that does is it teaches you even though you're using tension see my hands are slightly open that I'm still in a relaxed state so I never go from I never go up to 100% I go up to maybe 60 to 70% tension never go above that because once you go above that then you start to use force if you stay below let's say 60% tension then you're not using force, you're using relaxation and the key to Tai Chi is to train yourself so that you can still use relaxation at 60% 50% 40% 30% eventually using no tension at all to be able to resist someone with force so that's what takes the training that's what takes the many many hours repetition and training doing the push hands that we just showed you in the demonstration doing that for a lot then you can learn how to use relaxation mistake number two in Tai Chi is to not use your Dan Tian or not use your core center of gravity to direct the movements so there's a very simple movement called followed hands so I'm using my core to direct my body with one hand see how my core is moving in a circle to direct my arm so the core or the Dan Tian leads the arms sun dai sau that's what I say in Chinese the body leads the hand so that's number two mistake here's how it looks like when you make the mistake see a difference my hand is leading my core so there's very little power or connection when I'm moving my hand I'm just moving my hand I'm not even leading it with the core now I'll do it correctly so how you can practice is actually put your finger or put your hand and your fingers touch your belly button and then feel it move before your hand moves so now you get the difference and the difference you can tell let's see I'm just using my hand like this just my hand pain wise how much is that one to ten one to ten about a four okay now I'm using my hip I mean using my Dan Tian how much pain more pain is there it brings it up to about a seven a seven right and I didn't use more power I just used my waist and if I use more I can get it up to ten right so that's the key of generating power is to use your Dan Tian so let me show you demonstration in the 24 move Tai Chi form of how to use the Dan Tian to guide your hands so let me show you the wrong way of doing this okay I'm trying very hard to doing the wrong way because I practice so much the proper way but what I'm doing is I'm leading with my hands and then I move my body so a very basic fundamental in early Tai Chi if you're a beginner is to learn how to move your hips now when you get advanced Tai Chi you actually do the opposite you learn to move your hands before your hips it's contradictory isn't it but I'll show you how to do that in the next lesson or in a later lesson and it goes with the concept that Bruce Lee taught which is to move your hands before your feet just like in fencing you want to move your hands before your feet the reason is because when somebody attacks you I don't have time to move my hip first and do a big Tai Chi move right if somebody attacks me I have to move my hand first so what's the difference before you learn Tai Chi they move their hands first but there's no power and then they'll practice Tai Chi and then they'll learn how to use the hips to get power but they practice enough Tai Chi and now they'll go back to the beginning they use their hands first but now it comes with power how does that happen so let me show you again I don't have time to move my hips and do a big Tai Chi move like in a lot of demonstrations I only have time to just move my hand up but there's power there how does that happen I just move my hand and then my body I move my hand and then my body I didn't move my hip first just me moving my hips first too slow I have to go one, two you already hit me I just do it so that I hit with my hand first so how does that work maybe in a later lesson I can show you how to do that mistake number one that you can make in Tai Chi is to not sink your tailbone which means not to open your back now I'm going to show Will for example because I'm wearing a jacket you can't see so you see if you take this shirt and tighten it up the spine has a curve here so most people have that curve naturally but in Tai Chi you actually don't want that curve in Tai Chi you want to get rid of that curve so you want to sink down the tailbone so that you can feel that this is flatter and ideally it's actually a C so what you need to do is sink your tailbone down even more suck in your gut and then stretch this out like this so now I can feel it's lower back it's straightening up but still not enough you want it to stick out push out over here push push push and now you can feel that it's more like a C where I've started about before see how see how it's like an S so you don't want that and you can see a lot of people doing Tai Chi with a back like this it's actually very bad for your back and also it makes you disconnected it disconnects your upper body with your lower body the key to having a strong core and Dan Qian is to connect your upper body with your lower body and this is the main mistake that people make by having the S-curve of the spine and what it does is disconnect your body so for example I'm going to do an S-curve on purpose my spine is like my belly sticking out I'm trying to and he pushes on my hand see I'll automatically go back there's no resistance but