十三操外加一: 倒轉乾坤First additional step of 13 steps

在第一張十三操手稿裡，細心的人應該發覺到，十三操最後結束後，周師父又多加了二式。這另外加的二式，必須在十三操做得很熟之後，才能再加做的二式。

外加第一式為「倒轉乾坤」。全身放鬆，雙手舉起過頭，力貫雙手，整個人像個車輪般，向右側手翻翻過去。

剛開始時也許會害怕，慢慢調整身體和地面的角度，久而久之就會習慣。當身體翻轉起來時，從側面看，應該是和地面成九十度。周師父說，當人的身體成倒立的姿勢時，整身的經脈氣血都是不順的，然而我們需要習慣這種不順，這樣如果遇到什麼意外時，才不會因一時的頭下腳上而天旋地轉，昏天暗地到無法反應而受傷。

If you look carefully enough, you can see there were 2 steps had been added after 13 steps on 13 steps sketch. You have to be very fluent of 13 steps before you start to do those 2 additional steps.

The first additional step is "heaven and earth reversal". It's just an idea, which means to turn your body upside-down.
Relax your whole body, raise your arms over your head, focus on your hands, then do a right-hand side flit like a wheel.

You may be frighten at the beginning, adjust the angle of your body with the ground once at the time, you will get use to it after a while. When you are doing the flit, your body should be vertical with the ground.

Sifu Zhou said, when your body is upside-down, your vein and chi should be unnatural and uncomfortable, but we have to get use to this kind of feeling. Once if we ran into some accident, we won't get hurt easily because we were flying upside-down and couldn't protect ourselves.

Taiwan style shampoo(2)

Here is the layout of a typical Taiwanese hair salon, upper-left-hand-side is the front door, lower-right-hand-side is the restroom, counter, chairs, and other stuff. One cup of tea on the lower-left-hand-stand, one cup of coffee on the right.

When Wingtsung girl Miao-wen went to a hair salon, she went to number one chair first, then an assistant came to her, asked her if she would like to have tea or coffee first( some home style salon won't have this kind of service).

















①: Then the assistant squirted out the shampoo on Miao-wen's head. Usually, a scalp massage and shampoo all in one.


②: 10 minutes later, they went over to the sink to rinse off.


③: Then, returning to the chair, the back massage begun. Then the assistant started to blow dry Miao-wen's hair.


④: Miao-wen paid it out front happily.

In Taiwan, people can go to hair salon just for shampooing, cutting, dyeing etc.. People can do it all together or separate. I guess this is a very special, very Taiwanese experience tourists must have.

We say:
shampoo 洗頭 xi-tou
haircut 剪髮 jian-fa

I want to shampoo my hair.
我 要 洗 頭。
wo-yao-xi-tou

I want to get a haircut.
我 要 剪 髮。
wo-yao-jian-fa





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詠春基本理論(一)二字馬

詠春二字馬是馬開半步，坐馬時兩足尖和兩足跟會形成一個中文的「二」字。當雙足尖向前延伸交會時，會形成一個等腰三角形。三角腰長約如一手臂由肩頭至拳尖的長度。以這種馬步出拳，足部便有最強的抓地力。

站正身二字馬時必須放鬆沉穩，這裡和打太極前的預備式有些類似，也是要鬆腰鬆胯，尾閭中正。如此才能力從地起，腰馬合一。

Taiwan style shampoo (1)

I didn't realized how special Taiwan style shampoo is until Sky told me so.

Instead bringing customers to the sink and getting their hair wet, Taiwanese has its own unique way to do it. Usually the stylist will start with some head and shoulders' massage, the start to squirt out the shampoo on customer's hair while they sit on a chair. Some pricy beauty salon would offer tea or coffee to the customers, and may have a flat TV right in front them.


Here are some pictures I took on the streets. This one is just a home style hair salon. Less decoration and much cheaper price.


This salon is a little bit fancier, with nice lightning and colder interior decoration.

Well, since I am very shy and this is SO COMMON in Taiwan, I didn't dare to ask for permission of taking pictures inside... I was just standing outside of the salon and took some blurry pictures... you get the idea...

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阿兇語錄(一)

告訴你，我餓了。

I am hungry now.

全台最貴農地

其實台北市的綠地還蠻多的，愈精華的地方，奇怪的綠地愈多。

今天來看看全台灣最貴的一塊農地，位於台北世貿一館正對面。也就是圖中用紅箭頭指著的綠地。
從圖上就可以感覺出來這塊綠地有多大了吧。橫幅長度比台北101還長哦。

因為它的位置太好了，常有一些號稱大豪宅的小豪宅會借這塊地當廣告，把樣品屋蓋在這裡，讓人有種以後的「豪宅」也是要蓋在這裡。如果想去世貿看展，在附近找不到機車位，停這裡也蠻好，因為警察會說，這裡是私人用地，我們不能開單。


就這樣空著也怪可惜的，於是聰明人就來這裡種種有機蔬菜，地主也沒空來管。

說著說著，這會兒不是有個聰明人在這裡除草了嗎?

詠春基本理論概論

除了中線理論，詠春還有「二字馬」，「子午捶」和「不動肘」理論。

二字馬又稱二字拑羊馬。因為二腳力量平均，可攻可防。它是雙膝內扣並向前方推出，所以會形成一個三角形的結構，能有效地將身體的重量和動力向前集中，也能有效地應付來自前方的力量。

子午捶又稱日字衝捶。日字衝捶也是以中線理論為出發點，拳由中心發出時，是攻守線上最短的距離。

而其中最經典的，就是不動肘原理了。以肘部為軸而用手臂去防守時，可以避免自身動作過大，及以最精簡的手臂動作去完成最快速的攻守。

要把以上三點發揮到極致，第一要務就是放鬆，像打太極拳一樣地放鬆。放鬆之後才能沾黏對方。沾黏對方後更要懂得變化，隨時感覺對方的動作而做出適當的變化。無招無式，以無法為有法，以無限為有限，沒有一定的對應方法。然後就是時間、距離、位置的問題了。