Although Grandmaster Yang had a very quiet and composed style, yet somehow in practicing with him I always felt very unsettled, alarmed and almost frightened, as though I were walking along a high cliff edge and about to lose my footing. Or I felt like a clumsy guy who flails anxiously after he trips into the water. Or I would feel as though buried under a heap of straw. I felt he could blast right through me at any time, and that my life might even be in danger.
But Grandmaster Yang wasn’t worked up in the slightest, he would just keep on rising and falling, following my movements, alternately fullness and emptiness and that’s all. I would be left trying to catch the wind, and groping at shadows, toppling and swaying left and right, as though I were standing in deep water. My movements were entirely under his control, I had no autonomous movement left to me at all.
Now, how can something like I’ve described here be possible? Even today I just don’t understand it at all. I have never in my life found anybody else with this level of skill. Even though I learned from Grandmaster Yang for over a decade, I only achieved maybe 20% or 30% of his skill. We are going to have to really work hard to understand Grandmaster Yang’s teachings in order to avoid the total loss of this art altogether in the future.
GrahamB wrote:Adam Mizner woo-woo hop breakdown:
https://video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvide ... e=55A10A4E
willywrong wrote: Do you have this footage link available (Adam Mizner ) as it is in MP4 maybe you have another link to it.
GrahamB wrote:Stuart had broken down the tricks of lots if famous masters. Best way to view the videos is to join this Facebook group:
The Fajin Project
Here's his breakdown of Chee Soo's chair trick:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefaji ... 329687423/
GrahamB wrote:I have lots of thoughts on the clips:
The guys being pushed are clearly hopping, as the breakdowns expose.
Chinese martial arts has always had a performance element. Maybe it's better to just watch the magic show and enjoy it for what it is?
Just because the student hops it doesn't mean the teacher has no skill.
I'm not sure any of this has anything to do with learning to fight.
willywrong wrote:GrahamB wrote:Adam Mizner woo-woo hop breakdown:
https://video-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hvide ... e=55A10A4E
This link is not working and Facebook apologises. Watched the first link but wanted to watch the second link (the above one) before deciding to give an input. I have footage of Patrick Kelly jamming Haung and receiving a tap in the groin from his walking stick after the demo to let him know not to be cheeky. Do you have this footage link available (Adam Mizner ) as it is in MP4 maybe you have another link to it.
GrahamB wrote: Best way to view the videos is to join this Facebook group:
The Fajin Project
windwalker wrote:why should one have to join face book to watch the clips?
windwalker wrote:Is it ok to "jam" someone trying to do a demo?
GrahamB wrote:The guys being pushed are clearly hopping, as the breakdowns expose.
He misunderstands the physics involved
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