now I stick my back out and make this into a C and now he pushes on it what happened? it's more rooted see what happens when you curve your back is now that energy transfer goes straight through your spine and then into your hips and into the legs into the knees and into the ground when you break that connection by curving your spine now all the energy just goes in your spine it doesn't go to your legs so that's why he pushes that energy goes to the spine and then I go so that's the number one mistake that you can make in Tai Chi so when you practice your Tai Chi make sure that you always check put my hand back behind my back see if it's straight it's a C so even when you do your moves think about that think that the spine is going to be straight that's what you can do it's to do very slow squats against the wall so that's the wall against me I want to first put my back against the wall and see if there's any space behind my back see if I slip my hand behind my back if there's a space that I can slip my hand behind then there's too much space so I need to get rid of that space I want all my spine to be touching the wall once I get that then I can go up and down just go half way so that's why I spine up and down the wall now after I do that and I'm good at it then I can go all the way down all the way down keeping my spine straight and touching the wall all the way and going slow like this so that's going to be very hard on your lower back but it strengthens your lower back it strengthens your leg so that's one key in Tai Chi of so the bonus mistake that you can make in Tai Chi is doing it too fast I know everybody says this you want to do Tai Chi slow but many people don't understand why you do Tai Chi so slow well today we talked about three mistakes number one, relaxation number two, using your Dan Tian to lead your hands and number three, having a proper spine alignment what do all those things mean all those things mean your whole body integration of your whole body if your hand moves your whole body moves if your feet move, your whole body moves everything's connected and the reason we do Tai Chi so slow is that we're training that connectedness and it's impossible to train it doing it fast that's why we do it slow if we can do it fast and still get connectedness then everybody would do Tai Chi fast but the reason we do it slow is because Tai Chi doing it slow is probably the only way you can train that connectedness in your body by combining all the techniques that we learned relaxation, leading with the Dan Tian and later on how to use your breath to relax and connect your body to and your mind so there's many aspects of learning how to connect your whole body and mind as an integrated machine integrated unit in order to function totally and holistically so when it comes in you sink your chest so you press here like I'm pretty solid because you're pushing down to expand my chest and then you go from there there's actually sink your chest and expand your chest so now there's another not going mechanism that blends so there's blending and it's sinking more and it sinks down to the body so the chin is tucked chest is in and then you push hard as well it's not going anywhere you expand a bit and you know what we all found so you contract yeah easily we balance it hard because when you can try you feel like oh I can push the guy right you feel like you can push me you think you got me right don't use this just relax when you push on here I'm just using my whole structure in my body so this is actually touching my body I let you in so you feel like you got me right there's actually more alright just relax this whole thing just relax this whole thing suck in everything so it feels like oh yeah I got you now but you feel like now it's on your back leg right now you just expand yeah okay I'm already so new so let put that into your your cushion so you're sucking so I'm already sucked in I'm already expanding but then you need to make sure the elbow so if I go like this push it up when you try to elbow me like this you do that elbow me at least I can control the elbow then if you feel yourself moving this way you're going to change it to here so you need to suck in this is sucking in just a second and then expand when you're pushing in step here and I bump into you like that right I've stepped through deeper my feet haven't touched the ground yet and I've already made contact so now all the momentum is going through you instead of going to the ground okay I'll stand here and you can try so you got to step really deep so I step with this foot or this one like that so that works too but that's not the technique so I'm here you want to take my place so here's my center you want to be there so my foot basically has to be here let's see how deep you have to go that's better 24 you straight? it's almost straight I'm trying to drop my height down because I feel like when I get here my shoulder is here is this one technique to use your shoulder? that's for a more combata because you can use your shoulder bone but for training you're just going to bump into the chest so relax your shoulder don't do this okay don't stick it out like this I'm trying to pull it back so just relax alright I'm David Wong and in this video I'm going to show you the three mistakes in Tai Chi that