post a video of you learning your martial art

[bruce]

hi ya'all,

if interested post a video of you in the learning process.

a video ya'all can laugh at and mock since i pretty much suck at what i am showing...

here is a clip of me learnig the gao bagua dragon mother palm.
when the clip was made i had only done a few reps... much to work on. i thought i would post another one in several months to see the progress.

[C.J.Wang]

Who's your teacher by the way?

[bruce]

dave jones

[Lincoln]

Here is a short one of me doing change in four postures. It is over a year old but I just found it, so here it is. I get interupted by my phone at the end. You can tell by my annoyed tone when I answer that it is Shawn Segler calling. LOL! It is not a very good clip but I thought that it was funny.

http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd195/Lincoln94117/?action=view&current=MOV00111.flv

[ashe]

shot this to address some of the accusations that i've been hearing lately that ILC power is stiff and muscular.

not exactly "training" but close enough...



from my video description

have my partner put their feet behind their hips and do push ups so that it should be obvious that they are A) applying force on me and b) not in a stiff and rigid way and just show that from here I can be relaxed so that I can change yet still support my partners weight (i.e. channel their force down to the ground, which in ILC terms we call "absorb and project").

great topic BTW, been too long since members shared clips of themselves regularly!

[NoSword]

shot this to address some of the accusations that i've been hearing lately that ILC power is stiff and muscular.

who the hell is saying that? sounds like a bunch of BS if you ask me.

[mixjourneyman]

Bruce, its rad that you are learning Gao style. Since you work really hard I bet you will be good at it in no time flat!
Props for posting the vid

[shawnsegler]

Here is a short one of me doing change in four postures. It is over a year old but I just found it, so here it is. I get interupted by my phone at the end. You can tell by my annoyed tone when I answer that it is Shawn Segler calling. LOL! It is not a very good clip but I thought that it was funny.

http://s220.photobucket.com/albums/dd195/Lincoln94117/?action=view&current=MOV00111.flv

Tee hee hee....Lincoln is my teacher.....tee hee hee

[GrahamB]

shot this to address some of the accusations that i've been hearing lately that ILC power is stiff and muscular.

not exactly "training" but close enough...

I can see what you're doing Ashe, and it's a good video, but it would be better if you did it the other way around- with you doing push ups on him, because you are bigger than him. Mass makes a big difference doing a demo like that. It's a lot easier to do when the person pushing on you has less mass than you do.

[ashe]

I can see what you're doing Ashe, and it's a good video, but it would be better if you did it the other way around- with you doing push ups on him, because you are bigger than him. Mass makes a big difference doing a demo like that. It's a lot easier to do when the person pushing on you has less mass than you do.

i'm not that much bigger than him. but anyway, i'm going to try and shoot another one tomorrow of me doing this same thing with a kid who's about 6' 3" and 300lbs.