Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby marvin8 on Wed May 03, 2017 1:50 pm

To give a more complete picture, from cursory reading, Xu Xiaodong is only exposing those CMA that he believes are frauds. One of them being Chen Village Tai Chi. (I don’t have an opinion on this.)

Guan Nan Wang, who is helping translate, believes the same. However, Guan says there are true masters of CMA. One of them being Master Chong DeShun. Some may enjoy reading, One of the Best Tongbei Masters in All of Beijing,
https://www.facebook.com/triessencemart ... 4357170710,
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Tri-Essence Martial Art, December 12, 2016 wrote:My encounter with one of the best Tongbei masters in all of Beijing part 1

Before I start with the main event, allow me to bring up some background info first. I trained with a Baiyuan Tongbei teacher between 2003 and 2008, who was very good and largely considered one of the best Baiyuan Tongbei fighters in Beijing. For those that isn't familiar with the scene, Beijing is like the heart of Tongbei, there are probably more Tongbei masters in Beijing than the rest of China, so being considered one of the best representative of Baiyuan system in Beijing is quite an accomplishment to say the least, he also teaches in Europe regularly and almost everyone who met him praises his high level of skill.

I lost contact with my Baiyuan teacher after 2008 and when I visited Beijing again in 2014, I heard from 2 sources that my Baiyuan teacher has left Baiyuan Tongbei and joined under Wuxing Tongbei. Now this is quite a shocking news, especially for someone who is in their 50s and already established fame and reputation, normally won't just quite and join another lineage, this kind of action is almost unheard of, and has left the whole Baiyuan system very upset. When I dug further as to the reason for this turn of event, I was told that he lost in a dual to a Wuxing Tongbei master. Now winning and losing is a big deal for sure, but its also something quite common for any fighter with enough fights under his belt, so if it was just as simple as losing a dual, I doubt my Tongbei teacher would leave the system he has been under for over 30 years and join another at the age of 50 something. I thought to myself that the dual must have been so one sided that it shocked his entire view and understanding on training Tongbei, that would be the only reason why he would join another lineage altogether.

I was very curious just what kind of level this Wuxing Tongbei master must be on, in order to totally break my Tongbei teachers confidence and understanding completely, but was not able to inquire further on the matter until this year. It has been 2 years since I last heard about the incident, and my mind has already moved on to other things when I visited Beijing this year in Sept, but fate is a funny thing and coincident comes at the least expecting time.

One fine autumn afternoon I was doing my Taichi training in front of the lake at the famous Purple Bamboo Park, when my senior Taichi brother Zhang Wei came by to train with me. While we were chatting, he mentioned that his friend has invited a taoist from Wudang to teach in Beijing and if I was interested in touching hands, those who knows me knows that I never pass on such opportunity,so I happily agreed to check it out. His friend runs a tea house in the park itself, and the Wudang guy was there too, so after 5 min of walking we arrived at the tea house and got talking.

The Wudang guy was a little arrogant which is exactly what I was expecting, especially after my Shixiong said that we only focus on training stance and nothing else. He started bragging on and on about this gongfa, that training, 20 different forms and secret qigong. At some point my Shixiong suggested that he can do some push hand or sparring with me, and the Wudang guy refused. When I saw this, I suggested to do some push hand with my Shixiong, just to give the Wudang guy a rough idea of what we do, once he see its harmless maybe he would agree to try out against me. However soon as we started doing free push hand, the Wudang guy got up and went into the tea house. My Shixiong's friend's face felt a little underwhelming, in order to save face she offered to take us to an "interesting person", she said that person will never refuse to touch hand with anyone. We all agreed and drove out to the far north western side of Beijing.

Tri-Essence Martial Art, December 12, 2016 wrote:My encounter with one of the best Tongbei masters in all of Beijing part 2

When we got to the place it was already dinner time, so we picked up this "interesting person" from his house and went to a hotpot place together. Upon first meeting with this person, he was quite tall but looked ordinary and nice, in his 50s, not built and doesn't look like a martial art master. He was very friendly too and down to earth, doesn't command respect or carry himself as if he is the biggest deal all around Beijing, which is sadly something that is quite commonly found among masters today. So during my first impression, I was not intimidated by him at all and was confident to touch hand with him after dinner, his name is master Chong Deshun.

