How I learned the fundamentals of taijiquan

[Chang Style Novice]

I was pretty young - young enough that I can't tell you exactly how young. My brother and I both wanted to play with some toy. I can't remember what it was now, probably a Godzilla or something. Anyway, we both had solid grips on it and were trying to pull it away from the other. I was older and bigger, so he was leaning back into his pull, and then a light bulb went off in my head. I let go of the toy, and he fell backwards, smacking his head on the floor and started crying and let go of the toy. I got the toy (and also big trouble) but I never forgot how to take advantage of an overcommitted opponent.

[yenhoi]

Ah yes.... I learned to stab people about that age too.

:eek:

[ShaolinTiger00]

I can't remember what it was now, probably a Godzilla or something

Was it the Shogun Warriors 3' tall one with the spring loaded fist and the tounge that you could stick out?

One of my favorite toys of all time..

[MasterKiller]

My brother had that Godzilla! The tongue had fire painted on it.

I used to make him fight Dragun (http://www.wildtoys.com/Shogun/ShogJumbo/dragun.html) and Manzinga! (http://www.wildtoys.com/Shogun/ShogJumbo/mazinga.html)

[Chang Style Novice]

This isn't quite the direction I envisioned for this thread...:p

[ShaolinTiger00]

My brother had that Godzilla! The tongue had fire painted on it.

Indeed!


1977 MATTEL 19-1/2" GODZILLA SHOGUN WARRIORS SERIES


http://i16.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/16/1c/42_1.JPG

I use to battle endlessly with my brothers the Great Mazinga shogun warrior

http://i24.ebayimg.com/01/i/02/15/05/14_1_b.JPG




This isn't quite the direction I envisioned for this thread...

Hi. Are you new here?

[IronFist]

Originally posted by ShaolinTiger00
Hi. Are you new here?

lol :D :) :p

[Chang Style Novice]

nyucknucknyuck...

(pokes ST00's eyes, Moe-style)

Wooowooowoowoowoowoowoowoowoo!

[ShaolinTiger00]

*blocks eye poke with curly's patented willow leaf palm down the bridge of the nose*

[SPJ]

Yes. there are several principles manifested.

1. Never oppose. (Bu Din)

Tai Ji is developed on the premise that to insist on using a small force to defeat a bigger one. This way, when you get old or just small in size, you have a strategy to defeat a bigger opponent.

2. Listen and understand Jin (Tin Jin and Dong Jin).

You use a small force to test and feel the direction of your opponent's Jin.

3. Never lose contact. (Bu Dew)

4. You follow. (Shuei)

5. Tai Ji maneuver level 1. The noise is in the east. The strike is in the west. (Shen Dong Ji Xi)

You want be in the left, be in the right first. You want to push, you pull first. Once the opponent is going a certain way by your testing force. You know what. You follow (Shuei).




:)

[SPJ]

Let me try some trolling too.

Apple hits my head. I ate the apple. Mr. Newton discovered the principle of Gravity.

Lightening hits my kite. I see a doctor and buy life insurance against lightening strikes. Mr. Franklin found electricity.

Pulling a toy from a brother. Ask Mom to buy two toys. Venerable CSN found Tai Ji.

:D

[Chang Style Novice]

Returning to what I intended to be the point of this thread:

All this stuff isn't so complicated. In fact, the genius is in its simplicity. Also, although techniques such as following, yielding to force, and so on can work great against those who don't understand them yet or aren't expecting them - like a four year old - it takes real kungfu (hard work) to get them to work against someone savvier.

We now return to your regularly scheduled nostalgiafest toy-robot thread.

Super Infra-man would totally choke out Princess Dragon Mom. ( http://www.badmovies.org/movies/inframan/)

[SPJ]

Absolutely.

And you always have to think 2 steps/moves ahead and train your body to move as 1-2-3. Left-right-left. Backward-forward-backward, etc.

Yin and Yang.

Empty and real. (Shi Si) or empty-empty- REAL.

Thus the name is Tai Ji.

