Looks like they won't be forgetting the fight anytime soon
People will miss that point right along with self proclaimed tai chi master title
It's not going to change things in China people already do bjj and mma and people already do traditional Chinese arts.
Well xu life is ruined and he has stalkers so might just get killed in an alley.
I see it playing out like this as well. I don't think Tai Chi will get hit as hard as the other CMAS like Hung Ga, Wing Chun etc. People will need to be honest with why they train. I recently told the students at at my school not to make assumptions beyond their training focus. I also told them that training for fitness is a valid reason. Just don't assume that they can fight or use self defense if they aren't in the sparring class where we train with that focus and practice in the context of someone attacking.
Yep always a possibility even if he didn't fight. I like what he did, but not how he did it. I also understand his frustration with people teaching martial arts and claiming that the teaching is good enough for self defense. Any other industry would have been sued for false claims.
1 out of 10. He also never said to my knowledge that Tai Chi was a useless system. He just doesn't like the fake demos and claims nor the personal insult he claimed to have gotten. It's always amazing how things like this could have been avoided had there been an "ignore button" where one just walks away.
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Welcome to MT.First post here!
I'm not really sure if people here know how deep the fraud with Lei Lei actually is and what's his fame. He has performed in Chinese MA tv-shows feats that were actually faked by the producers to make it look like he had tremendous "internal skill". Take this scene of striking a melon, for example. Xu Xiaodong told that it was revealed to him being rolled on the ground before shooting:
According to Xu's interview, Lei Lei was also totally delusional about his fighting prowess before the bout. I'm fairly confident this must be a very common disease among CMAs in China and abroad. (Luckily I have no trouble admitting of getting my butt whooped any day by any more athletic individual in competitive MAs.
Surprisingly, contrary to this forum, everyone in my kung fu circles seems to be very happy about Xu Xiaodong breathing some fresh air and giving a reality check to TMAists: Can you actually fight?. Even Lü Baochun, one of Europe's most prominent and respected teachers of Baji and internal arts thinks this fight "should wake Chinese martial arts up, otherwise they will die".
Declining for decades? Wow they're taking their time to die then aren't they
That right there is comedy gold. I was NOT expecting that in this thread!
Sanda is its own sport. MMA is a different sport than Sanda.
If you really think this did nothing, you're simply not paying attention.
