Walk the Torque wrote:I think Hsing Yi would look quite different to Tai Chi for that reason alone.
johnwang wrote:I think old TCMA masters had spent a lot of training time in their footwork and speed training. It's like a monkey pokes on a wasp nests. The monkey will poke a hole in that wasp nests in lighting speed. The monkey then run away with lighting speed. Fighting will need to be that kind of speed with alert.
Sometime we mis-understand the Taiji principle, "If you don't move, I won't move. If you move, I ...". You just don't wait for your opponent to move. You will need to sense that your opponent has "intention" to move. The moment that you can sense his intention, you attack. The key is you will need to have excellent judgement about your opponent's "intention" (how and where he is going to move). You then enter that "leak" that he is going to create but hasn't created it yet. The moment that your body has moved into your opponent, the moment that your opponent will expose his "leak" for you. That's "lighting speed". I believe any good TCMA master should all fight like this.
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