GrahamB wrote:Well, I thought I might have been at risk of being controversial in my podcast, but it was nothing compared to one of Ken's old guests.
Have a listen to Alan Pittman after the 45-minute mark. Hold onto your hats!
http://internalfightingarts.audello.com ... n-pittman/
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middleway wrote:I was going to post that video of Mr Pittman ... If that is 'old style' Xing Yi ... i will keep the new style thanks.
The bagua I'm learning now descends from Tibetan vajra practices from what I'm told.
Scott Park Phillips referred to
I found it interesting how he says bagua comes from India which agrees with several teachers I've met through the years.
Trick wrote:The talk about Robert.W.Smith was interesting, but when the two of them(Gullette&Pittman) began chuckling together about Sun Jianyun’s “inabilities” it/they got silly.
Bao wrote:Trick wrote:The talk about Robert.W.Smith was interesting, but when the two of them(Gullette&Pittman) began chuckling together about Sun Jianyun’s “inabilities” it/they got silly.
A bit unecessary.
I’ve only heard good things about her martial skills and abilities. One of the stories a friend told me was that one time when she taught application, a defense against a throw it I remember correctly, she stepped back against him and used fajin with her hip, striking him so hard that he stumbled away and landed on his back. This was just one of many stories. Even if her father was somewhat absent and traveled a lot she was still raised in a martial arts environment and experienced a lot of things around her.
GrahamB wrote:Well, I thought I might have been at risk of being controversial in my podcast, but it was nothing compared to one of Ken's old guests.
Have a listen to Alan Pittman after the 45-minute mark. Hold onto your hats!
http://internalfightingarts.audello.com ... n-pittman/
He veered in and out of things I agree with and disagree with during this podcast, but I think he's right about the dumbing down of martial arts that began with the Kou Shu Nationalists generation (then made worse by the Communists). The problem is that 99% of all Chinese martial artists in the West - which presumably means most of the people on this forum were taught by teachers in these lineages, so it's not going to be a popular opinion, for obvious reasons.
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