Originally Posted by
Water-quan
Well Ive not got limited yiquan experience, I've got extensive experience, and I say 'Master' Fung is a total fraud.
Part of the problem with yiquan, as with all Chinese martial arts, is things get exaggerated beyond all reason. Yiquan training is unusual in some respects - such as the standing posture and slow movement, but there are entirely physiological reasons for doing it... the thing is, the result is not amazing power beyond all imagining, just a fairly straight forwards development of power that comes from using your body better. There are plenty of other ways of developing power too.
What Master Fung does is just fraud, pure and simple. Yiquan especially has several components, and without, for example, those components that include serious combat training - sparring, wrestling, realistic/purposeful push hands - and indeed fitness and conditioning, the rest of it doesn't gel together to make anything much at all. If it did, yiquan guys wouldn't have been adding in stuff like boxing and running from the beginning.
Yiquan is nothing mystical at all - just straightforwards martial arts training. It requires tons of sparring, and real contact training, very much like MMA - it's just that it also includes zhan zhuang, shi li, mocabu, tui shou, to develop integrated body movement and improved motor control connection between brain and body. Unfortunately, like the poster above, most people have no idea of the reality of things like multi-directional force, and so the name itself causes them to think of it in over-blown terms, when the reality is something actually very simple, but the name itselfleads one to appoint over-blown expectations. A sure sign, however, of someone who knows zero about the realityof Yiquan is that they'll use yiquan theory to support the totally fraudulent BS of people like Fung.
Unfortunately, many people, like the poster above, are 'negative devotees' who pretend to be supporters of Yiquan whilst damging its reputation. It's an absoloute, unquestionable fact that people like Wang Xiang Zhai and Zhao Dao Xin, specifically, explicitly, not only repudiated, rejected and heavily criticised fraudulent 'masters' like Fung, but actually used to go to their classes and challenge them to prove their BS.