Maybe there's some different ideas about what "traditional" entails. I thought it meant getting knocked around every week one-on-one with your teacher in his living room or backyard. In street...
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Maybe there's some different ideas about what "traditional" entails. I thought it meant getting knocked around every week one-on-one with your teacher in his living room or backyard. In street...
Part of the problem in these discussions is that there's more than one understanding in the TCMA about what form work entails and what it's for, so it can be difficult to generalize. There's a lot...
Aha... I thought you meant you were looking to host a seminar on some topic yourself. You're right that there's not much point in doing a seminar on exercises you don't normally do and aren't going...
I think it's taking entirely the wrong approach to the problem. The question shouldn't be whether or not the moves in your form have applications, but rather whether doing forms is how you should be...
You could do a seminar on zhan zhuang, silk reeling, pole shaking, or some other exercise other than the form.
Most commentators I have read not only hold Sun Lutang to be sympathetic to this categorization of the chinese martial arts, but moreover associate him with its origin, or at least the popularization...
Although it doesn't change your point, it does address a typical confusion about the issue at hand: boxing is not waijia. Waijia and neijia are classifications internal to chinese martial culture. ...
:confused: What does this have to do with neijin?
Sun Lutang had little to no understanding of pugilistic anatomy in terms of Chinese worldview?
Similarly, should we say that dusting...
I believe he had a few teachers. You could be referring to Koichi Tohei, who founded the Ki Society and would be 87 now. My understanding is that he is *extremely* highly thought of in aikido...
I know! I was quite surprised too! (But I didn't want to say anything; you know, for appearance's sake.)
Oh, I know this one! They're different martial arts!
More accurately, one is a japanese martial art, and one is a category of techniques in the chinese martial arts.
It seems like you haven't trained in these styles that you are talking about, but you have some idea about what your "favorites" are based on what you're read about them on the internet or somewhere...
When you first raised this point, what you said was that while there were crossing steps in circlewalking, there weren't any in the shuai video. That was your criticism of the former. Now, here's...
You seem to be confusing passing steps for crossing the feet. Walking includes the former but not the latter.
You don't have the experience to be able to reasonably judge what these very...
No, walking is when you move your feet forward.
They don't.
You're mistaken: crossing your legs is a technical error in circlewalking. Also, it seems a bit peculiar to call circlewalking a form, since it's only two steps.
No YOU live in a fantasy world or YOU or a paid government shill...
On reflection, this sort of antagonistic conversation tactic doesn't seem very productive. Maybe we should limit ourselves to...
What gives you the impression that the US is partnered with opium warlords? To the contrary, perhaps the most significant contribution to the American inability to control or influence Afghanistan...
That's not the impression I got from his remark. Maybe he can clarify. Hey doug: Is knifefighter right, are you saying that the purpose of circlewalking in bagua is to train people to walk in a...
I don't know what that guy's training background is. I know that I've never met a legitimate bagua instructor that tells their students to try to walk around people like that. (Although it's an...
That's true. But you do need to know something about bagua to know if it's bagua that's being represented. For example, Knifefighter has commented that "circle walking bullsh!t doesn't work." But...
Practicing martial arts makes you healthy, brings you together with new friends, gives you enjoyment, reconnects you with your body and the physical world (very important for office workers,...
Researching and practicing methods from other periods and/or cultures doesn't make you an "anachronist." In every field of human activity, there is a necessary tension between the past, which...
Right. If you look back at the history of the traditional chinese arts, the theme of adaptation is ubiquitous. Even in recent history we have, for example, yiquan incorporating principles from...