Chin to toe

[windwalker099]

For some teachers, there are specific requirements one must meet before they agree to teach.
The chin-to-toe touch was one such requirement.

After completing "Chin to Toe" in 100 days Kuo was taught the Guang Ping Yang tai chi by the 100-year-old master Wang Jiao-yu.

Highlights the Science Behind It
Might offer some perspective on why a teacher might use this as a requirement before teaching.

 

[Same Trick]

Stretching is good, however there’s more to the chin to toe(head to foot) concept quite important in the internal martial arts practice, it’s hidden in plain sight sort of in that pic of Kou Lienying in a Zhan Zhuang pose. Wang Xiangzhai talks about it in some of his writings and relate it with Chinese opera players performance..

About wang jiaoyu there’s not known much about, I recall reading that at an old age in Beijing he asked for some interaction with Chen Fake and his teaching, CFK asked Wang Jiaowu for a demonstration whereupon CFK told the old man off.
About Kou Lienying i recall reading he once challenge Joe Louis to a fight that never happened