How to practice body movement - Tai sabaki?
Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 12:46 am
As a follow on from Tom's thread re Transparent Power and from Chris' (Middleway) thread about dealing with a jab, there is a snippet in the book where Sawaga Yukiyoshi says:
"Everyone is simply practicing the Tai Sabaka in shape only. I've been practicing it, modifying it for real situations...What to do when the person comes at me with fast sharp strikes? Or when he rushes me with multiple strikes? When he is able to retract his fist after he strikes. I thought about and experimented with how I could use Tai Sababki against these things...You must be able to deal with an opponent no matter how hard or how fast he comes at you using only Tai Sabaki"
For me this is one aspect that is missing from taijiquan, in my experience there is little or no drills to train this in taiji. Even my own teacher admit that if your are against multiple attackers then you MUST keep moving but in taiji we never train this body movement. Even some of the bagua people i have met and experimented with don't move very well (maybe just they were crap) when it came to a more realistic situation.
So do you practice this?
If so how do you do it?
Is this type of training predominently the domain of Japanese Martial arts (aikido, Daito ryu etc.)?
For me this is a key aspect of my training that is missing and thus would be obliged to get any pointers in this regard.
Allan
"Everyone is simply practicing the Tai Sabaka in shape only. I've been practicing it, modifying it for real situations...What to do when the person comes at me with fast sharp strikes? Or when he rushes me with multiple strikes? When he is able to retract his fist after he strikes. I thought about and experimented with how I could use Tai Sababki against these things...You must be able to deal with an opponent no matter how hard or how fast he comes at you using only Tai Sabaki"
For me this is one aspect that is missing from taijiquan, in my experience there is little or no drills to train this in taiji. Even my own teacher admit that if your are against multiple attackers then you MUST keep moving but in taiji we never train this body movement. Even some of the bagua people i have met and experimented with don't move very well (maybe just they were crap) when it came to a more realistic situation.
So do you practice this?
If so how do you do it?
Is this type of training predominently the domain of Japanese Martial arts (aikido, Daito ryu etc.)?
For me this is a key aspect of my training that is missing and thus would be obliged to get any pointers in this regard.
Allan