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  • #31
    Very illuminating! Thank you very much Sigung.

    Best wishes,
    Stephen

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    • #32
      (Continued from Part 2)

      There is an on-going theory about heart-to-heart transmission, called, interestingly, the theory of 100 monkeys. Some monkeys discovered by accident that if they washed away the sand that stuck to some bananas, the bananas would taste better. Seeing this, other monkeys followed and found their bananas taste better. If more that 100 monkeys did this, monkeys elsewhere which had no visual connection with the events of washing bananas, would have acquired this knowledge, and they too would wash their bananas off sand before eating them.

      Scientists do not know why this happens. They also do not call it heart-to-heart transmission. But with the advantage of our teaching, we know this has something to do with our mind. And our human mind is certainly more powerful than monkey’s mind. Hence, it is very important that we must always have good thoughts.

      Having good thoughts is an excellent way to nourish energy for spiritual growth. We can generate a lot of energy using Sinew Metamorphosis. Or, as we understand that depending on our purporse, “a lot” may not necessarily means “better”, we may use a less powerful exercise to generate less energy, but still more than enough energy for our purpose.

      Then, by having good thoughts we nourish our energy for spiritual growth. It is actually very simple, but the effects are profound. Good thoughts will nourish energy for spiritual growth; evil thoughts will weaken energy resulting in harmful effects. “Good” is whatever that brings benefit; “evil” is whatever that brings harm.

      For example, you wake up in the morning. First you practice a simple exercise like Lifting the Sky for about 10 minutes to generate some energy. You have good thoughts, thinking that the energy will make you lively. Then you have your breakfast. Irrespective of what you breakfast is, you are more likely to enjoy it than if you had evil thoughts.

      Next, you go to work. You have good thoughts. Irrespective of what your work is, you feel grateful that you have a job. You intend to do your job well. You look forward to your work. It is more likely that you will enjoy your work than if you had evil thoughts.

      For comparison, suppose you had evil thoughts. As you wake up, you think what a burden that day is going to be for you. You practice your chi kung, and intellectualize whether you are doing it correctly. When you have your breakfast, because of your evil thoughts, it is likely you will not enjoy it than if you had good thoughts.

      As you go to work, you harbor evil thoughts. You feel that you should be going for vacation instead of going to work. You feel angry at your work. You feel indifferent to it, and do not care whether you are going to do your work well. Because of your evil thoughts, even though your breakfast and your work are the same, the effects on you will be harmful spiritually, like making you depressed or angry.

      Does having good thoughts change present events? For example, you are presently a computer technician. Does having good thoughts change you into a computer tycoon? No, having good thoughts will not change present events, though it may affect future events. But certainly it affects your present spiritual condition.

      Irrespective of whether you are a computer technician or a computer tycoon, having good thoughts will nourish your present spiritual growth, like being peaceful and happy, and having bad thoughts will contribute to your spiritual decay, like being depressed and angry. If you practice Sinew Metamorphosis, which produces a lot of energy, it is more important that you have good thoughts.
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      • #33
        An excellent question!

        Sifu Andrew Barnett asked an excellent question. I have split the answer in to two parts, as not to blow your mind too quickly!

        Question 4

        There are 12 Sinew Metamorphosis exercises. Could Sifu please explain the specific benefits of each of them?

        Sifu Andrew Barnett


        Answer

        The 12 Sinew Metamorphosis exercises are as follows:

        1. Flicking Fingers, or Golden Dragons Taps on Ground.
        2. Flexing Fingers, or Sacred Tree Grows Branches
        3. Grasping Thumb, or Hiding Gold in Fist
        4. Grasping Fist, or Lohan Ties Belt
        5. Stretching Up, or Lohan Reaching for the Sky
        6. Pulling Body, or Lohan Emerges from Water
        7. Jerking Elbows, or Immortal Plays with Bamboo
        8. Rotating Elbows, or Immortal Rubs Eyes
        9. Stretching Arms, or Lohan Carries Mountain
        10. Holding Arms, Lohan Holding Bamboo
        11. Stretching Palms, or Lohan Presents Blessings
        12. Lohan Carries Sun and Moon

        Unlike the Eighteen Lohan Hands where the names of the patterns are poetic, like Lifting the Sky and Shooting Arrows, the names of the Sinew Metamorphosis patterns recorded in classics were prosaic, like Flicking Fingers and Flexing Fingers. In response to my request, Piti supplied poetic names to the Sinew Metamorphosis exercises.

