Help! I’ve been practicing the new detail on the move “Snake Pierces the Sky” that Instructor Josh Grable taught us in the April 18 Master Class in Needham (congratulations to Instructor Josh on his new belt, by the way). I’ve broken most of it down into bite-sized pieces, but it still doesn’t feel right. Starting with a stomach circle, I added in a taiji-like steering of the waist and weight shifting from the back foot to the front foot. In other words, the basic body movements of the block are in with the stomach to engage the core, twist to the inside and shift the weight forward. Then, continuing the circle, I used the stomach circle to shift weight back, while adding power to the turning around my rear hip socket like we do with sweeping drills, in order to swing the front leg around and launch a low uppercut. Somehow, the upward movement of the stomach circle and the power from the hip are supposed to make it all feel connected, but my knees are sore from being torqued too much. Thinking about it further, a push off the front foot to start the turn (snake=earth) gets even more power into the twist and punch, but at the expense of knees that hurt more too. Everything I’ve tried either starts with a grinding twist to a back leg that still has some weight on it or ends up with a very un-snakelike jump into the final position. Does anybody have any thoughts about what’s missing?