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Classical Tai Chi
Published on May 19, 2017

How to generate power in baseball using Internal Discipline in Classical Tai Chi:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzUSV_wQSwk


Classical Tai Chi
Published on May 19, 2017

How to generate power in tennis by Roger Federer & Serena Williams using the internal discipline of Classical Tai Chi. Learn about Tai Chi Internal Discipline:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuu881kl0Os


Classical Tai Chi
Published on May 19, 2017

How top boxer Manny Pacquiao utilizes internal discipline of Classical Tai Chi to generate their power:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKrh7gSZcVg

I never really noticed the shoulder-hip harmony at the moment of impact before but it makes sense.

I'm starting to think of taijiquan less as a style and more as ... I don't know. Not a style. The thing that styles point to. For example, Connor Macgregor embodies many of the principles but I doubt he's ever studied it.

Point being, though, it's technology or an engine that can drive almost anything, not just hurting people.

oragami_itto wrote:
I'm starting to think of taijiquan less as a style and more as ... I don't know.

Haha, that's why the lineage holders created a 5-stage map. The inventors of the styles incorporated their highest
Ideal in the forms. The style is the applications from the forms

You've clearly grasped the central theme of the point.

oragami_itto wrote:I never really noticed the shoulder-hip harmony at the moment of impact before but it makes sense.

I'm starting to think of taijiquan less as a style and more as ... I don't know. Not a style. The thing that styles point to. For example, Connor Macgregor embodies many of the principles but I doubt he's ever studied it.

Point being, though, it's technology or an engine that can drive almost anything, not just hurting people.

Another point . . . Per Stephen Hwa, "external" sports athletes use internal body structure to generate internal power too. Although, the training methods are different from "internal" practitioners.

Per Hwa (and Miyamoto Musashi), there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.

oragami_itto wrote: it's technology or an engine that can drive almost anything

definitely can help give improvements into many other areas of sports or whatever.

it's too bad "it" is not something anyone can agree on as to what "it" is, even on an IMA board, when we probably all can agree that it can help in many other ways.