        As in all other internal art exercises, the benefits can be holistic and thematic. Holistically, the 12 Sinew Metamorphosis exercises produce tremendous internal force and mental clarity, which were essential for monks at the Shaolin Temple to break through their imaginary body to merge with the Cosmos, attaining Enlightenment.

        You were perceptive to refer to a Sinew Metamorphosis course as a “Wow!’ course. There were only two results after a Sinew Metamorphosis training session. Participants either exclaimed “Wow!”, or commented that they felt nothing. From the experience of my Sinew Metamorphosis courses, more than 70% of the participants exclaimed “Wow!”
        But, just so you know the next part is the answer to:

        The main thematic or specific benefit of each of the 12 Sinew Metamorphosis exercises is as follows.
        Here are the first 6:

        1. Flicking Fingers. Activate all the 12 primary meridians of the body, and consequently all the meridians.

        2. Flexing Fingers. Activate meridians of the arms.

        3. Grasping Thumb. Open the lungs, which are the primary internal organs to regulate energy flow.

        4. Grasping Fist. Produce powerful arms and fists.

        5. Stretching Up. Activate energy flow of the side meridians, which act like framework for the whole body.

        6. Pulling Body. Strengthen the chest and lungs, which are responsible for energy flow.
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        • #34
          ...... trying to be patient

          2 of my 4 favourites already there .. and now I know why they are my favourites!
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          • #35
            Sorry for the suspense! I have been busy preparing for my daughters 8th birthday party. Can’t believe how quickly the years go by...

            Here’s the next part of the answers:

            7. Jerking Elbows. Activate energy flow along the three hand yang meridians.

            8. Rotating Elbows. Activate energy flow along the six hand meridians.

            9. Stretching Arms. Strengthen the fingers.

            10. Holding Arms. Strengthen the arms.

            11. Stretching Palms. Strengthen the yang sides, or outside, of the arms.

            12. Holding Sun and Moon. Activating the leg meridians.

            It is worthy of note that the strengthening involves not just the physical body, but also energy and spirit, or in Chinese it is triple cultivation of jing, qi and shen. Those without experience of internal force training may not find the explanation meaningful. They may have a better idea to know that after a Sinew Metamorphosis training session, practitioners are not only stronger physically, but also emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
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            • #36
              Interesting to see how my 4 favourites fit together so nicely ... and that's just considering the specific benefits. Add the holistic ones and yes, you guessed it ..... WOW!
              Sifu Andrew Barnett
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              • #37
                How the stages of cleansing, building and nourishing differ

                Thanks for your question Jack, as usual the answer sheds some interesting light onto how the arts work -

                When practicing Sinew Metamorphosis, how does the process of cleansing, nourishing and building differ in comparison, when induced with such exercises as Dantien Breathing, Golden Bridge or 18 Lohan Art

                In a past Q&A on the 18 lohan Art I believe you mentioned that the martial arts benefits of these exercises cculd be classified into three sections, namely internal force, fa jing and balance and agility. Can the benefits derived from the set of Sinew Metamorphosis exercises be classified in a similar manner in terms of martial benefits? if so could you perhaps elaborate? Also what might the classifications and developmental benefits be, in terms of enhancing health, vitality, longevity and spiritual cultivation?

                Also as we have the outstanding chance to practice numerous once in a lifetime energy arts in Wahnam, would Sifu kindly expound on how practicing Sinew Metamorphosis contributes to the development of, and building the foundation for arts such as Bone Marrow Cleansing and the Small/Big Universal orbit?

                Can Sifu share with us how cleansing nourishing and building refine in Sinew Metamorphosis the five levels that chi can be directed to when practicing Bone Marrow Cleansing?