are very common that people make so one of the main advantages of learning Tai Chi is for health for your joints for your bones for breathing for relaxation and meditation you learn a concept called rooting or sinking so as you can see in the demonstration we'll hear how much do you weigh 220 pounds look at his muscles look at his arms, holy cow he's as big as my leg I'm only about 150 pounds look at my skinny arms and I'm able to resist and pushing me and I'm fairly relaxed without using a lot of strength what are you pushing there? about 90 to 100% he's putting all his strength in there and I'm just standing there not using too much strength so the key is don't fight strength don't fight force with force so in Tai Chi you'll teach you how to use structure the structure of your skeletal structure of your bones, of your joints, of your alignment and also of your mind of what the intention is in order to resist force so one of the key things that you need to have structure well there's three mistakes that people make that destroy structure in Tai Chi and very few people that actually practice Tai Chi actually know and actually experience and know how to do this so stay tuned and I'm going to show you those to you mistake number three is not being relaxed so a lot of people are confused about relaxation and about being placid there's two different things if I'm being placid he pushes and that's placid right there's nothing there I think it's placid but being relaxed in a concept called shong in Chinese it's being loose but relaxed but still have structure so he's pushing he's pushing harder, harder, harder I'm relaxing, my hands relax when he's pushing harder, harder I'm still relaxed my arms and I'm still able to resist them okay so that's the difference between being shong which means loose and placid but in English we use the word relaxation which is very easy to misinterpret so number one key when you practice your Tai Chi for example practice your Tai Chi, your hands are always relaxed there's only a 10 state and a relaxed state now when we go to the gym most people practice being tense use your muscles tense up to get more power which is okay it works but if you practice being tense all the time practice being tense then if you're fighting against someone bigger than you you're at a disadvantage because his force will be stronger than your force so rather than use force I use Song I use relaxation so when you practice your Tai Chi make sure that your hands are not open like this because that's too much tension because your hands are not closed like this because that's too much tension your hands should always be in the middle when it's relaxed, it's completely relaxed imagine holding an egg in your hand when you're open just open them slightly just stretch them out a little bit when you're relaxed, relaxed when you're open, just open a little you always want to feel an energy ball in the palms of your hands so it's very subtle for example, when I do this I'm combining two things first of all, my hands are lifting up at the same time my hands are going from relaxed to slightly open and then back to relaxed slightly open it's a very minor detail even though you're using tension see my hands are slightly open that I'm still in a relaxed state so I never go from I never go up to 100% I go up to maybe 60 to 70% tension never go above that because once you go above that then you start to use force if you stay below, let's say 60% tension then you're not using force you're using relaxation and the key to Tai Chi is to train yourself relaxation at 60%, 50%, 40%, 30% eventually using no tension at all to be able to resist someone with force so that's what takes the training that's what takes the many many hours repetition and training doing the push hands that we just showed you in the demonstration doing that for a lot, then you can learn how to use relaxation mistake number two in Tai Chi is to not use your Dan Tian or not use your core center of gravity to direct the movements so there's a very simple movement called followed hands so I'm using my core to direct my body just say I'm using just one hand see how my core is moving in a circle to direct my arm so the core or the Dan Tian leads the arms that's what I say in Chinese the body leads the hand so that's number two mistake here's how it looks like when you make the mistake see the difference my hand is leading my core so there's very little power or connection when I'm moving my hand I'm just moving my hand, I'm not even leading it with the core now here's what you're doing correctly so how you can practice is actually put your finger or put your hand and fingers touch your belly button and feel that move before your hand moves so now you get the difference and the difference you can tell, let's see I'm just using my hand like this just my hand pain wise how much is that you got a facility one to ten about four now I'm using my hip I'm using my Dan Tian how much pain more pain is there about seven and I didn't use more power I just used my waist and if I use more I can get it up to ten so that's the key of generating power is to use your Dan Tian so let me show you a demonstration in the 24 move Tai Chi form how to use the Dan Tian to guide your hands so let me show you the wrong way of doing this I'm trying