so I take it you do bagua, xing yi, and taiji?
No, my friend I know Yin style bagua doesn't have any high kichs and Yang style taiji eather from what I've seen, because I do yin style and my master said we don't kick above the waist and since he is the linage holder for yin style I think he knows better that you. and I have seen my friends form who does yang style taiji and he doesn't even have kicks employed he just lifts his leg to note that a kick could be used in that movement. Maybe it is that he has not learned this yet or that he is working on so other aspest I'm not sure.
"Yes they do."
Sorry you are wrong in that not all of them do. Some of the styles (if you do taiji you know more about that than I) might use them a bit but they don't rely on them the way nothern shaolin styles do.
Yin style bagua does not ever kick above the waist. Nor have I ever seen anyone do high kicks in any Forms of taiji, or xing yi.
I have limmited knowlage of taiji just what my friend shows me. But you do move mainly slow for the first few years of studie. So if you have A.D.D. like most young people these days you would realize that it's madening to move so slow. In Yin stlye bagua we move fast and smooth, or normal(speed) and use power. when you learn the form you do it a little slower to make sure youve got it. we don't continue this more than it takes to learn the moves unlike taiji that does this forever(you still see taiji masters doing slow movements, do you not?) Oh, and I wasn't "glean" over the slowness of it at all I was just relating to him that after training in a style that moves fast it's strange and anoying to move slow. I tryed taiji for a half hour once and just got all jumpy I like the idea of moving slow in training to making you move faster in combat but in training it's truly madening.
Last edited by goldendragon; 05-01-2004 at 11:04 AM.
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