cdobe wrote:Salvatore Canzonieri wrote:Further, the first SIX movements/ postures (everything before “Brush Knee Twist Step” in TJQ) in ALL the various sets are exactly mechanically and functionally identical, including the initial preparation salute movements.
Source:
http://www.bgtent.com/naturalcma/CMAarticleComparisonChart.htmThis would be my comparison of Wu2, Yang and Chen TJQ.
Okay, understood.
it's not just postures that are compared, but the function of the movement where you are at that particular point in the sets.
For example, at the point of the sets, Raise Hand is done by Yang and the subsequent styles that came from Yang, at THAT point in the Chen set, Chen does Turn left and Pound Mortar. This movement includes Raise hands in it first, then the "mortar is pounded" happens, a and b. The Yang and post Yang sets take out the Pound Mortar, but you are at the same point in the sets at that time and they have similar applications, the function of the movements are the same.
Chen gets the pound mortar from the other sets that are shown to the right of the Chen column, in that row.
I am showing evolution in the table as well, what's same, what's different.
You miss the point of the table, not that "everything" is the same, but that looking at each column, the table as a whole, you can see that in ESSENCE, all these styles are functionally following along the same path (with some slight detours, but each style goes back on this path).
Its a road map, showing that these styles are all interrelated and all follow the same road (top to bottom), and all stem from the same ancestral sources, which is shown as you move from left to right on the chart.