I have made a few new clips, and tried to slow down and make everything a bit larger frame so you can tell whats happening. Also I took a lesson from Pattersons site, and went step by step on how the techniques are done. If anyone has a cable/dsl/T1 line I would appreciate any input (bad or good) on these instructional clips. The other clips are done at medium speed, and of course light contact just to demo the movement. So the rest of you with 56K can download those easily. Fa-jing clip #2 and #4 are short, they are techniques based on Erle Montaigues “fa-jing chuans” (explosive energy fists) I simply changed it by adding a neck shot and a “wrap the moon” technique at the end along with breaking the collor bone instead of striking down into it at St 11.
Please be constructive, as my ego is terribly fragile and I might just cry if your mean…
thanks
Gary
“Of course thats just my opinion, I could be wrong”-Dennis Miller
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Thanks Dadalus and Joe…
Im also working on the pressure point charts for the 12 main meridians, I have all the charts up, but Im working brief descriptions. If anyone finds these usefull, or could help me make them more usefull Id appreciate any advice..
Gary
nice clips, have you ever thought of learning more tai ji under another teacher apart from earle montague ??? I dont like being rude im just wondering , obviously if you post up video clips you will get people who judge them.
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i think that it’s allot better that you are using that big black dude instead of a little fat kid that didn’t even try half assed to do a throw properly before you knocked him down.
he looks like he could hurt me . .. and you . . but i could be wrong about the latter.
i think these clips are a step up from what you had up before (not that i could do better but i don’t have any up to be made fun of) in that they are more informative in what you are doing and show what is actually taking place with the movements. but what sharkey said has some merrit. some of the techniques looked like they had too many movements to be pulled out of your ass when a guy like that is really coming at you. they also look like they would take too long to perform, but remembering how fast you were in some of your previous clips that could probably be accomodated. i think you shoudl show off your speed more in these clips, just to show off a little, and to let us see how the same techniques you broke down would look at full speed. you could do it fast at the end of your clip or even have a seperate clip of the same technique all out.
i used to be skinny !!Then i found out that when i do internal correctly and weight train even once every 2 weeks i put on a hell of a lot of muscle for that 1 ever 2 weeks.
So now im just skinny with a bit of muscle
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Wong - What specifically did you find lacking that made you remark about Erle’s teaching in such a fashion?
GDA - One of the things to note about the techniques he’s showing is how the side-to-side motion of the waist causing each movement to “load” the next movement. If you watch him demonstrate the fundamental movement practice alone, you can see how fast he can do the movements. In actual application, that’s how it’s done, the whole bang-bang-bang happens in an instant - and you just kind of smash everything that you touch. He alluded to this briefly in the clip where he showed that the second -bang- would just as naturally parry/control an incoming attack as it would be an attack itself.
braden i dont like doing this , but its not anything wrong with gary , its that gary could do so much better learning real tai ji. The techniques are fine , one of them had a little bit of a tai ji antithesis where his beginning fighting stance had a very bent elbow, but jeez man thats nothing. ITs just that erle knows his theory really really well but his taiji sucks.
I always wondered about him, until i saw his fajing demo’s and they arent fa jing.The same way that gary’s movements arent fa jing.
Im not saying i can do it 100% right and soo much better,i cant.
its just that its a shame to have someone who is so dedicated , stay with something that is really off the real method.
generally fa jing in tai ji is expressed by chan si jing coiling energy, the way the waist coils and supplies the power out to the shoulder or elbow.
In hsing yi it is a straight explosion. But when it explodes it really does, erle has a wonderful method of describing this , but he cant do it , it might have power but its not tai ji.
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They’re both wondering where the fu(k all of those tomahawks are coming from. - donated by mojo
There’s nothing wrong with honest criticism. It should happen more often. It helps keep people, well… honest.
What don’t you like about Erle’s fajing? Just that you can’t see the coiling? What first caught my eye about Erle’s fajing is that essentially everyone else out there demonstrated fajing as being a giant push that sent people sprawling, or rocketed them into the air, while Erle was just about the only person who said that was nonsense.
what i didnt like about erle fa jing was that it was a simple punch with heavy intent put into it, had this been say a wing chun inch punch the way he did it would be fine had his arm been straight out.
but the mechanics of how he did it just wasnt tai ji fa jing ,even though fa jing is a tottally over used word in my opinion. Since fa jing is explosive energy you could say but it was fa jing yes , but not in a tai ji concept. Also the other thing that made me say its not real fa jing is that , no matter wether we like it or not , the fact that we say real fa jing puts the energy into the person and causes internal damage and its not visible on the outside is quite a lot of bull, in my opinion, if we place the intent to bounce the oponent with our fajing movement then he will go flying , if we use our intent to focus the energy into the opponent he will suffer internal damage. Had erle used internal fajing, regardless of wether the pad is there or not the person holding it would really feel pain in his hand as the “shockwaves”&“chi” does actually penetrate the pad. Alternatively had it been powerful fajing to bounce the pad , the pad would have gone flying back. NEither of which i really saw.
All this aside i have to say that i like the fact that erle stresses the fighting side of his tai ji more than 90% of modern practitioners.but then again you could say this comes from a misconception about the art, if you practise tai ji for long enough you can see that it is structured in a unique way which is very different from the normal concept of block a punch and attack or block a punch and redirect force into a throw, the diference between tai ji and other arts in fighting concept is miles away and too difficult i believe to be able to get a picture of it without practising for many years.
btw how long have you been practising for braden ? i notice bagua is listed in your profile.
what do bin laden and general custer have in common???
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