tai chi not bound me? tai chi not bound me? I AM TAI CHI
theres no such thing as taijiquan . it doesnt exist.
tai chi not bound me? tai chi not bound me? I AM TAI CHI
theres no such thing as taijiquan . it doesnt exist.
Last edited by bawang; 03-28-2011 at 02:39 PM.
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You don't have to be strong to be "good" but you have to be strong to be the "best". When you go to a tournament and you believe that you may be the strongest person there, you will have good chance to win that day.
Tai Chi Bob, you are a passve aggressive hippy.
Can you live without breathing?
What is breath?
Where does it come from?
Can you live without water?
Where does it comes from?
Where do you come from?
Where are you?
Reality is not bound by your opinions.
Go get in a fight and measure your ruler.
Otherwise, your attacks are fruitless and rejected.
Kung Fu is good for you.
TaiChiBob.. "the teacher that is not also a student is neither"
IThose so called "external" guys also train Sung, yield, sticky, follow, sink, ... all those "internal" goodies. May be EMA guys just don't like to talke much. It doesn't mean that they don't have knowledge in those areas.
IMO, there is only the right way to train and the wrong way to train. There is no "internal" way to train and there is no "external" way to train.
Last edited by YouKnowWho; 03-28-2011 at 11:40 PM.
traditional european martial art
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMdXE...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aouiU...eature=related
traditional african martial arts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jWaq...eature=related
traditional chinese martial arts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7KxuDYfpSQ
Last edited by bawang; 03-28-2011 at 07:05 PM.
Honorary African American
grandmaster instructor of Wombat Combat The Lost Art of Anal Destruction™®LLC .
Senior Business Director at TEAM ASSHAMMER consulting services ™®LLC
anyway--
the ship has sailed
or the train has left.
what is done is done.
both internal and external have left town.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihWI9...eature=related
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http://kungfupracticebook.blogspot.c...ord-class.html
both yielding and advancing
both internal and external aspect are at play.
In my experience both are valuable and necessary. Even in chen style they do some strength training like shaking the pole and such. The problem with most internal stylist is they do very little pressure testing so it is easy to believe anything will work.
I train in both internal and external systems, and can see real benefits from both in solo training and in sparring. For example zhan Zhuang standing post is very useful in my Shuai Jiao and judo training. so are the strength training exercises of shuai jiao, when actually wrestling an opponent. And I was a push hands competitor and also did both internal and external for that training as well. And it paid off cause i won a gold and silver metal before. Where many of the internal guys I met having trained for years never even did any form of freestyle pushing or sparring before.
Last edited by wiz cool c; 03-29-2011 at 01:10 AM.
"The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero projects his fear onto his opponent while the coward runs. 'Fear'. It's the same thing, but it's what you do with it that matters". -Cus D'Amato
Strength/Power + Speed can also beat skill.
Roy Jones Jr. crushed dozens of opponents with physical advantage attributes alone.
He beat Bernard Hopkins who was the more skilled and technical fighter.
Later on when his explosiveness and speed died down a lot, Hopkins avenged the loss.
Technique will be there, power will decrease, and speed will decrease, but to think that power and speed have less importance than pure technique is silly thinking. Plenty of less technical fighters get by with raw aggressive, power, and strength.
It is bias to think that the art of war is just for killing people. It is not to kill people, it is to kill evil. It is a strategem to give life to many people by killing the evil of one person.
- Yagyū Munenori
Size and Power win 99.999% of the time.
It cannot be denied.
If you want the martial advantage, you have to work on:
strength, conditioning and stamina.
Your style is virtually meaningless against the basics combined with the above three.
No one has great martial skill who doesn't practice totality in their vessel maintenance.
Doing only internal martial arts without supplemental work will get you exactly no where martially.
You must work on strength and conditioning and stamina.
Most of, almost all who do not focus into these areas will be mediocre when it comes to actually testing the mettle. There are no more unknowns in this regard really. It's all about tweaking the methods to get higher performance out of the people who use the methods.
the old methods had some good stuff too. Weight lifting, weighted vests, arms legs, lifting stone locks or balls, running, body work, hardwork in the fields etc etc.
Gazing at your average ball of dough that calls itself a martial artist these days is indicative of the people who make claims to these ancient arts not actually doing them in totality.
Kung Fu is good for you.