                Jack



                Question 5
                Answer

                Irrespective of what chi kung exercise is used, the resultant cleansing, building and nourishing are the same processes. The difference in the process is not due to the different chi kung exercise used to induce the processes but due to the different amount of force generated by the exercise chosen.

                As an analogy, the processes of paying off debt, saving in a bank and improving the quality of economic life are the same irrespective of the jobs you do. Any differences in these processes are not due to the difference of jobs but due to the amount of cash flow generated by the jobs.

                The better the cash flow, the easier you can pay off debts, save in a bank and improve the quality of your economic life. Similarly the more powerful is the force generated, the easier you can cleanse, build or nourish.

                Generally, if you work as a doctor, your cash flow is more that that of a clerk. Hence working as a doctor will enable you to pay off debts, save money in a bank, and improve your economic life more easily than if you work as a clerk. But, of for some reasons, you get less cash flow working as a doctor than as a clerk, you will pay off debts, save money in a bank, and improve your economic life more easily working as a clerk.

                Similarly, a Sinew Metamorphosis exercise like Flicking Fingers generates more internal force than an exercise like Lifting the Sky from the 18 Lohan Hands. Hence, you will be able to cleanse, build and nourish better performing Flicking Fingers than performing Lifting the Sky. But, if for any reason you can generate more internal force performing Lifting the Sky, than this will enable you to cleanse, build and nourish better.

                It is worthy of note that even when one can produce more internal force performing Sinew Metamorphosis, thus is able to cleanse, build and nourish more effectively, it does not necessarily means that this is more beneficial than performing a less powerful exercise.

                There may be occasions when a less powerful exercise is more beneficial. For example, if a practitioner is sick, performing Sinew Metamorphosis even correctly may generate too much internal force, and therefore become harmful. Or, if he is healthy, it is more likely that he over-trains performing Sinew Metamorphosis, even correctly, than performing a less powerful exercise like Lifting the Sky. In these two cases, performing Lifting the Sky will give him more benefits.

                For convenience, exercises from the 18-Lohan Art may be classified into three categories. The first 6 exercises of the 18-Lohan Art focus on developing internal force. The next 6 focus on exploding internal force. And the last 6 focus on enhancing balance and agility.

                This classification is for convenient. It does not mean, for example, that the second set of 6 exercises of the 18-Lohan Art do not develop internal force or enhance balance and agility. But it means that if all other things were equal, which is almost never true in real life, exercises from the first set will develop internal force more effectively than those of the second set, whereas exercises from the second set will explode force more effectively than those of the first set.

                However, the 12 exercises from Sinew Metamorphosis are not classified in this way. In other words, if we divide the 12 exercises from Sinew Metamorphosis into 3 groups, none of the groups is more effective than another in developing internal force, exploding force, and enhancing balance and agility even when all other things were equal.

                (Part 2 follows)
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                • #38
                  Endless wows

                  Dear Sifu,

                  As ever i find your answers to be tremendously enlightening to say the least, I look forward to further installments eagerly.

                  With gratitude and best wishes,
                  Jack.
                  ".....Irrespective of race culture and religion." Sifu.

                  Love to All.

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                  • #39
                    Sorry for the delay in the second part of question 5.

                    (Continued from Part 1)

                    Holistically, all the Sinew Metamorphosis exercises develop tremendous internal force, though some may be more forceful than others if all other things were equal. Thematically, because of the ways they are performed, certain exercises may focus internal force at certain meridians.

                    Internal force is very beneficial for both martial purposes and for enhancing health, vitality, longevity and spiritual cultivation. A more detailed answer of their thematic benefits is given in Question-Answer 4.

                    Holistically, all chi kung exercises, ranging from elementary ones like 18 Jewels and 18 Lohan Hands to advanced ones like Sinew Metamorphosis, Bone Marrow Cleansing, and Small and Big Universe, cleanse, build and nourish energy, resulting in combat efficiency, good health, vitality, longevity, mental clarity and spiritual joys.

