Grandmaster Tse’s Qigong Dao 氣功道 466

I was recently teaching a very senior student online. She has been studying for over 30 years and teaches her own classes. She knows the 1^st 64 of the Wild Goose Qigong very well, but as I was demonstrating it, she noticed that some parts of the movement I seemed to do much quicker than she did and so she asked me, “Why is that movement so fast?” She was asking about movement no. 48 “Hold Qì 抱氣”, which comes after no. 47 “Turn Body and Rotate Qì Ball 轉身揉球” the movement, In the movement, we lift the Qì ball up to the Sky-Eye. We then separate the hands to the side, bend down and form a big Qì ball. What the student did was slightly different, she would start to bend down as she began to separate her hands from the Sye-Eye. So of course, as I bend down when my hands are already out to the side it appears as if I bend down much quicker.  I only bend down after the Qì ball as been split into two, but my body must bend down by the time my hands form the big Qì ball for Qì and movement to connect. I do not start to bend the body as the hands begin to separate the Qì ball as this actually releases the Qì, which is not the meaning of this movement.