im saying its not your strikers bias, the chen taichi family removed all their wrestling techniques. where as different boxing stances (although distorted) appear over a dozen times
all the tai chi families dont have proper terms for wrestling techniques. this isnt obivious when they teach non chinese because its mute teaching, but in chinese the lack of words isnt normal.
sometimes in "hardcore extreme push hands" demos they do the overhooks and underhooks but have no names for them. can you see how rediculous that is?
its good to try to make tai chi combat effective, but fake wrestling is not the answer. the only way is to accept that punching a man will not look pretty, and also incorporate actual modern wrestling.
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