Originally Posted by
wiz cool c
I have been living in Beijing and studying Shuai Jiao and Bagua for one year now. Here are the main differences. In wrestling we spar regularly. We go at it try to throw each other as hard as we can. If you loss nobody thinks anything of it. Everyone who wrestles regularly losses sometime. I did today by two more experenced S/J guys,no big deal.
Now for the Bagua. Although I love this art and know it is applicable to fighting, they never spar in this school. They do forms and learn the applications to the form.
Now if you go on youtube and look at some push hands tournaments see the things people write it is amazing. This guy sucks he knows nothing. So and so OldMaster can effortlessly throw people. They almost never applie their art and have a real fantasy idea of what goes on under pressure.
People who have never done a push hands tournament making comments. These people need to do more resistance training and less theorizing.