AllanF wrote:As a follow on from Tom's thread re Transparent Power and from Chris' (Middleway) thread about dealing with a jab, there is a snippet in the book where Sawaga Yukiyoshi says:
"Everyone is simply practicing the Tai Sabaka in shape only. I've been practicing it, modifying it for real situations...What to do if the person comes at me with fast sharp strikes? Or if he rushes me with multiple strikes? What if he is able to retract his fist after he strikes. I thought about and experimented with how I could use Tai Sababki against these things...You must be able to deal with an opponent no matter how hard or how fast he comes at you using only Tai Sabaki"
For me this is one aspect that is missing from taijiquan, in my experience there is little or no drills to train this in taiji. Even my own teacher admit that if your are against multiple attackers then you MUST keep moving but in taiji we never train this body movement. Even some of the bagua people i have met and experimented with don't move very well (maybe just they were crap) when it came to a more realistic situation.
So do you practice this?
If so how do you do it?
Is this type of training predominently the domain of Japanese Martial arts (aikido, Daito ryu etc.)?
For me this is a key aspect of my training that is missing and thus would be obliged to get any pointers in this regard.
Allan
GrahamB wrote:
I think if you do uncoperative sparring of some kind these questions will just naturally evaporate from your mind
- like tears in the rain.
GrahamB wrote:Then spar 3 or 4 people?
Anyway, isn't the question about learning how to deal with people who are not "hugely telegraphed and overcommitted"?
GrahamB wrote:I tend to think that being attacked by a long stick will help you to learn to evade attacks.... by a long stick.
If you want to avoid quick jabs, then why not have somebody quick jab you until you get the hang of it?
All I'm saying, is that if you want to learn to deal with "attack X" then why not have somebody do "attack X" on you until you learn to deal with it? Am I being crazy or is it really not that complicated?
GrahamB wrote:What happened at 1.06?
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