by Bao on Thu Oct 30, 2008 3:11 pm
Interesting indeed . . .Five or more years to focus on hard force . . . Well, I guess not everyone teach this approach.
Do you think it is easy to go from hard force to a softer one?
For instance, if your main focus is taijiquan, then a completely external approach is very hard to comprehend. If you have this approach to XY, how can you combine taijiquan and xingyi? Taijiquan starts from emptiness, balance and relaxation to develop a very refined and sensitive body awareness. I guess it is somewhat understandable that you must make a choice if you want to combine these arts. Some people might care more to develop hard force first, even regarding their offensive approach in TJQ. And some people with a softer approach might skip much of the ming jing practice of Xingyiquan. Either way, you might turn one of the styles into something that it should not be, or does not need to be.
Also, if you learn a very hard kind of force first, do you think that it is easy to re-learn a softer force? If you allready know how to bash someone's brain out with hard force, why would you even care to switch to another shenfa, or refine your shenfa? What's the point?
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