I like these responses. Nice pearls of wisdom.
johnwang wrote:This is why GM Chang said, "Let's Taiji be Taiji and let SC be SC. If you try to integrate both, you will make Taiji people unhappy."
In another forum I suggest to integrate Taiji PH with WC sticky hand. My suggestion make many WC guys unhappy.
I don't think happiness of pure styles matters but the problem of mixing too early does. Learning to yield is not possible if a student always rushes up to grab. But it is sensible to learn one, then the other and then have choices.
After all didn't the bagua, tc and xy guys get together to exchange and learn on many occasions. Isn't mastery of 3 internals a quote around knowing the big 3. Isn't China's many flavours of arts based on the history of exchanging, testing and learning to also create new styles (at least prior to communist chinas near eradication of CMAs).