Defining "Internal"

[YouKnowWho]

I would like to add that high level TCMA do not rely on speed and power to defeat their opponent. If this is how you are able to defeat your opponent then you are probably doing all external MA.

Old Chinese saying said,

- "All skills can be countered. Only speed and hardness (power) have no counters".
- "Strength can defeat 10 best skills".
- "Skill can defeat speed. Speed can defeat slow. Slow can defeat no skill".
- "Chinese wrestling is a sport of strength".

[Robinhood]

Old Chinese saying said,

- "All skills can be countered. Only speed and hardness (power) have no counters".
- "Strength can defeat 10 best skills".
- "Skill can defeat speed. Speed can defeat slow. Slow can defeat no skill".
- "Chinese wrestling is a sport of strength".

I think your missing soft defeats hard.

[YouKnowWho]

I think your missing soft defeats hard.

Borrowing force can defeat hard, but soft does not equal to "borrow force". Soft only means "yield" which is defense and not offense. Allow me to borrow this movie clip again. In order for you to be able to kill that bear, you will need:

- borrow force from bear.
- to have a hard object to kill it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31h5gbazwU

You can not use "soft" to kill that bear.

[Robinhood]

Borrowing force can defeat hard, but soft does not equal to "borrow force". Soft only means "yield" which is defense and not offense. Allow me to borrow this movie clip again. In order for you to be able to kill that bear, you will need:

- borrow force from bear.
- to have a hard object to kill it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G31h5gbazwU

You can not use "soft" to kill that bear.

That might be one interpretation of soft from you, but that is not everything soft can be there is more.

Also if someone is soft and you can't hurt him, who is the winner?.

Who is fighting bears, ?, you might need a weapon for that.

[YouKnowWho]

I think your missing soft defeats hard.

Also if someone is soft and you can't hurt him, who is the winner?

First your talked about "soft defeats hard". Now you talk about "soft can't be hurt by hard".

"soft defeats hard" does not equal to "soft can't be hurt by hard".

[SPJ]

Internal and external are referring training focuses.

We need to practice how to be soft and how to be hard.

and how to be in between and change.

[Robinhood]

First your talked about "soft defeats hard". Now you talk about "soft can't be hurt by hard".

"soft defeats hard" does not equal to "soft can't be hurt by hard".

When you can't hurt him because he is soft, does not mean he has to be soft to hurt you, but that is up to him.

If booth people are hard then the stronger wins, that's why you need soft to counter hard.

[extrajoseph]

Would you believe the Chinese also used soft to contrast with the hard so we can come to appreciate that one needs the other to be effective?

[YouKnowWho]

Who is fighting bears, ?, you might need a weapon for that.

If you need to fight against a bear, do you think that "soft" by itself will be enough?

[ShaolinDan]

If you need to fight against a bear, do you think that "soft" by itself will be enough?

depends...if you have some food to give it, it might be. Otherwise, well, hard probably won't work too well either...least not on a kodiak or grizzly, maybe on a black bear.

[Robinhood]

If you need to fight against a bear, do you think that "soft" by itself will be enough?

Well, if the bear did not have teeth or claws it would help.

Are you going to flip the bear to hurt him?, or choke him out?, or punch him?

[ShaolinDan]

Well, if the bear did not have teeth or claws it would help.

Are you going to flip the bear to hurt him?, or choke him out?, or punch him?

Eye gouge. and then pull out its tongue.