very hard to do it the wrong way because I practice so much the proper way but what I'm doing is I'm leading with my hands and then I move my body so a very basic fundamental in early Tai Chi if you're a beginner is to learn how to move your hips now when you get advanced Tai Chi you actually do the opposite you learn to move your hands before your hips it's contradictory isn't it but I'll show you how to do that in the next lesson or in a later lesson and it goes with the concept that Bruce Lee taught which is to move your hands before your feet just like in fencing you want to move your hands before your feet the reason is because when somebody attacks you I don't have time to move my hip first and do a big Tai Chi move right if somebody attacks me I have to move my hand first so what's the difference before you learn Tai Chi they move their hands first but there's no power and then they'll learn how to use the hips to get power but they practice enough Tai Chi and now they'll go back to the beginning they use their hands first but now it comes with power how does that happen so let me show you again I don't have time to move my hips and do a big Tai Chi move like in a lot of demonstrations I only have time to just move my hand up but there's power there how does that happen I just move my hand I'm not moving my hand and then my body I move my hand and then my body I didn't move my hip first just moving my hips first too slow right I have to go one, two you already hit me but now I want to do it so that I move my hand first how does that work maybe in a later lesson I can show you how to do that mistake number one that you can make in Tai Chi is to not sink your tailbone which means not to open your back now I'm going to show Will for example because I'm wearing a jacket you can't see so you see if you take this shirt and tighten it up the spine has a curve here so most people have that curve naturally but in Tai Chi you actually don't want that curve in Tai Chi you want to get rid of that curve so you want to sink down the tailbone so that you can feel that this is flatter and ideally it's actually a C, it's a cup so what you need to do is sink your tailbone down even more suck in your gut and then stretch this out like this so now I can feel it's lower back, it's straightening up but still not enough, you want it to stick out push out over here, push, push, push that's better so now you can feel that it's more like a C whereas starting about before see how it's like an S so you don't want that people doing Tai Chi with a back like this is actually very bad for your back and also it makes you disconnected it disconnects your upper body with your lower body the key to having a strong core and Dan Qian is to connect your upper body with your lower body and this is the main mistake that people make by having the S curve of the spine and what it does is disconnects your body so for example I'm going to do an S curve on purpose my spine is like my belly sticking out and he pushes on my hind push, push, push see, I'll automatically go back there's no resistance but now I stick my back out I drop my hip and make this into a C and now he pushes on it what happened? you're more rooted it's rooted what happens when you curve your back now that energy transfer goes straight through your spine and into your hips and into the legs into the knees and into the ground when you break that connection by curving your spine now all the energy just goes in your spine it doesn't go to your legs so that's why he pushes that energy goes to the spine and then I go so that's the number one mistake that you can make in Tai Chi so when you practice your Tai Chi remember that you always check put my hand back behind my back if it's straight, if it's a C you don't want to be like this so even when you do your moves think about that think that the spine is going to be straight one exercise you can do is to do very slow squats against the wall I want to first put my back against the wall and see if there's any space behind my back if there's a space that I can sleep my hand behind then there's too much space so I need to get rid of that space I want all my spine to be touching the wall once I get that then I can go up and down just go halfway and go back up sliding my spine up and down the wall now after I do that and I'm good at it then I can go all the way down keeping my spine straight and touching the wall all the way and go in slow like this so that's going to be very hard on your lower back but it strengthens your lower back it strengthens your leg so that's one key in Tai Chi of creating connectedness so stay tuned, I'm going to show you the bonus mistake that people make so the bonus mistake that you can make in Tai Chi is doing it too fast I know everybody says this you want to do Tai Chi slow why you do Tai Chi so slow well today we talked about three mistakes number one, relaxation number two, using your Dan Tian to lead your hands and number three, having a proper spine alignment what do all those things mean all those things mean connectedness of your whole body integration of your whole body if your hand moves your whole body moves if your feet move, your whole body moves everything's connected the reason we do Tai Chi so slow is that we're training that connectedness and it's