ain’t nuthin’ soft about gettin hit!
“internal family fist” was a southern martial art that was extinct 500 years ago. tai chi is not related to it.internal boxing is more related to southern kung fu than taijiquan
internal boxing is a long extinct style. taijiquan claimed “internal” only in the 1900s for marketing like wingchun claiming to be from shaolin nun.
taijiquan is just northern longfist done slow by old people with arthritis. nothing mysterious or magical
ah..after watching it again, I had to edit my first post…
im glad a few ppl are trying to make taijiquan work, but almost nobody teaches basic fighting stance and footwork
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Some of the moves, such as single whip are, although somewhat workable, are IMHO, not actually the way it was intended to be applied, as far as my brief experience.. Doing the plam strike with your hook hand simply floating in the air? Why is it a hook hand? Don’t you think that maybe..it’s…um, hooking something?[/QUOTE]
the “single whip” is pretty straight forward: for example, you redirect a right punch w/the right & roll into a hook, then knife edge strike w/the left; if that strike is blocked by the opponent’s left outer arm, you move into “strum lute”, which grabs the wrist of the blocking arm, pulls it down and attacks the upturned elbow; there is also a leg hook / attack component; this can then be used to uproot the opponent if he doesn’t counter the attack to the elbow, or if he does resolve it, you move into a closer range w/“shoulder stroke” to set up a body throw with “white crane flashes wings”; there are, of course, other variations, but that’s one of the more obvious ones;
what makes it “taiji” is the “ging” behind the movements and that you are working into a standing grappling range with the ultimate goal of dumping the guy; at least that’s my perspective
I actually have a video of me doing this and other movements in a self-defense “demo” which I will upload and post a link to when I have a moment
hmmm… do you think that “pay the piper,” came from some Tai-Chi guy’s broken English? “Pay da Pipa!”
hahaha :eek: