Short Length

打拳要长，发劲要短

Long when practising boxing, short when sending out power

This issue has been extensively described in this blog in Training vs Fighting

Heaven and Earth

頭頂青天，脚抓地；懷抱嬰兒，手托腮

The head carries the blue sky, the feet grip the earth; hugging a child, resting the chin in the hands*

Stretching the fascia lines from top to bottom.

Hitting a Wall

打人千萬，不如一紥

Countless hits cannot compare to one prick

Sharp beats blunt.

The Way you Move

先看一步走，后看一出手

First watching the steps, then looking at the hand movements

With 26 bones, 33 joints and more than a hundred muscles, tendons and ligaments, the foot is a complex machine often overlooked in training. 

A Gentle Hare

行礼文靜如處女，開拳一動如脫兔

As gentle and quiet as a virgin when one salutes, like a fleeing hare when opening the fists* as soon as one moves.

One shall never be seen as a threat outside fighting.

Back to Square One

内外合一，形神兼备

Internal and external combine into one, having both shape and spirit

The body is the container, the spirit the content.

Heavy and Penetrating

錘槊之勇不可敌

One cannot match the fierceness of the mace and the long spear

Training heavy, fighting light; training long, fighting short.

One for Essence

不怕千招會，就怕一招精

Do not fear the thousand moves skilful, fear the perfect one 

Old practices are about changes, not multiplicity.

From Head to Toe

练功先练桩，大鼎增力量

One shall first train pillars when training skills, upside-down adds strength

Training pillars to first fix one's posture.

Roots

打拳不遛腿，必是冒失鬼

Training boxing without strolling with the legs, certainly a reckless person.

Or

Training boxing without stopping on the legs, certainly a reckless person.

Legs and up to the waist are the roots, the essential part of training.

Three Methods, One Art

拳講三術，技，醫，藝術

Boxing emphasise on three methods: skills, medicine and art.

Skills for fighting.

Greenish Black And Blackish Green

劍走青，刀走黑

The sword goes green, the sabre black.

Green because of the homophony with the character for light.