LDShouler wrote:Thanks for lots of interesting replies, although it would be great if we could avoid falling into a debate about detail of a particular style. My conjecture is just that, for talking about ideas, and not to imply that everything should be changed and repackaged. I personally do not have a singular style or tradition (and I respect those of you who do), and having practised various styles of 'internal arts' (wu tai chi, yi quan, a bit of sun style ba gua and hebei xing yi) whilst coming from a background of 'external' styles, I'm interested more in commonalities than differences- I believe there"s a potential value to finding core attributes and perhaps a simple series of exercises that could contribute to the development of beginners of all styles (of course, I may be wrong)
As I suspected this halts at what seem that you only have practiced a bit of Taiji, a bit of Yiquan...and so on internal MA's....As I mentioned before the six directions, this you would have come to understand if you just stayed with for example the Yiquan practice and you would have understand the core and easily recognized it in other IMA's