MaartenSFS wrote:So if I'm not doing TJQ your way I'm doing kickboxing???
When did I said that you need to do anything my way?
If you can't see the Taijiquan in there then that is your problem.
This year I am celebrating 30 years as a diligent Tai Chi practitioner.
he didn't Fajin then it would be seamless. Taijiquan has always had Fajin, though, and one should be able to do so with any technique.
The fajin has nothing to do with it.
He told me that the Yang 24 form was created by martial artists and that the applications are sound. He just has his own expression.
The Yang 24 short form as well as several competition forms was just another attempt to control the martial art and turn it to bleak, useless health practice. The movements though are the same as in any Yang. If you do it as Tai Chi or not had nothing to do with how long or short the form is. The problem with this practice did not came with the form, but the way the teaching was standardized and spread in society, in China and in west. People go to Beijing, study and learn it for two weeks and get a teacher's diploma. Then they go home to their places, teach the movements and water it down further to the very last drop.