GrahamB wrote:This is the problem - who gets to decide what is and isn't fake Tai Chi?
Tai Chi lacks any recognised, accepted or universally adopted method of testing, so it's the wild west. There's no way of fixing this - it is what it is!
Compare and contrast to martial sports - wrestling, MMA, BJJ, Sambo, Sanda, Kickboxing, Muay Thai, etc. All these can be tested and there's therefore no disagreement about what is and isn't legit.
everything wrote:In some ways we should be happy.
Here’s a “technology” that a lot of people can learn very poorly yet still get benefits and teach others to get benefits.
My elderly mom still does a few moves to work on balance.
Falling is a high risk and common scenario for seniors.
Walking is great but even bad tai chi is better in a scientifically quantified way for reducing this very key risk.
Or you are more interested in the neigong aspects.
Or both.
So the learning curve is gentle at first.
The benefits are there on any part of the curve.
More things should be like that.
Besides, we knew people inside the palace got the real skill. As the famous saying goes “Of Luchan’s students, Wanchun (萬春) got his hard fajin, Lingshan (凌山) was adapt as throwing, and Quanyou (全佑) was skilled at neutralization.”
So these were his three best students (besides his sons of course). Wangchun, Lingshan, and Quanyou were Manchurian guards working at Prince Duan’s palace.
. It is at this point that Xue Yusheng thought of Wang Maozhai. Also a senior disciple of Quan You, Wang was not much involved in the business martial art.
Throughout his life he operated a profitable building supply company called Tong Sheng Fu (同盛福) in the center of the city (Don Dan district).
He didn’t need to teach, and worry about any politics associated with it. As predicted, Wang Maozhai had no reservations when he met Yuan Liang, and beat Yuan Liang as he would with anyone else he met.
Of course he did not injury Yuan Liang, but gave Yuan Liang a very clear idea of his skill. Yuan Liang, thoroughly impressed, immediately knelled down.
windwalker wrote:
Wonder if what they did back then would be accepted now as taiji by most people.
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