impossible to train it doing it fast that's why we do it slow if we can do it fast and still get connectedness then everybody would do Tai Chi fast but the reason we do it slow is because Tai Chi doing it slow is probably the only way you can train that connectedness in your body by combining all the techniques that we learned relaxation leading with the Dan Tian and later on how to use your breath to relax and connect your body to and your mind so there's many aspects of learning how to connect your whole body and mind as an integrated machine integrated unit in order to function totally and holistically when it comes in, you sink your chest so you press here like I'm pretty solid here you're pushing down to my head and then you go there's actually sink your chest and expand your chest so now there's another not going mechanism that blends so there's blending and sinking more so when you're sinking it sinks down to the body so the chin is tucked chest is in and then you push hard as well it's not going anywhere expand a bit so you contract yeah easily when we balance so hard because when you can try and you feel like oh I can push the guy right? you feel like you can push me you feel like you've gotten me right don't use this just relax when you push in here I'm just using my whole structure in my body this is actually to touch my body and let you in so you feel like you've gotten me right there's actually more alright alright just relax this whole thing suck in everything so it feels like oh yeah I got you now that's on your back leg right? now you just expand yeah okay alright so new put that into your cushion already I'm already sucked in ideally I want to but then you need to make sure the elbow cap the elbow so if I go like this push it up there but you try to elbow me like this you do that okay at least I can control the elbow alright then if you feel yourself moving this way you're right there you're just going to change it to here alright so you need to cap the elbow


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First of all, sir, we in this country are spending an enormous amount of money on armaments, and we are accused throughout most of Europe of being more war-minded than other people. Yet your country is spending more than we are. Is that correct, sir? Well, I think if you take it in comparative figures as to percentage of national income, I think that we have unfortunately been forced to spend for defense and even a higher percentage of our national income than in this country. In other words, of all the nations outside the Iron Curtain, your nation has spent more of its effort, devoted more of its effort to armaments in the last few years than any other nation. It would not be another statement to say so. Mr. Mattis, what sort of armaments are you building? Well, I am no expert in military questions. I couldn't give you a list of products of our armaments industries, but I suppose that it would be a large variety of light and medium weapons and other equipment. How many divisions have you got roughly? I know you don't know exactly. Well, again, I don't know these figures, but I have heard that the number of about 30 divisions has been quoted. I should say it might be a fair guess. 30? 30, yes. Well, why, sir? Why are you arming so rapidly? Who are you arming against? We are arming against no one. We are arming to preserve our independence. And as you may know, and I suppose your viewers would know it, that independence of my country has been very strongly and rudely questioned by the Soviet Union and countries in the Soviet bloc since 1948. You are the one nation that has successfully broken away from the Soviet bloc. Well, that's right. And of course, that is the principal threat to your national independence at the moment. Yes, yes. How long do you think you can keep up this very large burden of armament? Well, it is a very high burden and the percentage of the national income as it was at its peak in last year, 23% of the national income, that means 23 cents of every dollar earned in the country, is a very heavy burden. And I think that any country and any economy would suffer heavily if it should continue for a longer period of time. Now, what is the United States helping you materially in this defense effort? Yes, we are receiving assistance in armament equipment of various types from the United States. We are receiving some assistance also from Great Britain and France, but the amount and number we receive from the United States is by far higher. In other words, now you're getting valuable assistance from us. First of all, you're getting military aircraft, are you not? Yes, there are military aircraft, tanks, guns and other equipment. And are we training some of your people in our country now? We have officers who come to the United States and are being trained in the training camps and establishments of the United States. And are there American technicians now with your armed forces? And there is a number of technicians which accompany the equipment. Now, sir, on our program recently, Admiral Zacharias noted American intelligence authority commented on the fact that perhaps Yugoslavia knows more about what's going on in Russia than any of the rest of us. And I'm sure that our viewers would appreciate a statement from you on