johnwang wrote:Black cat or whit cat, if it can
- catch rat, it's good cat.
- not catch rat, it's bad cat.
After this many years, we should accept that the Taiji combat training was long gone.
If that is true then TCMA is the perfect example of a bad cat.
The combat training is long gone.
I can show you examples of TCC being used in grappling formats with leg skill. I can and have shown you taiji guy mopping up a Chinese wrestler - remember that ?
I can show you taiji guys fighting in Sanda style comps. A practitioner from the UK has already been referenced on this thread who went into MMA training in TCC. That's coming from a small percentage of a larger community that tends to look down its nose at its own fighters - what there are left of them. Or doesn't even take that side of the art in the way you would expect in what an average person calls a martial art.
But that brigade that looks down at combat sport as "just this or that generic fighting xyz" is rampant across Chinese styles not just Taiji.
I can show you as much from Taiji people than any average single TCMA style out there. There are others too, but to in any way suggest or think that there is more quality and or quantity across TCMA as a whole is laughable. That should be made clear I think if you're going to sit there and repeatedly single out taiji in that respect. It really shows that your narrative is little more than someone blinkered who only sees what they want to see. I think the reality is that Taiji simply reflects as accurately as any mumber of Chinese style the state of combat in TCMA. Simple as that.
Sorry to break it to you but all your beloved Kung Fu/ TCMA or whatever you want to call it has been a pile of broken shit (a "bad cat") for a very long time.
It has taken the rise of Sanda to gain any kind of respectability combat wise. The whole kung fu style culture belongs in antiquity where combat is concerned; and you share so much of that culture it's absurd and embarressing you even say some of the things you do frankly.