My brother and I were fighting over the Kato Mask (worn by Bruce Lee) in "Green hornet" in the '60.

We both used Shaolin Quan. We did not know any Tai Ji yet at the time.

Cheers.

:cool:

[ShaolinTiger00]

ROM the space Knight was a far superior warrior! (http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/comics/Rom/actionfig/box.shtml)

(I got one for my 7th birthday.)

*edit* I just noted MK's updated post w/ links for shogun warriors! cool!!!

[MasterKiller]

Steve Austin, AKA the 6 Million Dollar Man, would pwn ROM.

[ShaolinTiger00]

that was a badass toy. I spent hours looking thru the eye and checking out his robotic arm w, pullover skin.

While cool, not quite as cool as

The world's greatest stuntman (http://www.feelingretro.com/view_toy.cfm?id=24)

[MasterKiller]

I was going to post that next! :mad:

The 12" Dark Lord of the Sith would still choke out Evel.

[red5angel]

Was it the Shogun Warriors 3' tall one with the spring loaded fist and the tounge that you could stick out?


daaaaayuuummm, I had a huge collection of shogun warriors, the 3 ft kind and the small metal kind. Sadly almost everyone of them but Godzilla went up in the house fire when I was young.

[ShaolinTiger00]

The 12" Dark Lord of the Sith would still choke out Evel.

please... Everyone knows the ultimate grappling god outside of Brazil was Stretch Armstrong

http://www.feelingretro.com/toy_img/stretch.jpg

look he's even wearing vale tudo trunks!

[MasterKiller]

And BattleStar Galactica (http://www.virtualtoychest.com/battlestar/battlestar.html) pwned until they quit selling the ones that actually shot missles.

[ShaolinTiger00]

No match for

Thundarr the Barbarian.

http://www.toymania.com/columns/spotlight/images/toynamithundarrtitle.jpg

[ShaolinTiger00]

and for the coup de grace


Heculoids!

http://www.toynami.com/images/popup_herculoids_b02.jpg

http://www.toynami.com/images/popup_herculoids_b08.jpg

http://www.toynami.com/images/popup_herculoids_b12.jpg

[ShaolinTiger00]

Blue Falcon & Birdman, who had the cooler avian costume?



http://www.toynami.com/images/popup_dynomutt_b04.jpg

http://www.toynami.com/images/popup_birdman_b05.jpg

[MasterKiller]

You cheated. Those are new releases. I have un-M.A.S.K (http://www.albertpenello.com/mask/thunderhawk.jpg)'d you.

[Chang Style Novice]

Also, Hanna Barbara sucks so much ass they should be liposuctionists, not animators.

[ShaolinTiger00]

ok.. retro rule here? '60's shows + '04 toys = ?

you don't want to even start with '80's toys bro. I'll drop a cobra HISS tank on you so fast you'll take your hot wheels "criss cross crash" track and run home to your strawberry shortcake bed sheets.

CSN: do not mock my childhood. those 10 minute cartoons were the best.. yeah looking back we know that thundarr, herculoids, birdman, space ghost etc, were all done by the same few voices.. same music same matte backgrounds, but for their time they were the greatest and that's the beauty of retro..

[FatherDog]

Thundarr ruled.

That is all.

[Chang Style Novice]

Hey, I understand nostalgaic fondness for total cheese****, really I do. I put a link to Inframan upthread, remember?

But HB cartoons are VERY low quality. Bad writing, bad animation, bad voice acting. That's what makes them such perfect fodder for reimaginings like "Space Ghost Coast To Coast" "The Brak Show" "Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law" and "Sealab 2021." There's no point to doing that kind of thing to the Chuck Jones, Friz Freleng, Tex Avery, Dave Fleischer stuff ans os no one has. You'd lose more than you'd gain. With HB, there's really nothing to lose.

[red5angel]

Wheeled Warrios! (http://pages.ivillage.com/rootarchive/characters.html)


Wheeled Warriors rocked!!!!


I thought Thundarr was the 80's?!