Yugen wrote:willie wrote:jaime_g wrote:So you dont work on the first movement of every taichi form?
Jamie, I don't think that you realize the scope of the instruction that I received. So I will fill you in just a little bit. There was a brown belt under a National kickboxing champion who I met in MMA, who was also a purple belt. He came back to class telling real stories after getting his ass handed to him over and over and over again by some strange, very secretive, Tai Chi Master. That teacher is my sifu. What you are seeing in those videos is pretty much worthless for fighting. Sure it should be entertained as beginner stuff only.
All these secretive Internal Master's and their fighting abilities.... yet where are they? What's their fight record? Why so secret...
Mention someone like Tim Cartmell, with a verifiable fight record and you hear... "he doesn't move with 6H", "he does basic stuff"
Who are the MMA fighters with records that you Sifu has taught?
As to the video content being worthless for fighting... well of course it is! The purpose is to teach basics of body connection... not to raise your arms with your spindle shoulder muscles, but to use the whole body. To develop a connected body.. A guy training fighting with a connected body will probably do better than one with not... depends on a lot of other factors too. Note, Roy is teaching white belts in that video..
I play with dantian rotation and arm connection to thwart guys trying to sweep me with spider guard... it's effective... of course it's sparring with defined rules, so it's limited in scope..
Hi, the reason why they're secret is because they're greedy. The more people that know the truth of these arts, so less important that they become. Do you like how honest I am? As far as a fighting record? no that guy did not have a fighting record. the guy that taught him was a national champion. My teacher did not train any MMA fighters. Although he did defeat some MMA practitioners, That's different. Where is he now? Well I think he's 71 years old or close to it. Do you want him to jump in the ring or in the octagon? You see I don't go along with all the mainstream BS. And I couldn't care less. A connected body? Do you even understand what that means? Can I see a video of your taichi or internal Arts? I'm getting tired of all the BS here.