I do feel the need to answer, so I will, with no ill will aimed towards anyone in particular.
The motivation of my writing was in response to some of the comments involved in the sense that the movements must have a “certain” look.
The breakdown of the movement where it appears “robotic” is so the correct neurokinetics and function can be learned.
To clarify:
Defend: yes.
Educate: yes.
Of course, as you have stated, every person deciding on this path has the right to apply the “tools” to their life and practice as they see fit.
Regardless of that choice this particular discipline’s original Intent is to train a human being for combat and to enhance his or her’s already existing combat abilities or to grant them new ones that they did not possess before.
That is a fact of Chen Taiji Practical Method, not an opinion.
But I digress.
Your training destiny is your own.
This group is doing the work and putting the time in which is the only fact that matters in the end.
Sasuke Asakura
I am the front person in the movie.
I don’t know if this is a good place and time but I want to extend the post you started about “Paper Tigers”
There were a lot of tough fighters in my family. Grandfather, father, uncles always fight and told fights stories.
The walls of my city remember crushing from Nunchuk or just like after family gatherings when they set up beer bottles to cut the necks of Nunchuk.
Most trained Oyama Kyokushin Karate aggressively and were very strong for one hit only.
When I was a child and I didn’t want Karate, I wanted Kung Fu.
My father was laughing at me and stupid trening. Once when he was drunk he smashed my nose, always showing the superiority of Karate over Kung Fu.
Yes, they had broken minds, but it doesn’t matter.
I quickly understood what reality is.
I have had the opportunity to fight on the street more than once and I know that this is a madness.
The street isn’t about style or who’s how good it is.
There are no best. One day you win, me tomorrow. Mood, mental state, slippery hands or floor, a fly in the eye, thousands of variables.
Fighting is only about determination.
If someone catches me crushingly from the larynx, instead of stepping back under the pressure of the hand, we have to go forward and hammer the teeth into the opponent.
But martial arts is a deeper concept and even if we focus only on the combat aspect, training is like forging a weapon from iron in fire.
This weapon must be useful. Everyone likes a different weapon, so many have to try.
I’m training Taiji blindly *only* three years correctly or badly, but keep training.
By trying to learn as much as possible from Master Chen Zhonguh’s lessons, I acquired more tools than I had in Shaolin years.
In the second year in Berlin, the Master said my muscles must disappear.
I stopped strength training and stretching.
The range of motion for my elbows and shoulder has increased.
The grip strength increased. I stopped moving as loosely as before, gaining more stability …
After training with Chen Xu, I discovered the physical meaning of Dantien. I was able to start breaking people by sucking. My core began to get stronger.
I understood the difference between words: tight, soft, strong, loose and stretch.
There was a cool strong guy in Berlin called Fight.
When we met for the first time, I could only stand with him by force. A year later he couldn’t do anything to me, although I was much physically weaker without strength training.
I started having something that stronger colleagues who still practice Shaolin don’t have.
A friend invited me to the class so that I would meet his Master – Shaolin monk.
I was surprised myself when the monk couldn’t put the Qinna on me, so he started hitting.
Even my short adventure with PM Taiji changed my applications and structure.
I have a little more time, feeling like I’m not sacrificing movement.
When I met Master Chen for the first time and he showed me the applications, it fascinated me how he moves.
Not falling people, not type of technics or hiting me with a heavy hammer fist.
But how he move and breake time and dimension.
He broke my rythm. He changed positions and angles, always moving forward into empty space.
Something like borrow from the future. If we know the result of the actions, what will happen to the opponent, we can set a trap.
I was fascinated by freedom in movement. Do what you want and don’t care.
In applications, the opponent always lands in the Practical Method Yilu stance. Incredible.
For me, it is proof that the source of form is experience – not just a mere invention.
A year later, during an open house in Berlin, the Master asked everyone what they wanted to learn. Most said for health etc
For me, it was still this freedom of movement. Trust in a situation.
This is probably the most difficult thing we can learn from him and I don’t believe that such quality comes from soft training.
I know the term of paper tigers very well as vibrating fists.
Every time I had the opportunity to meet someone in the country who criticized PM, I asked him to practically demonstrate his true Taiji.
Suddenly it turned out that the vibrating fists did not work in contact.
They need at least minimal space to generate force, backward and forward movement.
It was even funnier to touch such a fist. Only touch without force. The result was like a electecity power cut.
And I’m talking about the older students of famous Masters. Not relevant.
For me, practical boxing works better than anything else even at a beginner level.
All I have written is just my own thoughts and my point of view.
The martial artist did not judge the training method but the result.
Robot move is one of method.
I sometimes experiment with different speed, strength, and size positions.
I treat the form like a study book.
We must remember that moving like a robot with perfect isolation is not our goal.
There are many dancers who do it perfectly, but their movements have no function and combat ability
PS.
I showed the Master’s movies to my karate and combat uncles. They don’t understand the style but they confirmed the quality.
The best as there are people doing yilu for the first time.
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