[QUOTE=YouKnowWho;1112479]What bother me the most is some of the "internal’ discussion only talks about “solo” as if the word “opponent” is not even in their dictionary. If you live in Hermit Peak NM alone by yourself, why do you need to train TCMA for?
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chinese lingo has many meanings especially the old text.
the sentence is actually meant this way
fist has no fixed method,
intention has no fixed intention.
find true intention among no fixed intentions.
you hide them. or you vary them/fighting methods.
at first, you need to learn several methods, and then vary them. such as pi beng zhuan pao heng (Kou yun shen famed xing yi boxer).
the trick is that all start and end with san ti.
you may think I am going to pi from top down, I may actually beng in the mid level.
3 sections of the body.
you only see san ti, you do not know which of the 5 fists. i will be using.
b/c the start and end shape or xing and shadow (yin) may look the same to you.
that just a sentence that described the tactics and strategy of xing yi fists.
of course, you may apply the same to other styles.
my point is that
it is not a solo thinking.
it is very much dependent on your opponent.
there is another old saying, jian zhao chu zhao and jian zhao da zhao.
you see a move, you start your counter
you see a move, you destroy that move.
high level of xing yi, is that you do not see my fist methods, you do not know my intent, I do not show shape or shadow
etc etc.
b/c I vary them, I have no fixed methods. I hide my fist and intents among many and varied fists and intents.
