aka: Bailewen - 白乐文
Me using Baji in a match
Me performing Dabaji and taking silver at a national comp in China (Got gold medals too but no video)
www.xiangwuhui.com
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
Well you are certainly entitled to that opinion. OTOH, those who prefer not to share their forms with the public are entitled to do that as well. Furthermore, I would think that if you value those forms as little as is implied by your post that you would not particularly care that they altered their forms for public performances?
Whatever the reasons, encyclopediac (which Iron Wire is certainly not) or whatever, the people who have these forms in their possession have no moral obligation to share them with anyone other than their direct students and most of them don't.
aka: Bailewen - 白乐文
Me using Baji in a match
Me performing Dabaji and taking silver at a national comp in China (Got gold medals too but no video)
www.xiangwuhui.com
Oh I completely agree Iron Wire is not. There are internal sets and such, e.g. dynamic tension, structural development, that I think are far more important that just technique-based forms.
But most CLF forms I learn, are just combinations, techniques, etc. No qigong, etc.
I should have made a better explanation, the forms I know personally I would not care too much if people try and copy them.
As for Iron Wire and such, well, most people that try to mimic will probably not have the skill level necessary to make full usage of the form anyway? (just a thought).
Peace
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
Yes, that is an issue, especially with Chiu Chi Ling's:The real problem is when you get the distinct impression that what they're doing actually IS "their level".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDTniv8PuW0
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
How'zat go?
Oh.... "You sure know how to pick'em!"
OTOH, I hate it when guys do Tit Sin because there's altogether too much "showmanship" involved to get as good a "read" on their actual skills as you can from a "more typical" set.
Beyond that..... a "somewhat diplomatic": "No comment!" will have to do.
Actually, we do tend to "show" our TSK in a way that best suits what we wanna "show off" at the time, with me because It like to show off the strenght, that is what I do and as you know, other things tend to suffer because of it.
Guilty as charged
As for GM Ling's, well, he's know to be a joker so...
Psalms 144:1
Praise be my Lord my Rock,
He trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle !
It's also just possible that you'd ventured a little too close to considering them cunning linguists.......
My little brother just informed me that he isn't drinking any more.... which in family parlance can also mean that he ain't drinking any less...........Then again, I need to stop drinking on the job.