klonk wrote:I think it was developed as a martial art, but has somewhat come down in the world. Perhaps it was better stuff before Mao. We shall never know.
Some say it was developed as an exercise to perfect the movements of external martial arts. Others say it drew from and perfected the principles of external martial arts, thus grew beyond them.
External is anything your taiji teacher does not like and practice himself. That is the working definition, as near as I can peg it.
(This is intended as a serious reply, but some people say I am none too serious at any time, so I hope no confusion results.)
mixjourneyman wrote:"some tai chi chuan systems/groups were not affected by "mao" as they left china for various parts of asia before "mao" did his thing."
Thats patently ridiculous. There is a pile of good taiji in China still. In aproximately 15 years, how could Mao possibly have affected all of the taiji community.
bruce wrote:mixjourneyman wrote:"some tai chi chuan systems/groups were not affected by "mao" as they left china for various parts of asia before "mao" did his thing."
Thats patently ridiculous. There is a pile of good taiji in China still. In aproximately 15 years, how could Mao possibly have affected all of the taiji community.
i agree ...
i am sure "mao" had affected much of the tai chi chuan world in china but of coarse not all. but what i was saying is even if he did there are groups of tai chi chuan people who had left china before "mao" was doing his thing.
i think you quote my answer to another posters comment about how he feels mao affected tai chi chuan.
bruce wrote:-what is tai chi chuan?
bruce wrote:-what was tai chi chuan developed for?
bruce wrote:-why practice tai chi chuan?
bruce wrote:-is tai chi chuan a martial art?
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