Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Discussion on the three big Chinese internals, Yiquan, Bajiquan, Piguazhang and other similar styles.

Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby Finny on Sat Nov 04, 2017 6:26 pm

ambulocetus wrote:{citation needed} Finny, unless you can provide a citation for that, I will assume that you are one of those with the deeply held opinions to whom I was referring. Are you afraid of what may be revealed?


Sorry what? Have you provided a citation? What 'deeply held opinions' do you think I have shown?

Just fyi - I couldn't give a shit either way. Just offering my thoughts. If you have any of your own I'd happily discuss, but ad hominem is old and boring.
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby ambulocetus on Sat Nov 04, 2017 7:55 pm

Listen Bud, you made the claim that this idea is old and debunked. The person who makes a claim has the burden of proof. That was not an ad hominem ; you came in here with with unsubstantiated claims, leading me to assume that you have an agenda. I was merely speculating on what that agenda likely is. If you started our interaction in a more polite manner, then we could have a discussion, but right now you look like a troll to me. Perhaps others may interact with you in this thread, but I don't think you deserve my attention.
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby Finny on Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:13 pm

Ah - I see. BK Frantzis has famously claimed that aikido was sourced from baguazhang, based on the 'circular footwork' etc. Debunked. That was the example that immediately came to mind. But I've seen plenty of others.

How can you possibly think that physical movement characteristics in combat arts can be used to demonstrate anything of value regarding historical research? What happens when this model highlights the identical grappling characteristics that are simply common to.. grappling, and tells you that Turkish wrestling, catch, and sumo share a common origin? Will that be useful?

Or is your idea that this can be used in a localised way in examining specific arts with known common sources - as you have above with the Yongchun/Okinawan/WC connection? I suppose my next question would be - what is that adding to the knowledge already obtained through traditional evidence based research? (In other words, it is already known that Okinawan/WC/BH arts share a common Fujian ancestry) To be clear, that has absolutely nothing to do with blindly accepting partisan origin stories/myths.
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby ambulocetus on Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:24 pm

B. K Frantzis did not use cladistics. I would wager he's never heard of it. If he had used cladistics, he would not reached an erroneous conclusion. It is much more than simply comparing movement. You jumped to the conclusion that you knew what I was talking about, but you did not read carefully enough. The characteristics to which I am referring include, but are not limited to, terminology, principles, philosophy, colloquialisms, etc. The more characteristics included in the input, the more accurate the output.
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby Finny on Sat Nov 04, 2017 10:31 pm

Sure, but many of those are subjective and/or vague. To be fair, your first post and subsequent examples focused on the toe-in movement as an integral element in establishing the connection between those arts. My sole point was that using movement at all is totally unreliable.
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby ambulocetus on Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:08 pm

I also said that it could be useful to check the efficacy of my hypothesis by running through an example of known provenance to confirm the reliability of the results. Please go back and read the argument I laid out more carefully.
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby Finny on Sun Nov 05, 2017 1:39 am

Would that not risk confirmation bias?

That's ok chief - seems like you have some pretty 'deeply held opinions' of your own. All the best with it though.
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby ambulocetus on Sun Nov 05, 2017 9:02 am

You are correct; I do have deeply held opinions. Here are three of them:
1 the scientific method can solve any problem given enough time and effort
2 manners are important to the smooth running of a community
3 one should always read carefully before commenting
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby Iskendar on Tue Nov 14, 2017 3:27 am

You should contact forum member Sal Canzonieri, he more or less did this and wrote a book about it:

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-History-C ... B00KE8EOVE

Fascinating stuff, though it could have used an editor ;D
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Re: Towards an Accurate MA Family Tree

Postby salcanzonieri on Wed Feb 13, 2019 6:24 pm

ambulocetus wrote:If some future researcher does stumble across this post and thinks my idea has merit, they are welcome to use it. Some interesting controversies that could be a good place to start are:
1. Did BaPan Zhang really come before BaGua
2. Is TongBei really one of the ancestors of TaiJi or are they jumping on the Chen bandwagon
3. Many styles claim to be descended from Yueh Fei. Whose claims are legitimate
Due to the intrigues of the Ching Dynasty and the devastation of the Cultural Revolution, the history of many Chinese styles has been obfuscated. However the future researcher must keep in mind that the results may be rejected by those with closely held opinions.


As people said, I already did this, for 25 years I researched who taught what to who, when and where.
Most people aren't reading Chinese researchers articles. Most answers people are asking we already answered there many years ago.

1. that BaPan Zhang stuff is long debunked. I have a whole section in my book that explains the baloney that was told step by step.

2, Tongebi is a very ancient Chinese martial art, and it was integrated into Shaolin.And that's where Chen got it from. There was a Professor Yang on this forum some years back who wrote many articles about its history, and how it got incorporated into Chen Taiji, step by step. I am sure you can find it in the archives here. I have a bunch of Chinese language books that examined this topics. So, this is already a moot point. I have a whole chapter in my book.

3 - Another topic already solved in China. Yue Fei style is the same as saying Henan Folk martial arts. They are the martial arts that the Southern Song dynasty soldiers practiced when they came back into civilian life. They were Yue Fei's amy's soldiers. Many of these techniques were quite common and found their way into many martial arts that were from Henan, including Henan Xinyo Liuhe Quan. And they are also in all the Hakka martial arts of southern china. Also, a chapter in my book.
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