Trick wrote:Willie hope you not see this as critique on your approach in TJQ I’m just a little intrigued about the info you put our that you bested an Chen-TJQ practitioner of 30 years experience, and some questions just popped up in my curious mind. For example…Was he considering himself to be an MAist/fighter?(I myself have been doing TJQ for almost 30yrs, but not for solely martial purpose and absolutely not for a reason to square off against trained fighters, so I personally don’t see myself as an “Taiji fighter” but more a Taiji hobbyist)...What were the rules of the “fight” just regular push hands or more toward Sanda?…Was there a weight/size difference?…What would you say was the main reason for his loss, no weightlifting or not enough free sparring practice?…Did you feel that he could be bested by an non Taiji practitioner such as an wrestler or even an regular strongman?……if he’s a serious martial art Taijiquan practitioner what is his linage?………as I said nothing about you or your approach toward Taijiquan, just randomly curious.
Appledog wrote:willie wrote:Perhaps you underestimated once again?
Willie you're not the first tai chi person to go down this road and your ignoring people's advice is very foolish. Besides that you seem to be doing a good job at the stuff in and of itself. Your main blind spot here is that because you don't understand the goal of your training you think doing these kinds of exercise will help -- it won't. That is, unless your training has fallen so far away from tai chi now that you aren't really doing tai chi anymore, which I suspect.
willie wrote:I think that perhaps you may want to apologize for those foolish remarks?
Appledog wrote:willie wrote:I think that perhaps you may want to apologize for those foolish remarks?
No, I won't answer for what I did not say. Besides, you don't seem like you want to answer my questions either, so you appear to be at an impasse. I'm just here for the discussions. Arguments like the one I find myself in now bore me.
I'm reading all your posts and there's some interesting info here. If and when you ask me a question which you are ready to have answered I'd be happy to chime in. For example as a long-time forms judge you might find it interesting what I would say about your form. Otherwise good luck with the WHJ stuff, just don't misplace someone like myself with your teacher. I never had any interest or desire to teach you or correct you anything. Just here to share and learn.
willie wrote:Now, if you would like to take the floor, please offer evidence that supports your position, Not assumptions...
Appledog wrote:willie wrote:Now, if you would like to take the floor, please offer evidence that supports your position, Not assumptions...
Sure. First, if your teacher's son plays college football I am not surprised he lifts weights. What's wrong with that? Your teacher's teacher, OTOH, has commented on this subject with respect to Tai Chi (see: http://www.nickgudge.ie/5.c.ii.-intervi ... l-yao.html). My position is that I agree with what Chen Zhenglei said in that interview.
Anyways thank you for bringing up a CFK story. I love to discuss CFK stories!
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