Just curious, but do any of you Xing Yi, Ba Gua, or Taiji practitioners spar? I mean strap on gloves and foot gear and head gear and go at it?
Not trolling, just curious.
Yes, absolutely. How else can one learn to apply the movements?
there’s alot of stuff about it throughout IMA forum here
We don’t play sissy games with gloves. Nothing but barehand, steel toed, iron crotch, combat for us. If you need a cup, you’ve got no business fighting in the first place. 
Why in the world would you think otherwise?
Now a discussion of the way to get off the circle and in the ring might be constuctive. :o 
Yeah, we spar. In terms of gear we usually just use a mouthguard, though my teacher often wears gloves. I know gloves are designed to protect YOU, but it still dulls the impact a little. When we go all out, we all put on open hand gloves and headgear (without face-cage).
Oh–and about your original question…footgear? you must be joking.
Footgear:D
Yes, we do spar.
But as mentioned above no or nearly no gear, also no mats.
Nice wooden floor awaits the Body.
Sparring hands(San Shou) is seperate from Push hands(Tui shou).
Cheers.
sparring
We work up from push hands to sparring. For instance we might start by pushing hands and then work through to a take-down and a ground finish. When we started it was just push hands, then slowly more ballistic techniques were introduced.
Same here Count. No protection gear at all. No matter how hard the blow in sparring practice no one’s gonna die.
Ammendment
When training for comp’s we train full gear like we will be fighting. Harder than people think to carry the full load, look out from head gear, take off shoes etc. More often though, sparring with no gear and frequently on concrete.
Welcome here Joseph, are you friends with Fillipe and Xeb’s?
I practice with the guy. Felipe that is.
The comment about us not dying while applying power to techniques is our Sifu’s way of saying we should reserve the wuss inside of us for some other activity, not Xingyi.
Originally posted by Joseph_alb
I practice with the guy. Felipe that is.
The comment about us not dying while applying power to techniques is our Sifu’s way of saying we should reserve the wuss inside of us for some other activity, not Xingyi.
Funny! What are some of your “wussy” hobbies? J/K just kidding.
Hey, there’s a wuss in all of us.
I don’t understand how you guys can be fighting with Hsing-I and no gear … You guys are delivering full powered Cannon Fists to the jaw and ribs? Smashing fists to the collar bone and neck?
No gear?
Originally posted by EvolutionFist
I don’t understand how you guys can be fighting with Hsing-I and no gear … You guys are delivering full powered Cannon Fists to the jaw and ribs? Smashing fists to the collar bone and neck?
No gear?
If you have the skill to deliver that kind of power, “internal power”, than you should also have the skill to take a hit and deal with it. Besides, most protective gear is designed so you don’t hurt your opponent and not to protect you. In fact, a chest protector won’t do a thing against a solid kick to the ribs except keep you from completly closing the door.
You’re a bigger man than me!
I don’t know about my internal power, but I can give and take a good shot. But when I go out to play, let’s say the tournament in Sept., I know I can’t go out and play that way multiple times a week with no head gear. I can roll with a punch, but I’d be thinking it would be hard to find a date with my nostrils up against my earlobe and no teath.
Personally, I don’t like chest guards, but gloves and head gear and my friends.
Here’s a good question: What do you guys do for a living. I show up to work every now and then with a black eye (wrist splint now) but it’s cool because I’m a writer, behind the scenes except for occasional travel interviews.
No head gear I’m sure equals black eyes, busted noses, ect. How do you guys manage?
ray
Ha, taller yes, but you got me by about 80 pounds. If you read my ammendment about training for comps, you’ll get a better idea about where I am coming from. As far as work, I work at home in programming and design so it doesn’t matter what I look like. I’m already married so dates are not really an issue. And I’m really getting too old for the shit that comes from tournaments.
I hear ya. I’m doing the tournament thing now (probbaly for like another year) just because there’s been such a change in my technique and I like to match up with strangers to test. I have to say I learn a lot each time.
I go back and forth. Somedays I’m done with the whole, Got to go out and fight, and am completely content and just want to walk. Otherdays I get all fired up and like to cross hands. I guess that’s what being 29 is all about.
I’m weighing in at about 200lbs right now. Would like to drop down to 190… feeling good though minus this stupid wrist injury.
Peace
Ray