Doc Stier wrote:Chris:
Unless and until you post videos or still photos of yourself demonstrating or illustrating your points, this thread looks like just another rerun of your often repeated comments on numerous other threads.
If you lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink, there eventually comes a point where you are only beating a dead horse.
Tom wrote:Words do just fine where words are the medium of exchange.
Shooter wrote:Plenty of folks get it well enough to know what the others are talking about
Sprint wrote:Second. Internal training in my opinion is about getting the power of the whole body to a point in space. Often in martial arts contexts people will envisage an over hand right launched from the feet and powering on through to the point where the body is about to fall forwards as being the ultimate in a whole body strike. Weight on the rear leg moving to the front and powering it's way through. A big hit no doubt – as long as it lands. Unfortunately it is easily telegraphed and usually misses. But what if you could get that same power over a much shorter distance without overbalancing? This is the advantage IP brings to an altercation.
Sprint wrote:There is a final aspect to using IP in a fight, and that is speed. IP energizes all the body's muscles, such that movement is not about taking a muscle from a resting state and engaging it, rather it is taking an engaged/energized muscle and fully firing it. I'm not cognisant with the actual physiological processes involved with that, only that I know that a muscle just shy of firing will fire a lot faster than one that has to be energized first.
So you have speed, power and stillness that is on a scale that regular fighters/martial artists can barely conceive. As to tactics – why do I need them.
Return to Xingyiquan - Baguazhang - Taijiquan
Users browsing this forum: wayne hansen and 41 guests