But the weight distribution does matter.
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But the weight distribution does matter.
There's a concept we can debate. I've often heard that, but honestly it has usually been from people that had horrible stances and lower body strength. Having said that, I've seen good tai chi from people with low rooted stances and wonderful tai chi from higher stances. To me, lower is better as long as you can maintain the tai chi principlas. Going low and straining is counter-productive. But if you can maintain balance, root, fluidity, and relaxation, then go lower in your forms practice. Thoughts?
I think those are great comments and agree 100% that the principles shoul be maintained. Personally, I thInk it makes sense to go as low as possible while still being able to have relaxed breathing and smooth transition. Also to keep in mind how pushing hands is played. Typically the lower the stance the firmer the root.
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YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I KNOW OR HOW SMART I AM OR HOW DUMB I AM YOU ARE A WEAK LITTLE MAN TRYING TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL BIGGER BY CUTTING OTHERS DOWN , TYPICAL BULLY MENTALITY. i HAVE NOTHING TO DEFEND SO I WONT COMMENT ON YOUR STUPIDITY AND LACK OF MARTIAL SPIRIT ASSOCIATED WITH THIS TYPE OF INTERACTION YOU CHOOSE TO SEEK. WE ALL HAVE OUR POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES, I PERSONALLY WOULD RATHER BE DUMB THAN BE LIKE YOU. KC
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Both The and Leonard look really, really shabby in those videos. It really seems that perhaps either The learned something from a real teacher a long, long time ago and got extremely rusty, or he learned it from a book or a video. Definitely not "grandmaster" material.
Leonard's Xingyi....well, the moves are there, but it looks like he never spent any time with a real xingyi teacher. He had no business teaching that stuff.
So I guess we are still waiting for the "good stuff," though I find it ironic that for a system that rips forms from other styles would be have qualms about posting material.