Flying Crane
Sr. Grandmaster
You didn't bother to read my entire comment. I said....... "simply not going to work well against someone doing an art equally well taught and performed, but that is more suitable to the circumstance." And ring competition is certainly going to be one circumstance when a well-taught Tai Chi guy is not going to do well against a well-taught Muay Thai guy! Here's another.....in a full-out fight with weapons, a well-taught BJJ guy is simply not going to fare well against a equally well-taught Kali Ilustrisimo guy! Here's another....a well-taught kickboxer is simply not going to fare well against a well-taught judo/jiu jitsu guy in a tight space that makes striking difficult.
You didn’t rerepost the critical part of your earlier post:
“ All martial arts are certainly not created equal! There are some martial arts, that no matter how well taught or performed, are simply not going to...”
Where you then put taiji in the context of a ring fight against a Thai boxer. Maybe you didn’t intend to make such a comparison, but that is the message I got from it, that you feel ring competition is the yardstick against which all useful martial training must be measured.