what it boils down to ( and forgive me for not reading the 70+ posts to date) is that no art is complete. I've seen awesome judo folks playing, I wanna fight or study under and taiji dudes who I'm confident could the as* they needed to.Originally posted by Repulsive Monkey
I know of a high level Judo practitioner who switched to Cheng Man Ching style Taiji, and then went on to win a few golds at a high ranking competition. He said he gave up on his Judo and just used Taiji in his fights but made it look like Judo and he totally sailed all the way to gold positions in his category.
He said after all his years doing Judo he realised that Taiji washed the floor with his opponents.
Remember , behind the art there is the practitoner and behind the practioner is a multitude of vartiants!!!!!!! How do you compare that???!!!