Frank: from my experience, usually some of the xingyi guys cross train bagua a bit, but the bagua and taiji guys tend to stay to themselves.
I may be wrong though, since I'm only in MTL a couple months out of every year.
xingyijuan wrote:Frank,
. And there are those who do xingyi and think they are doing taiji (sorry, inside joke)
mixjourneyman wrote:Speaking of taiji attacking, if your ever in Montreal, you totally gotta come down to the school and push hands with him.
I can't lay a finger on him (not surprisingly), or even on his good students.
They have some really nice ph skills there.
kreese wrote:Taijiquan doesn't need to become you, nor do you need to become it. You do need to practice, but if you understand the skill you should be able to turn it on or off. Taijiquan is not a panacea or a religion or a lifestyle. It's a martial art.
Don't listen to that ex-kyokushin hippy in Atlanta
kreese wrote:Dmitri, in some ways we are saying the same thing but the distinction I want to make is that martial art is martial art, and it is just something one does. If our definition of martial art grows to encompass a lifestyle, we are not really speaking about a martial art anymore but a personal Dao. We do learn about the big Dao via the little Dao's we practice in life, but the little Dao is not the big Dao.
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