this. How do you, with your knowledge of Russia, how do you interpret some of the things that are going on in Russia now? Well, I think that these developments have mainly two causes. One is the deadlock into which Soviet foreign policy has come, the failure they have had in many parts of the world. Well, one, and I think the first major setback and failure and defeat, if I may say, in a Cold War, Blitzkrieg was against Yugoslavia. And then they have suffered defeats in other respects. If we take the first part of this assembly of the United Nations with the resolution submitted by India and voted on by almost all nations of the United Nations, I think that they have found themselves isolated in a very bad spot. On the other hand, I think that the internal situation in the Soviet Union, and particularly the critical situation which has developed since the death of Stalin, has forced them to try to make the government more popular among the people in the Soviet Union and to find some way to acquiesce the resistance and resentment of the people in the Soviet Union. I think that this necessity, the weakness internally and externally, has forced them to do this most. Well then, Mr. Matta, you think that their long-range aims remain the same, that of conquering as much of the world as they can? Well, I should not like to express myself at this moment of what the aims and the final and long-range aims of Soviet policy will be. I think it is much more important than to guess on such things to think about what the rest of the world has to do. And I think that there should be made all efforts to bring about an easing of tension in the world, but at the same time to be strong enough to make every possible aggressor to respect our freedom and independence. Well, Yugoslavia has done a lot to ease tension and keep the peace in the last few years, hasn't it? That's what we are, what is the main basis of our foreign policy. But we think that it is not enough to wish peace and to wish easing of tension. As I said, we first must be strong, and that's why we devoted so much energy to building up our defense. Well, Mr. Matta is in the minds of our viewers, of course, here in the United States. There are a number of questions about Yugoslavia itself.   Yes, I think I should first remind you that nowadays, and perhaps not only nowadays, words are being used with different meanings attached to them. Well, briefly, what's the difference between your type of communism and the Moscow type? Well, I think the first thing which I should say is that we do not think that we possess the stone of wisdom and the monopoly of knowledge. And in the question of the internal organization of the state, we do not believe that the citizens of the state do exist to satisfy the aspirations of the rulers. Do you allow any political freedoms? There is in Yugoslavia a very free discussion on all issues of public life, and may I say that this is the strength of our country. When the attack in the resolution of the coming form in 1948 came, we immediately made an issue of public discussion and the declaration of war, cold war, I mean, on the side of Russia was published in all our newspapers together with the defiance. Can the voters of Yugoslavia vote for more than one person for each office? Yes, they can and they do. In the last elections, for instance, for the legislature of one of the component republics of our Federation for Serbia, the average was two and a half candidates to each person to be killed. During the existence of the Nazi-Soviet pact when Moscow and Hitler were allied, was your group an allied with, were you a party to the Soviet-Nazi pact? No, I don't quite understand. If you think of Yugoslavia as a state, there was made an attempt by the last pre-war government in Yugoslavia. I mean your particular group, the Tito group in Yugoslavia, were you supporters of the Nazi-Soviet pact? We were supporters of our own independence and as the situation developed since the pact between Russia and Germany, the danger for our own independence increased and my political party undertook measures to increase the defense power of the country. Two very brief questions, sir. First of all, are Americans welcome to come to Yugoslavia now? Yes, and they do. Tourists can go to Yugoslavia this summer? Yes, visas are being issued without any permission being required from Central Latvia. And is there any religious freedom in Yugoslavia now? Yes, there is a freedom for worship and religion. And as a final question, sir, we Americans realized that we even extended aid to the present Chinese communist leader at one time and then he turned on us and we've had to reform us. Now, what do you think that we should regard Tito and your government as a more reliable group than other communist groups that we have been perhaps disillusioned with? I should like to quote a sentence from a speech at the luncheon party I was present when the President Tito addressed the British Foreign Minister Eden and on that occasion he said that Yugoslavia has never let down its allies. Well, thank you very much for being with us this evening, sir. Thank you. 