Which Style Tai Chi Chaun
I am studying the Yang Lu Chan basic form of Tai jiquan, from Erles book, he also has a book called Reflex Violence, that teaches instinct fighting and such. People say the Cheng Fu version has taken out alot of the Fa-Jing out of the form, and this is what most people know the derviations of the Yang Cheng Fu, intending for healing. but the Yang Lu Chan form which was made by Cheng Fus grandfather Lu Chan, is about dimmak and has all types of fajing. espeacially in its advance levels.
Which style do you do and which you like better.
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13 postures form I was but..
I was think about doing a 13 posture form. only it also had the five fist of hsing-i, but I think you should just teach the 13 postures first and still teach the full form, because there is so much to tai chi chuan, and we have enough watered down forms as it is.
Anyone whats to see the form???
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Call me a hypocrite . . .
Well,
As a student of psychology, I know that what people like is what they are exposed to most often. Therefore, the question of what style you like is irrelevant, since it is simply a manifestation of exposure with the resulting beliefs and attitudes that are generated as a result. As far as one style being better than another (eg Erle's Lu Chan) this is also irrelevant since the individual practitioner makes the difference and not the art he or she learns. For instance, I know of people who do "deadly styles" that include outright combative sequences with violent movements, etc, and yet the best martial artists I have met perform the Yang Cheng Fu style forms slowly. In addition to this, it is my opinion that training with other people is exponentially more important that individual training (exercise) and that the methods chosen for individual training have little bearing on actual combative abilities gained due to the fact that there are no outside stimuli influencing the practitioner to develop useful motor and perceptual skills.
As far as Erle Montaigue is concerned, he is a likely a very dangerous man from the accounts I have seen of him. However, everything I have come in contact with that has been written by him seems extremely dogmatic in its argument structure in that he sees martial arts in very narrow "natural selection" like terms. He also seems (to me) to manifest the attitude that Taiji is a secretive, esoteric killing art and that the older, the purer and more deadly the style.
But whatever,