dragonprawn wrote:Hi JW,
How's it going?
Your combo question makes me think back to the seminar I once took with you where you showed us "tai chi fishing". This involved two "feints", a backfist one which is blocked, followed by pulling the blocking arm, to set up a leg sweep (splitting?) takedown. But you can probably explain it better than me (or you might have a video?).
And a general question for the board, do such entries really count as combos, or do the components of a combo have to be all offensive, and not used as tricks?
I try to replace my 3 miles running by walking with kicks/punches. Yesterday I did 4 mile walking with 2,000 punches and 100 kicks. I felt great about it (I consider it as one of my resting days).
Here is an example to show why combo (set up) is needed.
If you can pull your opponent's back arm and sweep his leading arm at the same time, you can take your opponent down effortless. To find a chance to sweep your opponent's leading leg is easy. To find a chance to pull his back arm is difficult (because your opponent's back arm is blocked by his leading arm and far away from you).
You can wait for that opportunity to happen (such as to wait for your opponent to throw a cross). but it may never happen, or it may happen so fast that you won't be able to take advantage on it. So you try to create opportunity to make that happen.
What Brendan did was just a simple Taiji "double pulling". You pull
- your opponent's leading arm to your right, when your opponent counter with a back arm,
- you pull his back arm to your left.