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There it is. I think some big-time lawyer. He's going to lip-bite in that one I bet she's after his client list to find new targets Hate to admit it, but she's one smart cat Halfway there. So that's that one. Let's go ahead and get this one. I skipped over this one. I don't know why Spider-man literally seeking out clouds of smog to swing through is this the behavior of a sane individual? I'll tell you what's going on here when I was a lad. There was a problem with juvenile delinquents Sipping glue to get hot knowing spider-man's weak moral characters real seeking personality I guess the same principle is it work here? Oh, Jay Jonah. Don't you ever change? He's swinging through the city hopped up on smog Good God Jay Jonah. Don't you ever change? He's just keeping busy But I'm catching up crazy man. Let's see where she hit this time. I might have to zoom in to get this one again Oh, no, I feel it there it is I find the cat I see your picture. Oh, there is Cornelius fan once place She must be working for someone Man this game Jay Jonas dude. I like the Jay Jonah. I mean it's not what's his face from from the from the Toby series But he sees up there. This guy's doing good. So that's that one there Wow, there's two more. Dude. This is where I started. These were not here. Oh my goodness 3001 Hopped up on smog Exactly. How do you get the move where you jump and spin the web around you? Oh, that's that's this move It's called Actually, I think it's a soup power Yeah, this is the soup power that you get with the classic suit called web loss Two months in a row, I've shown some Burnley chat all the beard That bed is sexy that bed is sexy that bed is sexy that bed is sexy that bed is sexy That bed is sexy that bed is sexy that bed is sexy that bed is sexy that bed is sexy Thank You Panda for the two months in a row I don't I don't remember How I got the classic suit but once you get the classic suit you get web blossom and it is really good. It is Extremely overpowered And so I'm gonna do a really good job with this game. I'm proud of I mean I was so hyped after seeing all the all the All the coverage for the past couple years like at E3's and PAX's trailers and stuff dev videos I've been so hyped for this And they did not disappoint it's actually meeting the hype Which is kind of hard to do They put a lot of love into this game I Mean there's a there's so many little things where you can tell What is just they just they just tried to think of everything you can say that they They put forth a lot of effort to think of everything and not And not cut corners, man. It's like a lot of stuff. You just feel the love Mr. Again 50 million This means she's never gonna stop chat Another cat this picture by there You can see the food the bag Cat says play time. Why do you keep putting me on this? I'm trying to get the map crazy game All right, let's get this one And we got that one and we got that one. So we're just gonna go back up along this line Some sticky hands She's just close to her goal. I've got to put an end to this and fast This area is full of Wall Street guys target rich environment She's got the billboard chat look at this Get it. There's a pigeons All right, where's the cat there this She's obviously familiar with these places and that gives me an idea how to catch her well, that's how you Let me know what I just did a little Tokyo, huh? She's leading me on a chase, but that's what's gonna help me find her Feeding all the past locations before the crime is over narrow down her likely point of origin I was too late to stop her here a one or two more locations should give me enough data to pinpoint her hideout Crimes over chat. I'm sad. I think it's gonna stay night until I go to the feast Which is kind of cool because I like the night Just give me the night. I don't think it's gonna change daytime until I go over there and go to sleep Forever night chat I Am the night the adapter to the night. I was bored of it Moves it by it That went the wrong way It's okay though You can change direction so fast in this and that's cool I mean they could they could have put some silly momentum-based stuff in here But they just decided to break all the laws of physics and Spiderman wants to turn on a dime with like maximum velocity He can do it because it's a comic book character. You know what and that's fine Now fine, I'll do it dude. What do I need to do to get a freaking um Estles Wow, I did it outside of range chat That's the stuff you don't want to see you hate to see it chat.  Okay, that didn't work. I have you now Don't worry, I'll get another one. Oh my gosh Come here, okay, don't get all the pain. I got some for y'all Including me. I'm gonna get you with a bomb. I'm over here. I'm out here.  I've got to get you. I can't get him. It's enough for you. You people I did all the things. I don't even know what they wanted. I just tried to mix it up with everything Give me the night.  