Ian wrote:May I ask, as respectfully as possible, what the point is of the majority of these applications?
While I realise that they require a high degree of control, I don't understand the point. Same applies for CMC's push hands vids.
Wuyizidi wrote:It may be because Zheng Man Qing was not a professional martial artist, and had no fighting reputation when he was in mainland.
He was a college professor. After escaping to Taiwan with the Nationalist government, he taught Song Mei Ling - wife of Generalissimo Jiang Jieshi (Chang Kai-chek) calligraphy, painting, and Taiji Quan. Song was a very powerful political presence herself. As it happens in life, a lot of people tried to get close to Jiang and Song by studying with Zheng. This is how he became famous in Taiwan. Later on, his fame in the West came from being the first to introduce Taiji Quan here. Again, the reputation is primarily of teaching rather than fighting (compare this to his contemporary Bruce Lee).
This is not to say his Taiji Quan skill is not good. We all know from plenty of examples that skill and fame are two separate things. Just because he became famous for reasons other than fighting does not mean he cannot fight. But 1) his professional background - academic rather than martial art, 2) low profile while on mainland - not known by most professionals, 3) the proliferation of other mainland lineages in the west today, and 4) the image we associate with early western students of Taiji, explain his under-appreciated status today. But one only has to touch with Ben Lo to know he had something real.
Wuyizidi
everything wrote:still, the problem remains wherein a gazillion tai chee hippies not only claim to have learned the art from this line, but are so stupid as to think they are qualified to frigging teach someone something about it. of course that is not confined to zmq, but is a pandemic of the entire tjq world.
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