the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Very articulate. Pretty basic, but I like hearing peeps giving well thought out articulate description of their process.

Nice clip.

Best,

S- I'd love to hear what John Wang would have to say about it.

He's doing a eloquent and very decent job of explaining push hands/Tai Chi strategy, centred around the idea of not resisting to force, but the clip is labelled "Fighting" - where's the fighting? How can you talk about fighting without showing any fighting practice like sparring?

Anybody could be forgiven for watching this, and then thinking that what he's showing you is all you need to be able to "fight" with Tai Chi, when it's definitely, oh, so definitely not the case. Maybe he should have called it something else?

I think John Wang would say "Where's the finish strategy?".

I think I would say "Where's the non-cooperative sparring?"

Hmmm...the "distraction" technique he uses at 7:23 was ...interesting. Watching that, I was thinking that his students don't spend enough time hitting the bag or each other. If they did, that little re-direction wouldn't work so well. Other than that, I didn't see so much that was "direct" about his methods despite his description.

Dave C.

Nice. I don't do much Taiji but I think it all applies to Xingyi quan too, especially the small circle