Oh Felicia, I can't get up there. You made this on this building for you knew what you know my weakness Okay, we're good. I think it's close to her goal And I've still got way too big an area to search got an arrow it down Every data point helps who she robbed where they live Spider cop spider cop knows all chat Hello, Kat. I think lonesome pinky lives here Stealing from a country singer. She's getting creative, but I'm getting closer one more ought to do it You better get closer Peter Cuz it's right there It's actually right there And by right there. I don't know where it is. I guess it hasn't popped. Oh, there it is. I see it. I see that I saw it the last second chat the last second I'll take in the button with a smiley smile. Everybody's awesome. Love the chat. Thank you so much for 24 months platinum badge smile Thank you so much buddy. How you doing, man? How you been? That time we made it Last one chat one more location should give me the data. I need to find that problem I have to fight her or something my rough estimate while she flirts with me cuz that's how black cat is I Felt it. There it is and she might go straight Give me my suit That's the gallery where they keep the jade tiger. Let's see the black cat soup chat I've got to run my algorithm and find Felicia quick. Wait, maybe I'll get it yet Found her hideout gotta get there before she leaves town. I don't see new soup chat Okay, I guess I have to finish the mission All right fine Fine There it is over there about over there. I mean over there Can't mark that but it's not showing up on the map Is it? I think that's it. I don't know It looks like it is a different color blue Are you like a new Spidey game dude? It is amazing. It is amazing. That's all I gotta say it is They have outdone themselves. They have exceeded my expectations It's not hard. I mean not hard to do which is the not easy to do I Had high expectations for this and they exceeded them Oh crap There's very little is really challenging to find things. I don't like about this game That's how good it is. I'm just I'm having trouble finding things wrong with it and I see why people gave it a Ten out of ten my web shooter overheating. Oh cuz it was crime never mind Hating out to get this happy whistling. All right, Mariner. Do it. This is so fun What is this this is the right spot, but I don't see anything Excuse me. Pardon me. Must be underneath this never mind Freedom tunnel Before feast started. This was a haven for New York's homeless Mostly abandoned now good hiding spot must be a hidden entrance or something Okay hideout entrance. I see absolutely nothing anywhere. Let's be up top or something That would be I abandoned the mission. I was trying to get rid of that dialogue, but I abandoned the mission Now get back on it, please Before feast started. This was a haven for New York's homeless mostly abandoned now good hiding spot Must be a hidden entrance or something Bingo. Oh, it was right there the whole time. This looks like everything she stole Financial data on the mage of crime families. Is she trying to blackmail them? Here's a safe that same safe from mom. What's this wine from a mage of vineyard? Wow, no, I've just been a game. Could it? Wow, look at this suit.  What how that place is like Fort Knox All those cats you found when they were all together in the evidence room They linked up boosted their signal and deactivated the alarms. No one even saw her sneak in She knew I'd find the cats and report them to you. She played me. Yes, you did What'd she take just her old costume and gear she let me find 50 million worth of loot just so she could get her stuff back Which means she's got something even bigger play it. She played you good. Are you smiling? You sound like you're smiling First time I caught Felicia she was trying to steal this looks like she finally went back to finish the job This is kind of a cool It's just like put the suit on, you know, this is not a bad suit. I mean, it's very simple, but it's not bad at all What's super came with it? I don't think any super came with it. No, okay Dude, that's a nice suit though All right, so let's uh Let's go to sleep I'm supposed to be crashing at the Supposed to be going to sleep at the at the shelter That's why a daytime hasn't come yet So it's been like forever night Like I got the black cat stuff done, which is cool. Let's put it on. Let's put it on. Let's see how I like it a flying shadow Oh crime There's one guy left That is so funny that one attack got everybody except one that is so good This young lady in me. I kind of missed chat or give her a second chance Is it because he's naive or is he just thinking with his web?   So So it's gonna be a heavy P&A statement. I'm gonna be like this this game here How could you pick anything we've got because I can dude? And I missed. All right, we're back here Welcome to feast. I believe I haven't slept since the fisk takedown Gotta start taking better care of myself Where's the bed? There we go I was about to web up there What are you doing here at this hour? I'm going to sleep. What do you think I'm doing? I'm one of you now. I got evicted. Yeah, some questions.  Oh peter. Here's some money $300 I can't take this You can and you will I'm gonna tell mom.  How long will you be away? I really don't know Is everything okay? It's some personal business. I've been planning for a while But please take care of this place It represents the best part of me Well, I guess I better get busy And off we go Oh, mr. Lee's okay Hello I did Robbie must be pretty happy right now Yeah, it kind of went viral and get this mayor osborn just announced He's going to give officer davis an award this afternoon. Wow Wait, isn't osborn's campaign rally this afternoon? Oh, I see what he's doing Yeah, we all do but still a pretty cool moment for officer davis and his family. I'll be there