Techniques that you have never used
Let's leave health, performance, self-cultivation, and inner peace out of this discussion.
Does the following bother you?
- Your XingYi teacher asked you to do Pi Chuan everyday.
- You have spent all your life working on Pi Chuan.
- Oneday you get old and look back.
- You realize that you have never used your Pi Chuan in any sparring or street fight.
- You start to wonder if you have spent the same amount training time in you jab, cross, uppercut, hook combo all those years, will you be more happy about yourself in your old age?
Oneday when you become a teacher. Will you teach your students how to do "Pi Chuan", or will you teach your students how to do "jab, cross, uppercut, hook"?
The "jab, cross, uppercut, hook" may not be in your system. But how hard will it be for you to put it into your system (or just put into your own body and forget about your system)?
Have you ever look back and count how many teachniques that you have trained but never being used?
I've used pi quan in sparring. It's great when your just playing hands.
I haven't really used a full deep horse stance in any sparring or street fight. But I've used it a lot when taking a dump. Does that count? I've taken far more dumps than I've spent time sparring or in street fights.
I've never done any flying kicks outside of forms
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Originally Posted by
MightyB
I think if you dump in the street, or on your boss's desk, that's more of a political statement.
Taking a dump on the street is an act of necessity.
Taking a dump of my boss's desk is an act of resignation.
Doing the Harlem Shake in the street is a political statement.
:D