Interloper wrote:I am observing more and more that training in the internal body skills -first- and making them second nature, makes a person more adaptible and able to flow between external expressions (styles). Then it becomes a matter of picking and choosing what one would ilke to do with one's body: kick, strike and punch? Lock, throw and choke-out? Grappling on the ground? Take the MMA approach and select the combinations of combat one deems most useful, and infuse them with internal power. Then you can play with any style if you want; more likely, though, that you will find your body taking on a style of its own, according to its physical abilities, size and shape coupled with internal skills.
applies only to the "end result", as the training progressions of different arts are extremely different. The only one thing they (arts as a whole, including the respective curriculums/types of training) all seem to have in common, IME, is the underlying "mind leads body" idea... But regardless of that, IMHO mixing such strongly differing training progressions as, say, TJQ and XYQ from the very beginning, i.e. too early in the game, can impede one's progress in his/her IMA development.TaoBoxer wrote:Luo De Xiu says 80% of TJ/XY/BG is the same, and the other 20% is Tactics.
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