by C.J.W. on Mon Nov 20, 2017 6:07 pm
First clip: Real.
The foreign student is going at the teacher with resistance and intensity, albeit in a moving-step PH format.
Second clip: Real & Fake.
Real in the sense that there is resistance and striking involved, but fake because his opponents are either weaklings who were handpicked to lose, or been told to take a dive. (There was also quite a bit of controversy back then surrounding those televised Taiji matches because most of the participants were students at the Chenjiagou Taijiquan School. With CZQ being the chief instructor of the school and a big-name within the Chen Taiji family, many of them were uncomfortable going against him in public, and felt obligated to extend him the courtesy of victory. One senior student even chose to forfeit when he realized he'd be fighting CZQ in the last rounds of the competition.)
Third clip: Fake.
If it were real, that poor guy would have to be the worst Muay Thai fighter I've ever seen!
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C.J.W. on Mon Nov 20, 2017 8:21 pm, edited 2 times in total.