this may be a little off topic... in a way... but I think it really reflects the problems in TCC...
At the push hands group I attend sometimes.... What I often hear from the 'Gurus' of the group when I am pushing someone else is that what my friend Andrew and I do is not TCC... we happen to think it is, it is just that we have root and substance behind us and use softness and yielding to attack and disrupt the other people... Now the thing is... it is common IME for people who thing they are good at PHs to dismiss 'losing' as being, 'ohh he got me but he wasn't doing TCC pushhands he was unsubtle and brutish'... or some crap along those lines. Part of devloping PHs skillis the willingness to 'invest in lose' this has many meanings but pertaining to this it would be the willingness to find out what went wrong and :' why did some thuggish brute with no TCC skill manage to push ME a great of the TCC world all over the place'
This just shows to me how out of touch many TCC people are, like many arts, they are closeted in their own little world and refuse to play with others... let alone acknowledge that they are having faults shown to them.
anyhow blah blah....
"I've done 19 years of Tae Kwon Do.... I'm a blackbelt third dan.... I don't think I should start with your beginners..." ....phone enquiry I recieved....