Bill wrote:Is there anyone in the L.A. area doing this sort of work? I need to experience this myself.
jaime_g wrote:So you dont work on the first movement of every taichi form?
oragami_itto wrote:What I admire most about you, Willie, is your humility.
jaime_g wrote:+1. Aiki age-sage can be demonstrated using any body part, for strikes, throws, chokes, and locks. My favourite option is a muay thai type of clinch using aiki age-sage mechanics.
The rising from the wrist grab thing isnt the only thing Roy does, it's just the way Daito Ryu starts teaching it, just as Taichi starts rising hands.
C.J.W. wrote:Gunpowder, by itself, only explodes and creates energy. But once you know how to put it in firearms and artillery, it is capable of powering deadly weapons of destruction.
By the same token, the vids are meant to demonstrate some of the mechanics and characteristics of rising/expanding and falling/compressing energies (or Peng and An in Taiji terms) -- NOT their fighting applications.
The short burst of rising energy we see in the second vid can be easily turned into an uppercut into the floating ribs, a nasty low front kick below the knee, or used to violently uproot an opponent in stand-up grappling; the falling/compressing energy in the first vid, on the other hand, can be done on someone coming in for a single/double-leg by stuffing them to the ground, or applied in a choke or neck crank to cause serious damage.
The possibilities are......truly endless if you know what to do with them.
C.J.W. wrote:Bill wrote:Is there anyone in the L.A. area doing this sort of work? I need to experience this myself.
This sort of work is not unlike those spectacular PH or Qi-power demos because a certain degree of cooperation is required, namely that the partner is willingly providing (and not changing) their "frame" to receive energy.
Having said that, any good CIMAists should be able to replicate what is shown in that vid with ease.
Here's a HK-based Liuhebafa teacher doing similar (and arguably better ) things based on the same principles. At 2:00 he shows how an upward expanding energy can be turned into a quick pulse and used to "shock" the opponent. (Notice how his partner is stunned temporarily and starts rubbing his neck to relieve the discomfort -- signs that the burst of energy was highly penetrative and traveled all the way up to the head.)
willie wrote:jaime_g wrote:So you dont work on the first movement of every taichi form?
Jamie, I don't think that you realize the scope of the instruction that I received. So I will fill you in just a little bit. There was a brown belt under a National kickboxing champion who I met in MMA, who was also a purple belt. He came back to class telling real stories after getting his ass handed to him over and over and over again by some strange, very secretive, Tai Chi Master. That teacher is my sifu. What you are seeing in those videos is pretty much worthless for fighting. Sure it should be entertained as beginner stuff only.
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