                    Thematically, the amount of cleansing, building and nourishing as well as resultant specific benefits are different. For example, the 18 Jewels focus on cleaning, and are therefore excellent for overcoming pain and illness. The 18 Lohan Hands focus on building, and are therefore effective for promoting good health, vitality and longevity. Sinew Metamorphosis focus on nourishing, and therefore is suitable for attaining the highest spiritual cultivation.

                    As Sinew Metamorphosis produces tremendous internal force, it contributes greatly to the development of and build the foundation for advanced arts like Bone Marrow Cleansing, and Small and Big Universe. One who has practiced Sinew Metamorphosis before will attain both faster and better results in these advanced arts.

                    For example a person who has practiced Sinew Metamorphosis before will have energy flowing at his meridian level in a shorter time, and have a more powerful Small Universal flow than those who have no prior Sinew Metamorphosis experience.

                    Sinew Metamorphosis will also contribute to and build foundation for less advanced arts like 18 Jewels and 18 Lohan Hands provided practitioners of these less advanced arts are able to absorb the tremendous amount of internal force produced by Sinew Metamorphosis. Most such practitioners are unable to absorb the internal force, and are also unable to appreciate the need to train Sinew Metamorphosis at a very low level. They over-train, with the result of over-cleansing, over-building or over-nourishing, which is uncomfortable and often harmful.

                    Before a practitioner can direct his chi to any of the five levels in Bone Marrow Cleansing, he must first of all have the chi to do so. Suppose he needs three months to refine his chi in cleansing, building and nourishing, and another two months to let his chi flow harmoniously so that eventually it flows at his skin level. So he needs five months to accomplish his task.

                    But if he has already refined his chi in cleaning, building and nourishing in his Sinew Metamorphosis practice, he does not need the initial three months. After two months of Bone Marrow Cleansing practice, his chi will flow at his skin level. So he needs a shorter time to accomplish his task, taking only two months instead of five.

                    Sinew Metamorphosis produces more internal force than Bone Marrow Cleansing. So as soon as he starts practicing Bone Marrow Cleansing, this practitioner who has practiced Sinew Metamorphosis has a more powerful chi flow other Bone Marrow Cleansing practitioners even after they have practiced for three months. Thus, in two months this practitioner will have better result in Bone Marrow Cleansing than others who need five months.

                    These examples apply to students in other schools who have the opportunity to practice genuine Bone Marrow Cleansing and Sinew Metamorphosis. But most students do not have this opportunity. They only practice the outward form of Bone Marrow Cleansing and Sinew Metamorphosis without the necessary skills. Hence, regardless of how long they may have practiced, they will still not attain the desired results.

                    Our students are unbelievably fortunate. They don’t need two months or five months. They need only a few hours if they attend my regional Bone Marrow Cleansing course or Sinew Metamorphosis course, because I transmit the skills to them.

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                    • #40
                      Thank you Andy for your following question:

                      Question 6

                      1. I have learned Sinew Metamorphosis before, but for whatever reason it 'did not work'. This is in contrast to other advanced practices I learned at the time such as Cosmic Breathing or Cosmic Shower, which had noticeable "Wow!" effects. What advice can you give to people for whom there is no noticeable effect when they first learn Sinew Metamorphosis?



                      2. After several years of regular training I tried once again Sinew Metamorphosis after a refresher from your books. It initiates a gentle chi flow, but again I seem to get different results from other students. Is this an intellectual blockage, a meridian blockage, or both?! As my regular training is very good and very beneficial, I don't hold on to this detail, but I thought I would raise the topic here as it is relevant.



                      3. Sinew Metamorphosis seems very esoteric to the uninitiated. If introducing the concept to the general public (non-student), what is a good and concise way of describing the practice and the effects?

                      Sifu Andy Cusick



                      Answer

                      The advice I give to students so that they can get good result in performing Sinew Metamorphosis, as in any other exercise, is to follow my instructions as best as they comfortably can.

