neijia_boxer wrote:... he talked about that he could easily able to defeat some of the top Chen style form and push hands champions, that they weren't even doing tai chi, and talking smack about wushu that I lost all respect for the guy and some of his knucklehead internet bullies.... he lost the mental 'push mind' game ;p
gosao wrote:
Bwil wrote:I have a number of questions concerning this "ability" for lack of a better term. Besides the is it real part. Moving past this, if it is real then why do so few people seem able to do it? Is the training publicly available and its just a case of more of the same and eventually you will get it? Is it not available so the majority of people can't do this because they haven't been taught how? If thats the case then why the hell isn't it available? Its 2011 for fucks sake, do you want to die with no one knowing how?
Ima was my introduction to MA unless you count 10 years of scholastic wrestling. I admit my expectations were more than a little tinged with magical thinking. As my art and my mind grew up I became pretty dismissive of anything remotely resembling this kind of thinking much less demonstration. If questioned about it the majority of the time I'll answer that I think the internal/external division is at best one of curriculum progression and by and large a bullshit dichotomy. I'll even admit that lately I learn more about IMA from mma than anywhere. The combativeness is sorely missing from the majority of IMA training even for the small percentage of people who really want that, so it isn't a wast of time imo. That said, is it counter productive from developing a skill such as this and more importantly just how useful a skill is it?
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gosao wrote:
If you already knew it was BTDT, why didn't you just start it there?
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