grzegorz wrote:I work a ton and I don't have a lot of time right now to attend regular group sessions so I mostly do a boxing/kettlebell routine these days. It occurs to me that it is not enough for competitions or anything but that dealing with an athlete in a fight can't be good. Almost to the point where I am becoming convinced that this is the edge that top fighters have. Obviously skills are skills but without fitness then forget about it.
No wonder why these arts are degrading so fast...and furiously.
windwalker wrote:No wonder why these arts are degrading so fast...and furiously.
why are the arts degrading so fast?
who says they are?
willie wrote:windwalker wrote:No wonder why these arts are degrading so fast...and furiously.
why are the arts degrading so fast?
who says they are?
some people are doing these arts because of a spiritual belief.
Some for health and happiness.
Some for limited martial and social reasons.
Some for just martial in mind.
Some all the above.
i believe a lot was lost. But there are people out there who take it very seriously.
oragami_itto wrote: Maybe somebody is taking it further the way YLC did right now but you'll never hear about it.
oragami_itto wrote:
nobody is training to defend their village anymore, and that itself means it's going to be debased a bit. Sport fighting is a bastardization of the arts.
People are doing their thing. Maybe somebody is taking it further the way YLC did right now but you'll never hear about it.
Fubo wrote:oragami_itto wrote:
nobody is training to defend their village anymore, and that itself means it's going to be debased a bit. Sport fighting is a bastardization of the arts.
People are doing their thing. Maybe somebody is taking it further the way YLC did right now but you'll never hear about it.
I don't see sport fighting as a "bastardization of the arts". I see it as an opportunity to develop parts of the arts, and parts of the person as a fighter. Just because someone participates in sport fights doesn't been they can't train the too deadly to spar with techniques or use them at the right opportunity. While there may not be a lot of people training to defend their village, there are plenty of people training to use it on the job, like bouncers, who face physical conflict on a regular basis. I see sport fighting as a training tool, just like sparring in your school, or solo training, or cooperative training. It has its place, and if used properly, can greatly enhance the other aspects of your training and reveal a lot about you as a fighter and things you need to work on.
Let’s start the exploration of the use of intention by investigating how what you think of can affect how your body reacts and moves.
The first thing every student learns is how to relax. Every new student, especially those who have learned Tai Chi before, thinks they know how to relax.
But after trying Intention Exercise 1 they found that their conception of what relaxing really is about is flawed. To relax on an external level is not difficult but to relax internally, to the level that is useful for the practice and application of our Tai Chi is much more challenging.
You either got it or you don’t; when you do it will manifest itself in many other things that you do.
If you achieve a sufficient level of relaxation you will feel that you are very light and susceptible to gentle swaying.
To stop the swaying we use our intention to settle the body by using a mental weight. In the traditional teaching of Grandmaster Wei we call this the bell clapper line. Here I am presenting a much simpler, intuitive idea of what the bell clapper line really is; an idea which if you try it a few times you can feel something so that you know that the Yang style principles of the internal are real.
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