https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsBdVqrO8ZI
Adam Mizner Prague - Sway with me
Very good skill sets demoed,
looks like a good time for all...
Adam Mizner Prague - Sway with me
wayne hansen wrote:So would I but my actors equity card has expired
cloudz wrote:The music choice is very apt, given in these instances he's training these guys to be his dance partners.
Wouldn't it be novel if we saw more of him training people to defend themselves from realistic and violent attacks?
Heck realistic pushing in these seminars would be nice..
But it means much less money and kudos in the broader tc community - a truly sad testament to where we have ended up.
Ultimately these are low level skills displayed, when all you actually deal with is 'dumb' and helpful force and people more than willing to buy into the woo woo game. In the context of combat; it's a game of delusion - when it becomes (made so by people like Adam) a thing in of itself. He's selling snake oil here Not martial 'Skill'....
He would never get away with this nonsense in a proper match up.. not even in competitive push hands, never mind other more serious formats. I know people that would have him for breakfast in pushing, but he would never go near that, ever.
Call me crazy but I thought tai chi chuan was primarily a martial art?
This is bordering on selling a lie, and that's bad. Anyone with any sense of truth, honesty, integrity and love for the authentic MA of TCC would call it out - not promote it as some panacea of (martial) skill. If this kind of thing is all you are invested in, don't deem to call yourself a martial artist.
It's stepping stone material, this is presented out of any genuine context and done so repeatedly and therefore elevated beyond what it's truly worth - in it's PROPER and RIGHTFUL context.
Despite all that - it's also really boring now; the fact that so many tai chi videos present the same thing over and over and hold it as some 'special sauce'. It's become boring, shallow and an embarrassment to anything resembling or purported to be a system of combat/ self defence.
Master Wang competed regularly in push hands events in Taiwan, with both national and international participants.
He was push hands champion for several years winning international competitions.
However, he felt discouraged because so much physical force and technique was required to defeat an opponent.
He had read the tai chi classics which talked about softness and "four ounces moving a thousand pounds", but this was not evident in tai chi push hands in present use. Only after meeting Grandmaster Huang did he realize that soft power could be achieved. He studied with Huang, when he visited Taiwan and realized he had to give up his prior emphasis on strength and technique.
origami_itto wrote:I mean when the skill gap is that large this is sort of expected, right?
I think some of his methods, if improperly followed, can make the students much more tense and easy to manipulate.
windwalker wrote:wayne hansen wrote:So would I but my actors equity card has expired
You mentioned you liked my friend "peter's" work....
http://taijihawaii.com/pages/bio_evolution15.html
He along with a couple of my students visited me in Taiwan...
My US students born in Taiwan translated
questions to teacher Lin....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JN2ugv8HYs&t=14s
posted as something I find interesting, reflecting my own work...and practice..
It's very consistent with all the teachers and practitioners of this type of work practice and develop the same type of skill sets
demoed in much the same way among all the teachers working with them
Some quite public others not...
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