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There aren’t words to express my gratitude to of seen & heard this 🙏🙏🙏

the level of knowledge here is outstanding , im practice kung fu and martials arts and i use it for police force over 30 years and this is the way our sifu talk too , the way to understand the universe and logical force internal and external and convert that in power for our propose , fight , move a wheel in a car or rescue a people from some accidental , thx for upload this

I thought this was from Mark's feed, and only noticed the Martial Man in the background half way through!

Oooooo, how did I miss this? So good, so many layers, will definitely require a good few views. Thanks to Mark and The Martial Man for sharing. 🙂🙏🏼☯️👊🏼

@THEMARTIALMAN

Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure!

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Thank you!

@THEMARTIALMAN

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

🙏👏

Thanx!

@THEMARTIALMAN

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

thx mark ... yes thats the problems with all traditions what are not evolving and staying the same because of some old authority

Not understanding at the end about the double feet hop: is this trained by the person receiving the energy or sending the energy?

Good stuff!

@THEMARTIALMAN

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I appreciate this I plan on following my dream career becoming an actor and I would love to do something with fun creative and so I can work without worry about hurting myself or my friends or family yenno

New, does NOT always mean better. There are many things, that Never change. For example.. 1+1.. will still Equal 2, even 3000 more years, from today. Math, Physics, Geometry, and more.. have remained the same.. and will continue to remain the same. The problem... is that far too many people try to Reinvent the wheel... while not really fully understanding the methods and reasons of the Past. For example... todays MMA fighters, do not do the correct Combat-Breath. Compared to the real deal... its FAR inferior to the Traditional OLD methods. They dont even know the real deal... and even if you tried to explain it to them... they likely wouldnt pay attention... because they already have a personal BIAS against anything considered "OLD". When I was training in Wing Chun... I tried to make my own Wooden Dummy. I lacked the required woodworking skills... but I made an attempt. Besides the skill issues... I made the stupid mistake, in thinking that I could IMPROVE the dummys design... without even really fully understanding it. Up unto that time, I had only ever touched one, for a very brief amount of time.. and didnt even know the Dummy form. I made the center arm angled downwards.. thinking that it would represent a low attack more realistically. I made some other stupid changes.. but that one was one of the worst decisions... When I tried to follow along with a Dummy Instructional video... I realized that I couldnt replicate the form, on my makeshift dummy. For one.. I wasnt skilled enough to make moving arms. Since the arms wouldnt move in order to share the space with my limbs... I had to take an additional Step to reposition myself.. which completely changed the form. And since the middle arm was changed in angle.. I couldnt flow properly from each arm. Anyway... had I first trusted the knowledge, spend a lot more time with a real dummy.. to fully understand the hows and whys... then I wouldnt have been so quick to make a fool of myself. I wouldnt have wasted all sorts of time and energy on something that would end up failing / being wrong / inferior. Now.. I know how to do certain Internal Arts things... but I was never formally taught this stuff... and the Mystical Terminology does not help. As such, I can not be the Judge of weather this is valid information. That said, I do know that Grapplers may be strong... but they are often Tensed a lot of the time... which seems quite Opposite, to how Internal Arts operate. I believe there is something that is not fully understood. But I couldnt tell you either way... because this dude doesnt seen to show a good physical example, of what he was trying to Describe. I just HIGHY question someone that says that NEW equates to better... when the Chinese spent 2000 years, and BILLIONS of man-hours, developing their Combat arts methods. Its quite rare, that ANYONE in these modern times... could improve upon a billion man-hours of Development, Testing, and Life-Ending Events.

@beenright5115

Жыл бұрын

While I mostly agree with you, there is room for improvement in pedagogy, which can retain historical and cultural baggage in traditional arts, and the societal context can change which can require a change in method or just the goal of the practice.

@markdonovan1540

6 ай бұрын

That's an interesting comment, but he probably didn't quite mean to say that the old ways were of "no value". There are always different perspectives on these things that are difficult to grasp without the personal experience. However, one of my Tai Chi teacher's masters, Dr. Chi Chiang Tao, who had 50 years or more of experience in Tai Chi, in China, then Taiwan and then in the UK; he used to say that the Tai Chi nowadays (this was in the 80s) wasn't even 5% of what it used to be when he started learning. So, I don't think this can be written off as merely the "old school" not wanting to evolve. I think the evolution that Mark Rasmus refers to is the pedagogy, the method of teaching. Even within the older traditions, there was evolution in many aspects: style, lineage, school, teacher etc. There are also cultural influences, just like in any art, martial or otherwise. Some teachers come from a more Western, analytical mind approach. It's not necessarily better or worse. It depends on the people involved. It may, or may not, benefit a student wishing to learn by this approach. I find that there is a common trait I see in these teaching styles, which is the use of so many metaphors - I've done it myself when teaching too. However, somehow the student has to discover these connections and all the other principles by hard, continuous work. This is where most people fall short, myself included. A teacher, no matter how well they may do it themselves, or how well they understand it, they will only help you if they can transmit that knowledge and awareness to you. But they can't do the work for you, they can't "give you the skills" as such, you have to work at it through both individual and pair practices - that's why there are the various forms, push-hands, etc., in order to train the principles so that they can become natural and instinctive. I have experienced various teaching methods from different Tai Chi teachers, so it seems to me that there is no one single approach. People that practise, or want to learn Tai Chi, will do so for different reasons and seek different goals. A student needs to find the right teacher/school which suits their needs. Bear in mind that teachers will also be weighing up if a student is suitable for teaching. The trend these days is that a teacher will teach whoever pays to be taught without any other form of evaluation. Maybe this is an aspect of "evolution", but some people might consider it to be more like a form of "commercialization". Most of us, myself included, are far from achieving a complete understanding of Tai Chi Chuan, but that shouldn't prevent us from continuing to work at it and explore it's greater meaning for ourselves and put it into practice in our daily lives. We don't have long on this Earth, so we might as well give it a go and stick at it.

Your understanding of traditional taiji is absurdly wrong. Maybe your sifu told you so.