Once we all sat down and finished ordering food, we started chatting, and he asked me what system I've trained in. Knowing he is a Tongbei master I mentioned Tongbei first. Naturally he asked me who I learnt from, so I said initially I learnt from my father, later on I studied under Zhang Laoshi. Soon as I mentioned that he started laughing and saying what a coincident, because he knows Zhang Laoshi very well. I then asked how did he know of Zhang Laoshi, and he said back in 2009 Zhang Laoshi challenged him to a dual and lost, Zhang Laoshi was so impressed with him that he wanted to take him as his new master. Master Chong refused because they are of similar age, and instead introduced Zhang Laoshi to his eldest Shixiong who is around 75, this way it wouldn't look too bad on Zhang Laoshi's face, this kind of thinking use to be very important among martial art circle back in the days, its part of the good old tradition.

Once I heard this, I realized this is the very person I was curious about 2 years ago, and I was very happy that I finally got to meet him. Through out dinner we chatted a lot, mainly us hearing him telling about his stories and experience, from what was told, he has fought a lot of masters from all kind of systems. At the end he said don just trust all my stories, I could be lying for all you know, all of you are welcome to try it out with me, I boasted so much and I have to pay for all that, so whatever I've said I've done that you doubts, you can challenge me on that. With that we concluded our dinner and moved back to his place.

Once we got back to his room, we all know what is to come next, ofc at the time I already realized that he is way beyond my reach, but I still wanted to experience just exactly what he can do. So what followed wasn't exactly touching hand or sparring, because he totally out classed me by miles, so its was more like him playing around with a kid and showing me what he can do.

First of all, his speed is blinding fast, which isn't something special if you familiar with Tongbei, and I've meet many Tongbei guys who are fast, myself isn't too slow either, so pure speed never impress me. However within that blinding speed, he also has an unnatural kind of power, every time our arms touch, his arm just feels so heavy that my arm flies away in an instant. Keep in mind that I've done years of Tongbei, and even longer years of Yiquan, which is famous for structural power, in other word my arms usually does not just fly away upon contact, usually when I touch others, its them who lose structure and balance, but in this case I was completely helpless, soon as our arms touch, mine flies off and he touches me at that very same moment, whether its my face, my ribs or any other weak spot, I would not stop him from placing his hand on my weak spot at all, if we were to go at it for real I'd lose in one move, and that wouldn't even been the full extend of his skill because my previous Tongbei teacher lost in one move too, and he was way better than I am.

For those of you familiar with Yiquan and the likes, you would know that Yiquan focus on structural power and the destruction of other's structure, soon as you use force against them, your whole balance is gone and you lose control of your own body. This master Chong feels same at the moment of contact, but the difference being that he doesn't hold structure before the fight like Yiquan ppl like to do, his power only appears upon contact and soon as I'm affected, that power goes away and he has already finished his next move. He called this 5 element changing power.

For example, he start with a shuai zhang which is a back hand strike to my face, the most common Tongbei opening move, soon as I block it, he will turn his palm and pull my arm down, but not just any pull, my whole body would be uprooted by his pull and standing on my toes, at that same very moment his other hand would have already been placed on my face via pai zhang. And his first hand would have changed into zhong quan and placed on my rib, this whole thing will happen in an instance and finished before anyone noticed.

The other impressive thing he showed was the type of damage he could do by just hitting my arm. Lets say I throw a punch at him and he intercept that punch by launching his arm at my arm, during this contact he can achieve various different results with the same move. First of all he could strike my arm and cause searing pain that goes into my bone marrow, the kind of pain that prevent me from concentrating or lifting that arm for a while. He could do the exact same move and cause a shocking feeling that causes numbness from my whole arm all the way up to my neck and head, I would suffer from headache for a little while, my head would also bow forward uncontrolably into his other hand. He can once again do the same strike to my arm and cause my heart to race so bad that I feel nauseous and wanting to throw up. This kind of changing of power and results is something that I have never seen in any other Tongbei lineage. It really reshaped my understanding to Tongbei altogether, my feeling at the time was no difference from my pervious Tongbei teacher, its like I said to myself damn I've been doing this wrong for like 20 years, what a waste of time.

