Liu Rui 刘 瑞 (Zhaobao taijiquan) died

[Jarek]

Tom, thank you for posting the information.
Few have been exposed to the style taught by late Master Liu Rui, and words of videos can only say and show this much. I do not want to express my opinion about his skill, being Master Liu's disciple, and obviously biased. TCMA community lost a person of rare skill.
R.I.P.

[nicklinjm]

So sad to hear of his passing. Never met him, but from various sources M Liu seemed to have a high level of skill, RIP

Jarek, as you studied with him for many years, could you share some stories of why you started studying with him, how he taught, etc? Think it would be of real value for anyone interested in this style.

[cloudz]

Sorry for the loss. RIP
Had not seen this one before, really nice.

[Jarek]

Jon, his teaching style was different from anything I had been exposed to, apart from maybe the daoist practices. The classes were like meditation sessions, and in the beginning I was not sold on to it - until I saw what he could do. He completely rejected any strength training, any use of physical strength, even a bit. When he applied his style, his applications were completely effortless - I mean completely. Hard to believe, you would have to feel it. My feeling was that he had an extremely high level of returning your own power to you, so did not need to add anything else on top - well, maybe apart from some help from the gravity.

Internally he could do things you read about in books, but I do not want to discuss it here. BTW I do not think he could throw people around without touching them.

The funny thing is his TJQ routine seems so incredibly useless, weak and unattractive...

Jarek

[Bao]

R.I.P.

He completely rejected any strength training, any use of physical strength, even a bit. When he applied his style, his applications were completely effortless - I mean completely. Hard to believe, you would have to feel it. My feeling was that he had an extremely high level of returning your own power to you, so did not need to add anything else on top - well, maybe apart from some help from the gravity.

Seems like high quality Tai Chi. Interesting fellow. Would love to hear more stories, from you or from his students.

[Martin]

RIP.

Jarek, very sorry to hear this!