                      From my many years of teaching experience, if students do just that, i.e. following my instructions as best as they comfortably can, they will get good result. They will get good result not because my instructions are time-tested to be effective, but also they will enter into a state of mind where they will receive my heart-to-heart transmission.

                      Two of my most important instructions, which may surprise many students of other schools who are usually concerned with performing the exercise precisely in picture-perfect form, are to be relaxed and to not think of anything! If students are tensed or if they intellectualise, they will not be in a state of mind to receive my transmission, and hence miss the essential skill to derive wonderful benefits from the exercise.

                      This advice applies to our students in general performing Sinew Metamorphosis, but may or may not apply to you. This is because as you can be relaxed and not think of anything when performing other exercises where you derive wonderful benefits, you can also have this skill when performing Sinew Metamorphosis. You should, but you don’t.

                      A possible reason is that you perform Sinew Metamorphosis at a physical level instead of at a mind level. Let us take Flicking Fingers as an example. You flick your fingers physically instead of being in a deep state of mind whereby you let the actual minute physical action of clicking your fingers generate a powerful flow of energy.

                      When you preform Sinew Metamorphosis from my books, you may follow my exact instructions in my books but you miss the heart-to-heart transmission from me in person. It is this heart-to-heart transmission that enables students in my Sinew Metamorphosis class to have “wow” effects.

                      By following the right instructions of Sinew Metamorphosis a small percentage of students in other schools who practice Sinew Metamorphosis may eventually develop the skills to have wonderful results. But they will take a much longer time, in matters of months or years. Most other students will miss the skills even though their techniques are correct regardless of how long they may have practiced.

                      It is just ridiculous that our students will have wonderful results in just a few minutes! This statement may sound boastful, and many other people may be offended. That is their business, not ours. I am just stating the truth, which many of our students who have taken my Sinew Metamorphosis course can verify, and many of our students who will take my Sinew Metamorphosis course at the coming UK Summer Camp will verify.

                      (Part 2 follows)
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                      • #41
                        Dear Paul,

                        Your question has been answered in two parts, so I’ll post the 2nd part later on for you. It is an important question, so thank you for asking. It is also quite common for people to get stuck at various junctions of their practice, wondering whether it is working or not, or if they are doing it right or not. Or if they have missed the point. This can lead to unnecessary tension, confusion or unnecessary thinking.

                        What Sifu is about to tell you, in part 1 and 2, is worth reading a few times. Hopefully you will experience that ‘ah ha’ moment where wisdom is woking up inside you.

                        All the best

                        Question 7

                        My question would have been asked many times already, probably on the forum, and definitely on courses I have been on. To be honest I have had it answered by Sifu and by instructors, and in person but I still never got it. I was, and am not, concerned because there are so many other exercises that I do 'get'! But I thought, for posterity, it would be good to address as one of the 10 questions. I also realise it will not really be possible to fully answer it with words probably, so maybe Sifu can give us some general advice to bear in mind before we practise the exercise on a course.



                        The question is: How do we "flick" the fingers, meaning do we "flick" them purely in our mind, and the fingers don't physically move, or is there an actual physical flicking movement?

I have been in courses where I didn't know which it was, then in the cafe / restaurant afterwards asked other students, found that say 5 or 6 of them were certain they knew which it was, only to find that 3 thought it was done purely mentally, and 3 thought it was done physically!

                        Paul (Drunken Boxer)


                        Answer

                        If a practitioner in our school performs Sinew Metamorphosis correctly, he can generate more internal force and mental clarity by in 10 minutes than most other students in 10 months! To many family members in our school, flicking Fingers, which is the first of the 12 Sinew Metamorphosis exercises, is the most representative of Sinew Metamorphosis.

                        Hence, if you just flick your fingers 6 times while performing Sinew Metamorphosis, and the whole exercise would take you about 10 minutes including entering into Zen and enjoying a very gentle chi flow, you would produce more internal force and mental clarity than many other practitioners outside our school performing Sinew Metamorphosis for about an hour everyday for 10 minths.