Due to the incident 2 years ago where a 3rd generation Yiquan master tapped my rib and left me in severe pain for a full month, I did not ask to experience master Chong's punching power on my body, but I do not doubt it would be just as impressive as his effect on my arm if not more. He was very precise and nice, did not hurt me at all other than when showing the various effects of hitting my arm, and even then he controlled his power well enough that the discomfort went away after a little while. Like my good friend Rene pointed out weeks later after hearing my encounter, master Chong has been through so much fights that he is in perfect control of the situation, and did not need to hurt me at all, even when I was doing random stuff, unlike some other masters which will try to hurt you soon as things go random and they feel they lost control of the situation. So needless to say I was extremely impressed with master Chong and sadly not many people especially in the west know about masters like these, one visit and all doubt about whether or TCMA can fight goes out of the window forever, and he does not use any sanda or boxing moves at all, everything he uses are pure traditional Tongbei moves. Other than learning from my Taichi master for 3 month, this encounter is by far the most eventful experience I've had during my visit to Beijing 2016.

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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby Trip on Wed May 03, 2017 4:23 pm

middleway wrote:With a statement of Chen Villages disinterest in the fighting utility of the art, where does that leave those who are training it for that purpose? Pretty much the top man just told you that the art isnt about that anymore and thats history ...
You know the first thing I do when I'm looking for milk?
I don't go to stores that advertise that they don't sell milk.

Exactely. ;)

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I might be reading you wrong, but your implication seems to say because this one store doesn’t sell milk then no store sells milk.

I.e., because this guy lost & Village doesn’t focus on fighting then
Taiji can’t be used to fight.

But, that has not been proven because there is no Taiji in the video.
Even though there was several opportunities where he could have attempted to use Taiji,

It’s not like he threw strike Parry Punch and it was ineffective.
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby Strange on Wed May 03, 2017 8:20 pm

Tongbei is a great and beautiful art
but in this case, i hold a different opinion, cos...

will someone kindly introduce Xu to a XYLH exponent?
i am very sure his hard-charging style will be most suitable
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby C.J.W. on Wed May 03, 2017 8:57 pm

Call me an evil bastard, but part of me is actually rooting for this MMA guy.

(Oh....what I wouldn't give to see big names like Wang Xian's sons, Chen Bing, and Chen Zhiqiang getting knocked off their pedestals by a hook in the face!)
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby GrahamB on Thu May 04, 2017 1:38 am

Just released by the Chinese Wushu Association in response to Madman Xu. Translation:
Chinese Wushu Association sends this note to all provincial, local/municipal associations, saying such fights are against Martial Virtue, against the law, and hence firmly opposes them. Then there is blur about how it want CMA to develop in a healthy manner, and will soon release guide lines to stop this "chaos", and normalize it. All localChinese Wushu Associations should take up measures to put an end to such events in the future.


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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby taiwandeutscher on Thu May 04, 2017 2:34 am

Yes, the Wushu Ass. just did dig the grave of TCMA a bit deeper.
All those TJQ fraudsters, especially those who need to employ sanda trainers to pep up their unable guys, and all those staged TV shows in China, with TJQ against this and that, all those just make me vomit!
Clearly, they need a guy like Xu, but I fear the Ass. will destroy him, he should leave China as soon as he can.
And by the way, on FB, there is also a report now, that the hercules, the strong man, who played around with CXW, also had a comming out, testifying that all was set up and a total fake, with CXW needing to rest for a hr. after pushing just a few secs.
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby Trip on Thu May 04, 2017 2:49 am

GrahamB wrote:
Just released by the Chinese Wushu Association in response to Madman Xu. Translation:
Chinese Wushu Association sends this note to all provincial, local/municipal associations, saying such fights are against Martial Virtue, against the law, and hence firmly opposes them. Then there is blur about how it want CMA to develop in a healthy manner, and will soon release guide lines to stop this "chaos", and normalize it. All localChinese Wushu Associations should take up measures to put an end to such events in the future.


