Ian wrote:It seems many taichi guys have the habit of adopting moves that look effective and claiming they're already "in taichi" - conveniently, in taichi 'one move can have a thousand applications' so pretty much everything is "in taichi" - instead of trying to figure out how a movement should correctly be applied in their style.
Didn't Yang chengfu say "one must execute techniques correctly", meaning to the inch? This begs the question:
Does a practitioner, by merely taichi-fying common moves like reaping throws and chokes, sell himself short?
And if the application for brush knee twist step were really the same as what Cung Le is showing, why not practice it that way in the form?
Bhassler wrote:the movements in form are not precisely anything, but are precisely almost any number of things. The idea is that you go to a certain point and no further because you're practicing a particular shenfa or coordination, and how that coordination manifests will be slightly different depending on the situation. It's a way of learning that is meant to engender spontaneity rather than an "if A then B" type of approach.
Dmitri wrote:+1, couldn't have said it better.
Taiji form (unlike just about any other art's form that I can think of, except maybe I Liq Chuan's) is NOT (or should not be) a "collection of techniques", -- in my understanding of it anyway, most people's mileage seems to vary on this.
Chris McKinley wrote:John,
While that would seem true, it still doesn't address the logical contradiction I brought up.
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