Re: Practical Method - Push Hands Challenges (Daqingshan)
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2015 7:37 am
What I'm saying is push hands is only a platform for testing your skill in certain areas, a lot of Taiji people here take push hands to be the be all and end all. They take your skill at push hands to be a conclusion of your skill at martial arts. If a boxer met a judoka and asked him to put gloves on and have a boxing match, would that be a fair way to test the judokas skill? Surely a fair way would be for both parties to try each other out at their own respective games - ie a match in each format.
When I trained Taekkyon in Korea, a lot of the students wanted to spar with me, initially they only wanted me to play their rules - which was using legs. Well I wasnt used to not being able to us my hands at all, and was being owned. However, later when I suggested we have a try with hands too, the tables turned and they realised I had some skill. In the end we both respected each others specialities, and after class I would show some of them mantis hand techniques. The teacher even asked me to give some demonstrations in my last class before I left Korea.
You've said in several posts you question the amount of time I've spent in China.... I've been here since 2007, except for a year I spent in Korea (spring 2014-15). Yes, I understand the culture quite well.... and it is because of that I don't just accept everything. IME it is the people who are new to a country who accept everything they see as they feel like a guest. When you've been here some time, you start to question things, rather than just accept it "as the way it is".
When I trained Taekkyon in Korea, a lot of the students wanted to spar with me, initially they only wanted me to play their rules - which was using legs. Well I wasnt used to not being able to us my hands at all, and was being owned. However, later when I suggested we have a try with hands too, the tables turned and they realised I had some skill. In the end we both respected each others specialities, and after class I would show some of them mantis hand techniques. The teacher even asked me to give some demonstrations in my last class before I left Korea.
You've said in several posts you question the amount of time I've spent in China.... I've been here since 2007, except for a year I spent in Korea (spring 2014-15). Yes, I understand the culture quite well.... and it is because of that I don't just accept everything. IME it is the people who are new to a country who accept everything they see as they feel like a guest. When you've been here some time, you start to question things, rather than just accept it "as the way it is".