hodmeist wrote:Wang Xiangzhai reincarnated !!
Seriously Maarten, I have been having similar thoughts for a while now. The more I investigate Yiquan, the more it makes sense. I am not saying you are training Yiquan but a lot of what you say above I have come across when investigation Wang Xiangzhai's method. Good luck.... I would be very interested in your feedback as you progress.
cloudz wrote:to be honest, there's not any difference in the end for me. But you should do both really and then make your choices. I still do both..
there is absolutely NO reason everything in your gongli / neigong/ jibengong / weigong/ qigong cannot be in your forms (it of course 100% should be!) and your forms not to contain combat applications. Strung together or not what difference does it make.. performance and "looking good" is not what it's about. And wasn't it your current teacher you posted clips of doing TCC form not long ago ?
I keep the form because my time is limited and it hits a lot of things at once - for me, so sometimes it is more suitable. I do single exercise too of course, but form gives you something else and it gives me a truer sense of style and continuous movement. Moving Zhuang if you like, I think that's a great tool for TCC training.
Maybe it's a tai chi thing and something I have gotten so used to, I won't do without it. Main thing is I enjoy doing it.
To be honest, these forms short or long are not anything to do with combat or fighting in of themselves so I don't fall for that shit at all. You learn to fight with partners, end of. Not doing solo exercises - whatever they are.
MaartenSFS wrote:Every master or fighter that I have met in China that doesn't make their living teaching martial arts doesn't do forms. When they train, they train very basic Gongli exercises, most of which double up as combat applications.
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