The following is an email from my Manila student, Julius, who
researched and discovered the true way of practising LHBF and all
internal martial arts. Comments anyone?

Peter O
Anyway, I'm writing to clarify something you mentioned several
times during practice. If I remember right, you said that ultimately
you "use the bones" to move the body in LHBF. Now I came across the
writings of a person who practiced Tai Chi for 20 years then studied
the Feldenkrais Method. He said there were similarities in their
principles, namely:
1. Use the brain and awareness to direct movement.
2. Move slowly to do a move correctly and consciously and also to
avoid
falling back on bad habitual movements.
3. Use the skeleton to maintain contact with the ground and use it
to support the body and free the muscles to do movements
efficiently
quickly and effortlessly.
He went into a lot more detail but basically he was saying muscles
weren't meant to carry weight or fight gravity; that was the purpose
of bones if properly aligned. He cited a Chinese saying that points
out that "one should move with an empty foot" meaning not to commit
weight to the moving foot until it has rested on solid ground. He
added that the fighting prowess of internal martial arts masters is
attributable to their using the bones to align with gravity and
freeing their musculature to respond quickly and correctly to an
opponent, after sensing his intentions based on touch or an expanded
awareness.
Is this in line with your mention about the use of bones and does
standing develop this ability aside from nurturing chi?