oragami_itto wrote:Yeah, looks like they've updated the original post with the right name.
I think they call it the world mixed martial arts competition because they welcome people from all over the world of any stylistic background. I don't know much else about the format, but the important part here is Taijiquan exponents winning their events against folks from other disciplines.
I think they call it the world mixed martial arts competition because they welcome people from all over the world of any stylistic background.
Why not just come out and say it was me that gets your panties in a bunch? A video is put out and we're all just supposed to "love it". Do you agree that there should be standards? Why don't we just post a bunch of Jake Mace videos on taiji while we're at it.
Kung fu in general gets bashed around enough and especially Taiji. Dang right, I believe that if Taiji is really supposed to be graduate level work then it's should be held to a high standard.
Gus Mueller wrote:Do you recognize how extraordinarily offensive, bothersome, and not-safe-space it is to point out that people are obviously "jumping or hopping"? And putting in timestamps, that just racist, man!
Post by liokault on Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:03 am
I assume there is a reason he hasn't posted any video.
Until we see some, this thread is pointless.
Subitai wrote:Gus Mueller wrote:Do you recognize how extraordinarily offensive, bothersome, and not-safe-space it is to point out that people are obviously "jumping or hopping"? And putting in timestamps, that just racist, man!
I'm not sure if you were being facetious so I just want to apologize if board members have a problem with that. Trying to discuss no racism intended.
I would like to say something positive about Adam so as not to assume that I see only bad. Now that I've seen a little more. He displays good skill in just about all the check marks one would expect from someone that would have learned from that many teachers...I think his site says 7 of them?? Good to know and better yet, he's getting his students to mix it up. Again, that's is the way IMO to move the art forward. I don't know about his chi gong, but I'm confident in thinking that it should be very good level.
As I said before I was mostly concerned with the hopping / stutter stepping (and earlier Falling). Those are mainly directed at his students. Thus it affects the demo in question.
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Now about this:Post by liokault on Mon Nov 21, 2016 10:03 am
I assume there is a reason he hasn't posted any video.
Until we see some, this thread is pointless.
Is that directed at me because I said I could do it? Ok, Jeeze, that post was last night (Sunday nite) and I do have a job (today Monday) and just got home. I wonder when I'd have time to make a video to prove something that's pretty common knowledge. That being that there a few lineages that work heavily on the concept of "Yield to emptiness". My school is one of them. So that is why I feel like I have to speak up.
I will do it if that's what people need to see. But I would hopefully think that the level of Taiji understanding by most posters here can figure out what I said by the description I gave in my last prior post: 1) and 2) as a valid answer.
Again when you make someone empty, you don't just STOP and wait to be hit. In my school we say make his energy long (or extended) and after that... you immediately apply a change, be it strike, lock or whatever.
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