Bao wrote:Or even common sparring...
Common sparring ? Wrestling, Kick boxing or a combination of such or a specific Taiji free sparring ?
Bao wrote:Or even common sparring...
Trick wrote:Bao wrote:Or even common sparring...
Common sparring ? Wrestling, Kick boxing or a combination of such or a specific Taiji free sparring ?
MaartenSFS wrote:. I feel that the best approach is to save the "monk" stuff for the latter stages, as it was always intended to be. According to my Master, who travelled around China and met and/or learned from many, many masters, Taijiquan was taught in a similar way to Xingyiquan and Baguazhang. Lots of hard work, sweating, line drills with weights etc. The soft way of doings things leads to nothing but softness. Cotton without the steel..
Bao wrote:Trick wrote:Bao wrote:Or even common sparring...
Common sparring ? Wrestling, Kick boxing or a combination of such or a specific Taiji free sparring ?
"Common" sparring might not be the best description. Most I like sparring using tai chi strategy against non Tai Chi stylists. Or against a tai chi player that just do normal, general sparring. But IME it's hard to find good sparring partners in Tai Chi circles, so it's better to look around and meet people from other styles. Good sparring partners are normally not biased or influenced by qi woo-woo nonsense.
MaartenSFS wrote:I am becoming more interested in self-cultivation.
MaartenSFS wrote:I didn't get a chance to finish my thoughts this morning but I wanted to add that now that I have learned pretty much everything that I wanted to learn and have some years of sparring and fencing under my belt and feel that I am competent enough I am becoming more interested in self-cultivation. Perhaps it's also because I spent so many years at the whim of other people's schedules and now there isn't a constant flow of training partners every day that I am naturally gravitating towards solo training like that. Or perhaps its because I trained so hard for so many years that I feel like training at that intensity now doesn't offer the same benefits now that I have progressed further and diversifying my regimen is the next logical step to further improve. I'm actually considering to add some Qigong like exercises to my curriculum. When I busy preoccupied with learning how to fight I could never bring myself to train it much..
Trick wrote:Now days I’m not really interesting in free-sparring anymore,
Years back I knew some boxers, and sometimes joined in with some old Karate pals...that was basically how as an Taijiquanist I got to do my “regular” sparring.
Bao wrote:Trick wrote:Now days I’m not really interesting in free-sparring anymore,
Me neither. I don't bother about "fighting" or think in those terms nowadays.
johnwang wrote:Bao wrote:Trick wrote:Now days I’m not really interesting in free-sparring anymore,
Me neither. I don't bother about "fighting" or think in those terms nowadays.
I still love sparring. But I don't like to spar with my own students. My main interest in sparring is to obtain a successful clinch in a fist flying environment. Most of the time I don't even care about the finish move. When I can find opportunity to enter and enter successfully, the amount of joy can make me smile in my dream for many nights. In sparring, there are something that I enjoy very much that even money won't be able to buy for me. Through the sparring process, I try to prove whether "anti-striking" is possible or not. I'll need a huge amount of data in order to prove it or dis-prove it.
Trick wrote:MaartenSFS wrote:I didn't get a chance to finish my thoughts this morning but I wanted to add that now that I have learned pretty much everything that I wanted to learn and have some years of sparring and fencing under my belt and feel that I am competent enough I am becoming more interested in self-cultivation. Perhaps it's also because I spent so many years at the whim of other people's schedules and now there isn't a constant flow of training partners every day that I am naturally gravitating towards solo training like that. Or perhaps its because I trained so hard for so many years that I feel like training at that intensity now doesn't offer the same benefits now that I have progressed further and diversifying my regimen is the next logical step to further improve. I'm actually considering to add some Qigong like exercises to my curriculum. When I busy preoccupied with learning how to fight I could never bring myself to train it much..
You studied LiuheXinYiquan & Xingyiquan ? Hold on to the basics from these MA’s and daily polish them, find some friends with who you can practice sparring exercises , that’s all the Qigong you need
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