by juz on Thu May 22, 2008 3:18 pm
boy you guys are worse than a gin soaked sewing circle for gossip...$10000...lolz
truth is 95%+ of chen taijiquan people train form and play at the combat side with ph or whatever...as long as theres money to be made showing a form/routine with next to no application then people looking for real chen ima are generally fudged...but having had my hands on some chen masters I know its there..Zhang Dong Wu last summer well and truly had me bent up no matter how I tried to get him, liming yue threw me around like a rag doll at a time I was benching 150kg+...the grounding, power, explosive force, its there, but wheres the testing...its frustrating that testing on "the mat" isn't more of a part of Chen, and that teachers that can really do the do are rarer than hens teeth.
What I really need right now is a montage....