                        Most people outside our school may think we are boastful but I am just stating the truth. If a typical student attending a regional Sinew Metamorphosis course like one in the coming UK Summer Camp can produce more internal force and mental clarity in 10 minutes than what I did in my student’s days for 10 months, it is not unreasonable to estimate that most other practitioners would attain a result similar or inferior to mine in my student’s days because I was considered by other chi kung and kungfu masters as an exemplary student who produced better and faster results than most other practitioners.

                        Why do our students take only 10 minutes to produce more internal force and mental clarity in practicing Sinew Metamorphosis, like flicking fingers, in 10 minutes that what most other practitioners take and I myself took 10 months? There are a few reasons, but the most important and crucial reason is that I transmit the necessary skills to them within 10 minutes of their practice, instead of they having to take 10 or more months to develop the skills themselves.

                        An analogy would make this clearer. Most people would not earn a million euros in 10 months. Suppose one did, and he became a millionaire in 10 months. But you had a god-father who gave you a million euros in 10 minutes. So you became a millionaire in 10 minutes whereas he, a very fortunate person indeed, became a millionaire in 10 months.

                        (Part 2 follows)
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                        • #42
                          Dear Tim Siheng (long time!) thank you, on the edge of my seat to see what's in part 2! Part 1 I understand in relation to other elements of practice, interested to see in part 2 how it relates to my question.

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                          • #43
                            Dear Sihing,

                            Thanks for posting these awesome q&a series about Sinew Metamorphosis! I did notice that Andy's question (question 6) still had a part 2 which hasn't been posted yet? I would also love to read about that.

                            Many thanks to Sifu for sharing his wisdom. And thanks to those asking questions of course!

                            Best wishes,

                            Roeland
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                            • #44
                              Sifu said
                              Sinew Metamorphosis Question-Answer 7 -- Part 2
                              (Continued from Part 1)

                              Skills are usually more important than techniques in getting result. You may know the techniques of Boxing very well but unless you have the skills, you are not going to become a good Boxer. This fact is actually glaring everywhere, but most people may not realize it. Many practitioners, for example, have practiced kungfu or chi kung for years and their kungfu and chi kung techniques are correct, but they sill cannot have good results in kungfu and chi kung, like applying their kungfu techniques for combat or enjoying good health, vitality and longevity, because they don’t have the necessary skills.

                              If you understand this underlying philosophy, you may realise that your question whether you should flick your fingers physically or mentally is irrelevant. Let me give you another analogy. Suppose your television station is broadcasting dances on Channel 3, and a drama on Channel 7. It doesn’t matter whether you use 3 fingers or 5 fingers, or for fun, you use your mouth to turn to the respective channel. If you turn to Channel 3, you get dances, if you turn to Channel 5 you get a drama. If you turn to other channels you won’t get the transmission from the television station.

                              It is the same with Flicking Fingers. If you flick your fingers, regardless of whether physically or mentally, you get my transmission. If you do something else, like shaking your head, stomping your feet, or wondering whether you should flick your fingers physically or mentally, you won’t get my transmission.

                              You would probably know that the most important requirement is not flicking your fingers but entering into Zen or a chi kung state of mind. If you are not in a chi kung state of mind, irrespective of whether you flick your fingers physically or mentally you will not get my transmission and therefore miss the wonderful results of this exercise.

                              Nevertheless, for fun, I shall still answer answer your question intellectually. You can flick your fingers either physically or mentally, neither physically nor mentally, or both physically and mentally. How well you will receive my transmission and subsequently how much internal force and mental clarity you will get from the exercise depends not on how well you flick your fingers physically or mentally, or both, or none at all, but depend on how well you follow my instructions as best as you comfortably can.

                              If you recall carefully, you may remember that except for clarification I have never asked students in a Finger Flicking exercise to flick their fingers physically or mentally. But I ask students to stand upright and be relaxed, and not to think of anything. I ask them to life their finger as much as they can at a right angle to their arms. When they are ready, I ask them to flick their fingers gently, but without any reference to flicking physically, emotionally, mentally or spiritually.

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                              • #45
                                Another wonderful piece of wisdom! Thanks for sharing!
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