Edifying. I trained with a very highly respected member of the Chen lineage early mornings outside the wall at Xi'an, then longfist evenings in the Muslim quarter of the city with a very old teacher and a much younger trainer who put everything into practice. I wasn't at either place to judge or...
I'm going to go out on a limb and suppose I have more experience with wrestling at a high level than anyone else here, and I do appreciate the value and applicability of taijichuan.
The goal in wrestling is to control your opponent's position. The goal in boxing is to knock your opponent out. And that video didn't look very shuai jiao to me. Maybe too short.
A lot of people insist on separating things that really aren't. Everything you've ever learned/trained/tested in real life conditions informs what tools you bring to bear during a given situation.
Several times I have had the embarrassing experience of stopping a student in the hallway and demanding they show their student ID only to discover it was just a younger teacher. Everyone under 30 looks like a child now.
I once had some business at a bank that required two forms of ID. I happened to have my birth certificate tucked into the deep recesses of my wallet. The genius working at the bank looked over the document then said she couldn't accept it because there was no expiration date on it! She looked at...
I was asking for a quote supporting the accusation that I was not posting on topic and/or that I was lying about my own personal life experiences. Or we could stop this "Let's troll Unkotare" and get back to the point.
This is getting a little weird. I just told you about my personal experience. I've said many times that you are free to believe whatever you want, that won't change reality. Why this bothers you so much is odd. It has become some kind of obsession for you. All I can say is that I have no reason...