The knees beyond the toes thing is a combat requirement not a exercise guideline
great, quotable statement.
my dad, brother, kid can/could do one pistol to varying degrees of good form. guess i'm the unathletic one in the family.
The knees beyond the toes thing is a combat requirement not a exercise guideline
is all you need
wayne hansen wrote:I didn’t start training CMA until my 20’s
I had a rugby league players body
When I met my teacher who was a master of pistol squats my body was fully formed so I learnt to do the squats but never like him
Tai chi dosent require any special physical boundaries it is about flexibility of tactics and a body that can apply those tactics
A lightweight boxer is most likely more flexible than a heavyweight but that does not mean he will win in a fight
I think the clips here are great don’t get me wrong
Don’t think they are necessary to do ICMA
Formosa Neijia wrote:I'm really happy with how this thread turned out. Yes, yes all of you were already doing all of this, none of the ATG stuff is useful in anyway, if you were taught the "real secrets" then you wouldn't need any of this, etc., etc., etc.
Please carry on with more of the same.
everything wrote:in an MA forum, many people might have already hit this level of ROM (I'm a million miles away). are there similar "standards" in your art, or personal art or practice? They all make me think of some movie with Shaolin monks doing feats of strength and mobility, or Jean-Claude Van Damme doing the splits across two big rigs in TV ads or something. I don't think I'll get to any of these "standards", but I like the idea of making specific measurable progress toward them. I haven't taken any MA or anything else where the instructors expected/guided us to get to certain mobility levels. probably is in lots of TMA, but I'm not particularly aware that the info out there is as systematic (X% of bodyweight in Y position, joint by joint). I've seen various martial arts and yoga people with this level or better of flexibility, but I need "for dummies" step by step guidance.
Formosa Neijia wrote:ThisMy thinking is what is the point?
has everything to do with thisDon’t think they are necessary to do ICMA
What's the point? There isn't one. Don't do it, It will ruin the "power of cheese." "Alex Dong's qigong set is all you need" blah, blah, blah.
I don't know what DOING IMA even means and I never did. IMA is the best at what it does or I will change/replace it. The various IMAs used to be about getting verifiable, quantifiable, replicable results in health, fitness, and fighting. Now it's all about doing some crappy circle walking with no point to it, doing some crappy taiji form, or making aging boomer hippies take a step. Since those are now the goals, nothing in modern training is needed so please leave it alone. Some people are still trying to perfect the buggy whip in 2023 so you're in good company.
Please go back to quoting sacred texts that no one understands like "Wong Zong Yue said taiji isn't long fist.....so there!" and posting endless forms no one cares about.
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