Originally Posted by
YouKnowWho
Let's leave health, performance, self-cultivation, and inner peace out of this discussion.
Does the following bother you?
- Your XingYi teacher asked you to do Pi Chuan everyday.
- You have spent all your life working on Pi Chuan.
- Oneday you get old and look back.
- You realize that you have never used your Pi Chuan in any sparring or street fight.
- You start to wonder if you have spent the same amount training time in you jab, cross, uppercut, hook combo all those years, will you be more happy about yourself in your old age?
Oneday when you become a teacher. Will you teach your students how to do "Pi Chuan", or will you teach your students how to do "jab, cross, uppercut, hook"?
The "jab, cross, uppercut, hook" may not be in your system. But how hard will it be for you to put it into your system (or just put into your own body and forget about your system)?
Have you ever look back and count how many teachniques that you have trained but never being used?
I have used Pi Chuan in every contest, ring or street, I have ever been involved with as have my students. If this concept of Pi is not found useful, I would hazard a guess that it is not well understood by the person attempting to apply same.
Too often, people become "hung" on the notion of the action and forget to apply the concept. It should be understood that by attempting to apply "actions" one learns over time how to apply "concept." After that, actions are of no real use other than to teach others.
Combat is a chaotic event. If you're looking for that "picture perfect technique/kodak moment" then get used to dissapointment. However, if you look to applied concept, well then... now you have something to work with.
That's not to say that I eschew jab, cross, uppercut, hook by any means.
Just my two cents.
One of these days the world is going to become so politically correct that it will scare itself out of existence.
MP 2007