Drills That Represent Your Style

[SPJ]

What will those 4 drills that can represent the WC and Taiji system? Anybody want to give a try?

for tai ji

1 grasping the sparrow's tail

2 cloud hand

3 covering body fist or bie shen chui

4 kao, most of the moves/postures may contain or end with kao

bie shen shui can be bie shen kao etc

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I pick them because

1. restraining arm, wrist and elbow

2. deflecting to the side (peng la and lu) to defend against arm and elbow

3 covering our front and then introducing fist, wrist, elbow or shoulder

4 kao is a big thing in Tai ji, lots of people ignore this, ouch

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[-N-]

If you extract fighting techniques from forms, make them into both "solo" drills and "partner" drills and just train those drills. No more form training. What will be the future of your style?

Extract into drills to train, and use in sparring. That's exactly what my teacher told us to do.

He said knowing forms was useless unless you did this with the techniques and trained them to death.

That is how to continue the system.

Another interest question is, if you have trouble to extract effective combat techniques from the forms of your system, what does that mean?

If you are from a legit system, then it means you are a bad student.