S- Kicks up feet, cracks beer.
Cracks beer as well and smiles! No butthurtedness here. Happy training all!
S- Kicks up feet, cracks beer.
middleway wrote:S- Kicks up feet, cracks beer.
Cracks beer as well and smiles! No butthurtedness here. Happy training all!
northern_mantis wrote:However I took something slightly differently from the video, rightly or wrongly, in that they were trying to get him to maintain grip against his intent. Was this not your interpretation?
Bao wrote:northern_mantis wrote:However I took something slightly differently from the video, rightly or wrongly, in that they were trying to get him to maintain grip against his intent. Was this not your interpretation?
I don't understand why this should be a goal. If you can make the method work, you'll make it work. If not, you change. No, I don't believe you can make it happen against everyone or in any situation.
On a side-note: I remember one day for approx ten years ago when I was not in very good shape mentally speaking because of personal, family related matters. I got into a quarrel with a guy (mostly my own fault) and it almost turned into a fight. He got hold on the sleeves to my jacket. I decided to not try to do anything at all, so I just stood there waiting, staring at him until he got tired and calmed down. Although I have made my stupid share of fighting, the thing for me this particular day was that I just could not sink, I didn't manage to relax or breath properly and sink down my weight. There was no Tai Chi for me that day, I was completely blocked. So this is also another aspect of reality: you never know how you will react in a situation depending on your own daily shape. I bet that many people who believe that they could easily let go of their own grip, and someone who usually could do so, could find himself in a similar situation, tricked and immobilised by his own mind. You never know how you will react in a real situation or what will affect you to react or behave a certain way. Anything can happen. What happens on street will be nothing like a friendly sparring match or like a sports match when you have months to prepare yourself both physically and mentally.
... Just a general reflection, not meant as lecturing anyone.
Trick wrote:If you had crossed trained some jujutsu/judo, hell even aikido you would been more prepared for the suprised lapel grabb-
The eight trigrams and five elements are innate within us. You must first understand that they are based in these four terms: perception, realization, activation, action. [These four terms amount to “moving with awareness”.
This is a breakdown of four words – 知, 覺, 運, 動 – which would typically, and especially so for modern Chinese speakers, only be considered as two terms: 知覺 and 運動. To break movement (運動) and awareness (知覺) into their component parts results in: moving = the activation (運) of movement + the act (動) of moving, and awareness = the perception (覺) that something is + the realization (知) of what it is. In short, moving with awareness.
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