johnwang wrote:Old CMA said, "If you can do Tantui 10 times daily, heat and cold won't bother you for the rest of your life." A Tantui form contains about 43 moves. 10 times make it 430 moves. IMO, as long as you can move your body with punches and kicks for 430 moves non-stop. It doesn't matter which style that you train, you should be able to get the same benefit.
origami_itto wrote:When you're sick your body temperature can raise to over 100 degrees without any physical exertion.
You don't need to do heavy exercise to heat up.
johnwang wrote:Bao wrote:Tai Chi was my first art, ...
When I was 7, Taiji was my 1st art. I learned from a monk who was my next door neighbor in Taiwan. One day I got into a fight and I didn't know how to use Taij, I lost faith in my 1st Taiji teacher. Until I have met my SC teacher, I then relearn Taiji from him.
When I was 11. my brother-in-law from Liu He system (6 harmony) was my 2nd teacher. he taught me a "Bagua Quan (not Bagua palm)" open hand form and "Pi Shou Gan" pole form. One day I got into a fight again, I still didn't know how to use "Bagua Quan" in fighting. He stopped teaching me any more forms. He asked to to drill "1 step 3 punches" for the next 3 years. That day I started to understand how to train for fighting.
When I was 14, I jointed in the long fist information class offered by my Jian-Guo high school in Taipei, Taiwan. During the 1st day of the class, I walked toward my long fist teacher and asked him, "What will you do if I punch at your face?" I wanted to make sure that I won't just learn MA dancing from him.
During my college (TIT) years in Taiwan, I jointed in the TIT Kung Fu information class again. I continued to learn long fist from GM Han Ching-Tang's son Han Su-Yin. He really liked my form. He said all his students belong to class B. I was the only one belong to class A.
When I was in US, I invited my SC teacher to live in my house. I had learned SC from him for 3 years.
All my life, my goal in learning CMA is for fighting. Style has no meaning to me. As long as it can work in fighting, It's a good style for me.
When someon gets old, old memory is all that person has left.
edededed wrote:Wow, I didn't know that you learned longfist from Han Qingtang's son!
johnwang wrote:edededed wrote:Wow, I didn't know that you learned longfist from Han Qingtang's son!
He only had a small class in TIT (Taipei Institute of Technology). I assume college students are not as serious about CMA than high school students are. I didn't like him that much. He said, "I know everthing that your teacher Li knows. But I know something that he dosen't know". He taught me a 2 men form "扑按对打" that I didn't learn from my high school long fist teacher Li. He just helped me to polish my long fist forms that I had learned from high school.
gerard wrote:Too much emphasis on kicks and all that shit when the real focus should be on:
I'm working hard on myself aiming at releasing all internal blockages.
I useful answer given here by Jason Rich:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-adva ... rtial-arts
As a Ba Gua practitioner this is an endless journey. I fight for and with myself 24/7.
everything wrote:or have someone study these, esp from a young age...
would you most likely start with xingyiquan (seemingly the most "simple")?
then would you continue with taijiquan or baguazhang?
why?
Zhang told Hu to practice only taijiquan, but Hu was not really able to let go of his xingyi.
He was already a great master, and thus it was very difficult to "throw it out the window".
Zhang kept telling Hu that his jin (internal energy) was wrong -
it was a xingyi type, not a taiji type of energy. Hu said that there was nothing he could do because he had been practicing that way for so long. Zhang decided to teach Hu the 81-Step form of taijiquan, realizing that unless Hu was able to let go of his xingyi it would be quite difficult to teach him Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan.
gerard wrote:Too much emphasis on kicks and all that shit ...
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