Now you're just playing semantic games and your on my turf.Bill Glasheen wrote: I will get my Sil Lim Tao book and find some of those classic "chamber" positions. It's just more fluid, Jim, but it's still there. It's just the method of teaching (the finger) and not the desired end (the moon).
The whole idea is to minimize time to target and maximize continuity of attack and time in contact, in addition to centerline occupation, conservation of motion and energy that’s what’s in the form.
There are five fist punches in the first form... None are done from under the armpit.. Most of the open hand strikes fire from ¾ fully extended structural positions. If you want to say that a scant few inches of elastic retraction or hitting from an extended bridge position <tan> a "chamber" then by all means, but it misses the whole point of the form and the system.
Try initiating even a tiny chamber while sticking in chi sao with someone decent and see what happens..