snowpanda wrote:
Whatever you think of Mizner, this is what he had to say about Doc. I found it in 30 seconds on Google. Maybe you don't rate Mizner's opinion, or you think he's lying... stranger things have happened.
I'll add a little to his claim that Doc is "fast and agile". I suppose he was in his late 50s at the time, but once after training he needed to get somewhere and took off running - ok to him it was jogging level effort, but his stride was a sprint for most people. I ran long distance so I know what good technique looks like, and what speed is, and what efforts different speeds require. I will just say that he was floating at a speed and effort level that I guarantee you will never see from anyone but elite runners. That doesn't come from a lifetime of jogging or fake training. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
So Gary can run good. Awesome
The point of calling him on his disparaging remarks was summed up in the questions I asked originally. Don't know if they show up on your screen or not so here they are again:
If the "pathetic loser" in the OP was an RSFer, would you post up the same opinion as what you wrote above?
Care to share your opinion of what we're seeing in the push hands video?
Instead of just saying that he can't be bothered with showing his work, and answering my other questions, he spent almost 12 hours writing and editing a reply that I watched evolve, and change course on different issues, during that time.
So what I was pointing to is the disparity of etiquette shown in RSFers' commentaries on videos that get posted by RSFers when the person in the video is an RSFer as opposed to when the person in the video isn't an RSFer. My questions to Gary were kind of rhetorical because my time spent here has me already knowing the answer.
Take the push hands video I reposted in this thread showing the gimp and the other fellow, for example. Among all the tai chi people who claim to be teaching tai chi, what's shown in that video is in a three-way tie for the worst tai chi teacher's push hands I've ever seen. I could comment on that video using word-for-word what Gary wrote about the guy in the OP's video and replace "master" with teacher, and then what? It's OK to comment on peoples' lack of skills/abilities in whatever disparaging way one pleases when the person being scrutinized isn't an RSFer...cool. But if the same disparaging commentary is posted about an RSFer's video, well, that's considered extremely rude. I could never figure that out and have raised that point in other threads here in the past.
At any rate, I've never put much stock in videos people show of their work insofar as what they're able to apply in the testing of their tjq in full-contact formats because that is their moment and their method. Whether they show well or not, I respect the work - because I've been there and done that.