You have no idea of the people I have met
I can't quite work out where I am derailing the thread
I know kao lien told the teeth to toe story but we have no idea if it is true or not
The ban Hao clip above is interesting but so different to kuang ping style that we wonder how they could differ so much in two generations with only 3 disciples
I see the benifit in this type of training for leg strength bot don't see where it goes beyond pistol squats
At the same time I can see a lot of double weighting
You talk about having knowledge that I don't have but I yet to see any proof of that
When you start talking about what your experiences are vs mine I would say that tends to
derail it just like now with my reply.
Taiji is said to be about training the body to follow the dictates of the mind.
There are a couple of ways and approaches for doing this, not the subject of the thread nor this post.
Whether the Ban Ho, story was true or not the fact is that some teachers Kuo, being of the them used this as an entrance into their teachings.
Kuo became one of only four inner-door disciples of Wang Jiao-Yu, himself one of only two inner-door students of Yang Pan-hou. Yang Pan-hou was the son of the originator of what has become known as Guang Ping Yang t'ai chi ch'uan: Yang Luchan born Kuang-p'ing (Guangping) and known as the founder of Yang-style tai chi chuan. After completing "Chin to Toe" in 100 days Kuo was taught the Guang Ping Yang t'ai chi ch'uan from the 100-year-old master Wang Jiao-Yu.
The benefits of the training kind of depend as to how close one wants to replicate what was said of some past masters the yang founder being one of them.
There are also qi gong related benefits dependent on age regarding the training, which past a certain age are no longer available.
As to knowing who you know or you knowing who I know, I guess it depends on the experience if it matters or not.
Within my experience what you noted on PH it's not really true.
Which to me would seem to indicate that our experiences may be different.
Not here to teach, or educate.
I do find the conversations interesting at times.