Rhen wrote:What can remedy the non-sense in Chinese Martial arts?
charles wrote:My suggestion is to spend your efforts in building your art rather than spend your efforts in trying to destroy the art of others. Be the best you can be at what you do: let others be the best of what they can be for what they do. At times, that can be frustrating if you believe what others are doing is lesser, or even fraudulent. Others, largely, need to decide for themselves what is good for them or not.
Rhen wrote:1. Fast form (claiming to have the real one)...
Rhen wrote:to come up with something new and gimmicky and act like "I have something nobody else has".
Rhen wrote:I guess it is that Fraudulent /couterfeitness I'm seeing emerge in the last few years with youtube, social media, and the other platforms that really gets my goat.
Rhen wrote:...
Everyone want to talk about how long that can stand in "Holding the Tree" and other waste of time non-movement type of training.
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HotSoup wrote:Rhen wrote:...
Everyone want to talk about how long that can stand in "Holding the Tree" and other waste of time non-movement type of training.
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While I do share your sentiment in general, it's hard to agree with your statement above. Zhan zhuang was instrumental for me to "get" Fansong. I truly believe that practicing the form and hoping it would "click" one day would take much longer.
That said, replacing other training solely by pole standing is silly, but I wouldn't call the exercise itself a "waste of time non-movement type of training."
Rhen wrote:Excessive Standing aspect was not part of original Taiji, ...
reinvention of the wheel and some of the marketing I'm seeing these days with young guys who teach Taijiquan.
Appledog wrote:
To Rhen, a question I would have asked your teacher is -- why isn't taiji enough? What's the thinking behind that? Not saying it is correct or incorrect I just want to know the reasoning.
Rhen wrote:Anyone hear the following? Excessive Standing aspect was not part of original Taiji, that was imported by a shaolin guy who did taiji, or imported from the popularity of Dachengquan. (at least I tend to have to agree with it.)
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