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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shurai" data-source="post: 384813">Ohhhh, that kind of stuff.  Yeah we do that all the time.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious    :]" data-shortname=":]" />  I don't know the form yet where one pushes out as if to strike while maintaining a very tense resistance in the muscles, but we do have that sort of thing as a sort of block/pressuring technique in the form I've learned.When I say that I wish I was training harder, I guess I mostly mean 'more often.'  There's only one practice each week, and I do train on my own once or twice a week but I'm shooting for at least some training every day.On the other hand, I am trying to train harder too.  I feel like if I really wanted to I could hold a stance just a little longer, reach just a little further on a stretch, do the form just a few more times, and in so doing the training would be that much richer.  It's not the sort of feeling like I'm about to hurt myself with a stretch, because I know what that feels like.  Instead, I feel like I'm giving up too soon because the pain and exhaustion is getting to me.  The self is the most difficult enemy, don't you think?-S</blockquote>