It’s their association, but if this is true…That’s lame.

They don’t have to fight; but they should.

Plus at this particular time they are missing out on a great opportunity to showcase what they can do.
Xu has drummed up some pretty good interest. Even from people who don’t go in for this type of thing. All they have to do is fight this one guy.
Put on one good show and then say, "That’s it folks."
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby middleway on Thu May 04, 2017 2:51 am

I might be reading you wrong, but your implication seems to say because this one store doesn’t sell milk then no store sells milk.


Yes you were. I specifically said the 'Chen Village Art'. I have met people who I am completely convinced can use Tai Chi for fighting.

But, that has not been proven because there is no Taiji in the video.


There is the result of his tai chi training in the video. Tai chi is not a 'Thing'. It is a training method that is only alive within the individuals practicing it, the results of him praciting this training method are present in the video ... so tai chi (his training) is present in the video.

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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby cloudz on Thu May 04, 2017 2:54 am

taiwandeutscher wrote:All those TJQ fraudsters, especially those who need to employ sanda trainers to pep up their unable guys, and all those staged TV shows in China, with TJQ against this and that, all those just make me vomit!
Clearly, they need a guy like Xu, but I fear the Ass. will destroy him, he should leave China as soon as he can.
And by the way, on FB, there is also a report now, that the hercules, the strong man, who played around with CXW, also had a comming out, testifying that all was set up and a total fake, with CXW needing to rest for a hr. after pushing just a few secs.


Posts like these just make me think this is really a great thing if this was allowed to progress unabated. The truth is TCMA has been wholly unable to produce one fighter that can prove the worth of TCMA training against well trained Sanda, MMA, Vale tudo, NHB, K1, Wrestling and so on - conforming to any of those venues.

Hopefully he'll rock up in Taiwan and embarrass a few of your lot.

If they need any kind of outside trainers it's to improve for some venue or other, and you can only do that by learning "the game" and what you can expect to face first, knowing what you are up against. And if it wasn't for the smoke and mirrors and irrational beliefs in TCMA it wouldn't be such an issue.

Take a simple thing like padwork; there's nothing in the world that I've experienced that improves your striking level like padwork for example. Is that "Sanda"?
No, and neither is it traditional. These CMA "fighters" you think are great have probably never done much padwork if at all; I think neither you or they have a clue how much better a fighting level could be if done regularly as well as sparring with boxing gloves etc. Obviously there are those who do appreciate things like that and are open to it..

With traditional stuff it's the integration side that needs to be taken care of carefully. Sport and traditional can integrate just fine, it's the people that want to resist that for whatever reason that will find any amount of nonsense to convince themselves what a terrible idea it is..
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby Trip on Thu May 04, 2017 2:58 am

middleway wrote:
I might be reading you wrong, but your implication seems to say because this one store doesn’t sell milk then no store sells milk.


Yes you were. I specifically said the 'Chen Village Art'. I have met people who I am completely convinced can use Tai Chi for fighting.

Understood!
Thanks for the clarity. :)

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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby Ian on Thu May 04, 2017 3:27 am

Taiji guy's post-fight interview is maximum shameful :D

Full of "neijia strikes penetrate" and "too deadly" and "I could be in jail now". :D
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby cloudz on Thu May 04, 2017 3:47 am

Ian wrote:Taiji guy's post-fight interview is maximum shameful :D

Full of "neijia strikes penetrate" and "too deadly" and "I could be in jail now". :D


oh that's surprising :-X
but he'd have to actually throw something first.
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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby RobP3 on Thu May 04, 2017 4:14 am

Ian wrote:Taiji guy's post-fight interview is maxim[url][/url]um shameful :D

Full of "neijia strikes penetrate" and "too deadly" and "I could be in jail now". :D


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Re: Taiji teacher KO'ed by MMA

Postby GrahamB on Thu May 04, 2017 4:43 am

Somebody made the analogy that it's like a WW1 soldier trying to fight a modern day soldier. Things have moved on....

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