everything wrote:it might depend in large part on what strawman or wrong or limited understanding someone has of "internal".
if taijiquan is "slow shaolin", I'd have to agree to "just do shuaijiao" not taijiquan.
if it's "fascia this or that", same conclusion.
if it's "structure this or that", same conclusion.
if there is some "energy", as in neijia is related to neigong, this gets much more difficult... but people here lose their shit or immediately have to knock down some strawman, like "someone says teacher with initials a.m. thinks he can defeat prime fedor". but that's a strawman argument, because nobody has ever said that, and nobody ever would. no matter what attribute one got good at, one couldn't defeat him. but once you lose your shit, it's hard to use the logical portion of the brain.
To counter a takedown, it depends on who controls who's arm/arms. It has nothing to do with "internal" or external.
Is there "internal" way to deal with arm drag and external way to deal with arm drag? I don't think so.
The whole body from top to bottom responds whenever it is attacked. The body follows the energy. We are concerned with internal skill and not with the external form. This is the method of training in sparring (note:referring to roll-back,push,elbow-stroke). After it is perfected, one can draw the opponent's energy in, and when it lands on nothing, then unite and issue. In this way, your art will be realized.
origami_itto wrote:So Wu Ch'eng-ch'ing wrote in "Treatise on Boxing" (ref Lost T'ai-ch'i Classics from the Late Ch'ing Dynasty Douglas WIle)The whole body from top to bottom responds whenever it is attacked. The body follows the energy. We are concerned with internal skill and not with the external form. This is the method of training in sparring (note:referring to roll-back,push,elbow-stroke). After it is perfected, one can draw the opponent's energy in, and when it lands on nothing, then unite and issue. In this way, your art will be realized.
marvin8 wrote:Cejudo controls the centerline (peng), draws (yin) Dillashaw's right cross. As Dillashaw throws right cross, Cejudo rolls (lu) and issues (fa) push:
Thompson lures (yin) Masvidal to jab. As Masvidal jabs, Thompson side steps and issues right cross:
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