When are people going to get it through their skulls that the 3 Internal arts are for training and developing a body quality and learning to use whole body power. The forms are not like other styles of martial arts that use their forms to try to categorize or hold all the techniques of a martial art.
The internal arts (especially tjq) are more a blend of qigong and martial-esque movements, which results in a form that is neither a qigong or a distinct collection of martial technique.
A fight is a fight. If you see a person fighting and it looks like they’re using
techniques from a tjq form, then that person is probably a shitty fighter, and really shouldn’t be trying to fight anyone, until they go back to the drawing board.
You can’t see the ‘body quality’, as an onlooker, unless you know what you’re looking for. And knowing what to look for comes from developing the quality in your own body.
Practice the CIMA as it’s been passed down, to develop the ‘body quality’ and whole-body power (wbp), but try to add that into your own personal manner of fighting. But ‘meeting/blending’ with the opponent’s attack is always the priority as you can never really dictate what’s happening in a fight and how you will need to move in order to blend. And you can’t truly train blending but hope that the quality and frame you developed will help you to adapt. Some martial techniques can’t really make use of wbp, but you need to figure that out for yourself.
I could go on. But I think I got the point across. Hopefully
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