Quote Originally Posted by bawang View Post
its a form of hypnosis. you literally cant generate power or defeat your master because you are hypnotized.
nah it's not even that. It's ego. I guess you could say it's cult of personality. It bothers me, and it should bother the "Masters" that are perpetrating it... but they believe their delusion. I blame the students too - for feeding the delusion. I think that a student should, at some point during their career, during push hands, give a real challenge to the "Master". Actually, all advanced students and the Master should always give real challenge to each other. Then everyone's kung fu would be at a high level. And yes, at some point, when the Master is elderly, you take it easy on him, but they've earned it then.