your favourite (taiji) application/ technique clips ?

[wayne hansen]

The partner is just a fall guy

[Giles]

just watching some more of that last guy, he's big and impressively powerful.. skilled application as well. Bet his partners are crying our for some soft mats! sheesh.

Hard wooden boards to be thrown down onto? Luxury!! When we folks were young tai chi students, our master used to dislocate our arms with black-hand throws, rupture our spleens, knock us unconscious and hurl us onto jagged rocks covered in broken glass and scorpions. For hours on end! And you know what? We were pathetically grateful!!

[BruceP]

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[BruceP]

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[Bao]

Bet his partners are crying our for some soft mats! sheesh.

Oh, you liked it, didn't you?

Here's more of it....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_demToAm0SU

[zrm]

I always felt sorry for the student in this push hands vid

[denchen]

Good clip of technique overcomimg size difference against active resistance

https://youtu.be/JiemyDIPTDg

[zrm]

Chen Ziqiang is mainly push hands but applicable.

[zrm]

I always like Syfo Lees interpretation of the Taiji striking because its similar to how we do it.

[cloudz]

The partner is just a fall guy

but dude, everyones a 'fall guy' in compliant technique training.
the same training in ALL martial arts.

do you think bjj, Judo or wrestlers learn and drill techniques only when someone is trying to stuff it or fightback.

Context.

when people post competition or peers tai chi grappling, you get (edit.) another kind of complaint, someone posts this kind of technique work, you get this kind of complaint..

I mean is it just the grumpiness of your age Wayne ?

[cloudz]

Oh, you liked it, didn't you?

Must be THE POWAH !!!

[cloudz]

Here's more of it....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_demToAm0SU

oh... the mans a bad boy

half makes me wish I was still 25+ kg heavier

[BruceP]

Fixed

I've only ever had my training partners practice 9 Temple qigong for their first year in developing tjq body and fighting method as it's all one really needs for applying tjq's ideas in a practical/functional manner.

Here's one of my training partners with nine months of training (blue gloves) in his first MMA match demonstrating Corn Grinding, Mirror Polishing, Advance-Retreat, Prayer Wheel, etc against a Team Quest guy (red gloves) who had 4 years of collegiate wrestling in addition to the training he he'd done with Randy Couture. The match went to decision after 3 five-minute rounds of non-stop this:

https://www.veed.io/view/0b61980a-b6b9- ... d3608203c6

[cloudz]

thanks for the share Bruce, your guy fought hard, that was pretty intense.
kudos to him for getting in there.

[BruceP]

not on topic