No, silk jammies automatically makes you super awesome guy. And if they're white, even better.
It actually makes the difference between internal and external. But you won't understand 'till you get your first set.
I've never worn them, but they have got to be pretty comfortable. I had a pair of silk boxers once. Not exactly the kind of thing you wanna sweat in, but it sure feels good. Airy as fukc. On a nice summer day with a cool breeze, prolly feels like you're naked.
and you know what else if funny, merry was talking about BJJ when he said you needed both skill and physical attributes..(he is a blackbelt that competes) ....so since you agree it can be seen as an internal art do you also agree that other internal arts also need strength and conditioning.......oh look you agree with me and the rest you just didnt know it
I believe you but maybe I know it by another name ie what is it called in Chinese?
Yes, I know what you are talking about.Rootedness and yeilding are both concepts of taiji. What many people don't understand is how to yeild, at some point there must be a redirect or the opponent acheives their goal and you lose your balance/get hit/get thrown.
The how requires understanding what is being given you, not just understanding your taiji. You must experience many different people at equal or above your own level in many different arts and approaches to get a good feel for how this works.
Not exaclty, what I'm saying is that some of the principles/strategies are the same even if the techniques aren't executed quite the same.
Just out of curiosity have you ever wrestled/pushed/whatever with highly-skilled Taiji master?
I'd encourage it, if only to prove that you're right.
This has been mostly enjoyable discussion and hopefully provoked some thought, but I think we've covered all the ground we can via the written word and we're just going in circles.If a guy is stronger, faster or better than you, when he's tired, he's none of those things. Skill maximizes your effectiveness by amplifying your attributes. And you cannot develop skill if you don't have the attributes needed to constantly test them and refine them under pressure.
I'd just encourage you to test some of your skills against a really skilled and reputable internal practitioners and see if you hold the same viewpoint. As someone coming from an "external" martial art, it changed my view.
Cheers,
EO
Last edited by Eric Olson; 04-02-2011 at 09:55 AM.
I may have to take you up on that - I'll bring the beer! KC is supposed to have good steak - so you bring the steaks... Although I'm poor- so it may be awhile before I can take a real vacation and get out there.
Anyway- I do think there's something to high level yielding. I'm a tactile learner, so first hand experience is the only way I'll be able to incorporate it in my approach to MA... hence my curiosity in trying to uproot a good tai chi guy. I win by losing because if he does yield and it leads to me being off-balanced and thrown- I feel the process first hand and can begin to internalize the concepts. The biggest disappointment for me would be if I do throw the guy.
I haven't. Have you tested your skills against high level Judoka, wrestlers and BJJ people? I'm talking Olympic caliber, ie genuine masters as objectively measured in the meritocratic systems each possess? I have. I can't say it changed my perspective. I was only in awe of the skills. But I know a lot about how they got them.
I doubt sparring with anybody would change my perspective. In my world, there is only skilled and not skilled. Philosophical distinctions are therefore meaningless.
And I don't think we're going round in circles. I don't think my point is coming across, but I am at a loss to make it better. My failing.
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push hands is just an excercise. dont mean sh1t.
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I have done that many times in my life. One Taiji master and his wife knocked on my door and challenged me "push hands" in my own living room. I told him that even if I do Taiji, I don't do push hands, but I'm willing to spar or wrestle with him. He said that he had bad knee and he could not wrestle or spar, so we just sat down, had some tea, and talked. Later on people told me that he had challenged many people in push hands (people said that he was European push hands champion that year).
The reason that I don't do push hands because I had bad experience before. Oneday I was training in the park by myself, a Taiji teacher just finished his class on the otherside of the park. He and one of his students walked toward me and want to "touch hand" with me. Since I didn't understand what "touch hands" mean,
- I grabbed on his arm, he said, "No grabbing".
- I scooped his leg, he said, "No leg".
- I moved in and tried to run him down, he said, "Be careful, I'm an old man (later on I found out that he was younger than me)".
- He pushed me, I stepped back, he said, "You lose".
Last edited by YouKnowWho; 04-02-2011 at 01:10 PM.
Too mamy restriction in Taiji push hand. That make the training not very useful. When you control your opponent's arms, your opponent has to "break away your control". At that moment, all you need is to let go your control and attack. you'll have that 1/10 second upper hand on your opponent. The reason is simple, to "release a control" is faster than to "break a control".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK8oHEB4lU8
In the above clip at 0.06, the reason that your opponent could push you is because you didnot grab on his wrist and control his arm. Why do you want to give him that kind of freedom? If you control his arms by grabbing both of his wrists (put him in defense), when he tries to break your grips, you suddently attack. Trying to assume that your opponent will never grab your wrist is not realistic in combat.
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Last edited by bawang; 04-02-2011 at 04:05 PM.
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I think an internal vs. external debate ultimately ends up being silly. I know people who are skilled in external styles who believe that internal work has helped their external kung fu. However, I've yet to meet anyone who's ever only practiced an internal style who can fight with it. And I mean actually fight, or at least full contact spar.
Sith Legal Kung Fu is unstoppable.