are all hairs to be split?
Braden,
Slowness is useful in itself. The internal training of slow taiji is easier to examine realtime than the faster internals of kung fu.
The powers of Kung Fu never fail!
-- Hong Kong Phooey
If you do not understand...
If you do not understand my previous post, you are practicing tai chi with slowed-down waijia mechanics--"shaolin taichi."
I use the terms neijia and waijia because they have very specific meanings. The common statement, "all arts start differently and end the same" is bs. If you practice neijia (xingyi, bagua, taichi,etc.) you are developing neijin. If you practice waijia, you are developing the jin specific to those arts. Hard and soft is not synonymous with internal/external (ie. Xingyi is neither slow or soft).
Are some arts both? Maybe. Piguazhang and bajiquan come to mind. Possibly Bai He (white crane sp?).
Bottom Line: Practicing neijia in an "external" manner is not going to develop neijin. The "Internal" arts are for power development, not qigong. Practice your style's qigong--don't practice *******ized taichi.
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