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I have noticed in push hands that if I think about stuff like conciously trying to do it, it feels weak, but if I am just feeling and reacting and acting I can shoot people for flips without any...

I used to do it years ago if you are referring to Tai Chi Ruler? It is a turned piece of wood with rounded larger ends about 2" in diameter and the middle part is about 1" in diameter I think mine...

I got a black belt in some style of hapkido back in 85 and its pretty cool, I got it in north carolina, from some dude teaching downtown, I dont know what the lineage is or whatever, it may not even...

Ray can fight from the vids I have seen, he isnt the best fighter I ever saw, but he doesnt claim to be either. But he is certainly no pushover. At least he is training realistically which is more...

going in on a shoot is a good technique especially if as you say you keep the knees moving forward, like two cars hitting together, and the other guy forgot his seatbelt...

Cool I will look into it. I want to try the San Shou event but my wife thinks its too brutal, I think it would help my study to cross hands with some cats that hit for real all the time, but she is...

Well I am actually not learning BaJi per se, my sifu is a mantis Shifu, and taiji Sifu but he knows one Baji form and taught it to me, and one short BaGua form, and he makes me walk circle all the...

Applegate and Fairbairn, exactly, I learned knife fighting from an army airborn guy, the principles havent changed in many years.

Seriously, if you have a fair amount of knife fighting training, military etc. it would be VERY hard for anyone to take you out empty handed. My suggestion is to find a kali or some such knife and...

Do the revenuers know what your up to? :eek:

Sounds great, I love Starbucks! :) I think I will probably be in "other" Tai Chi forms catergory, Hao style, and both push hands, thats probably it, might do some sparring but I doubt it.
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I think I am coming up for the tournament in october, I may compete in a couple of things, everyone here at Jing Wu has a seriously high opinion of Tony Yang.:)

I like to play the Phrygian mode in F# better ;)

Good advice, I notice you publish book on BaJi, I have just begun study of this particular art and am quite impressed with it. Is it not a rare style in the west?

There is SOME good discussions on these forums, but it seems the majority is peeing matches about who's lineage is better, who has the real Kung Fu, who has taiji, who doesnt, forms are crap, on and...

does anyone know how much a 1/4 page ad for a tournament costs in KungFu and TaiChi?

sounds like good advice, problems probably mostly from being tired, these BaJi forms have been kicking my butt.:eek:

I had so many problems generating any force today, anybody else have that problem occasionally?

St00 sorry to misjudge you but you know how this TMA MMA thing can get. btw I thought you looked better the second time I watched it. Sometimes the ground game is very subtle. A good joint lock is...

If I played the lotto I would indeed try em out...couldnt hurt...lol.

where did you find an internal school with no forms? I would have loved to have found one of those back in the day...did I mention I used to hate forms...I now admit you need them for somethings but...

dont get me wrong...I think drilling basics and sparring are much better ways of learning to fight than forms, but they have their place. I used to HATE forms, now I kind of like them, kind of, it...

Looks like you are both right...

You are lucky to have not grown up where I did then, fights basically went like this, the dude would roll up on you with his buddies, if you hooked it up and it went to the ground, and it looked like...

As soon as someone mentions form these days, even if they mention sparring etc. in the same breath, all that is heard is FORM and nothing else, like they dont even read the post, but just assume that...