So I have to admit that I watched this yesterday and thought that the takedown at the shoulder at around 3:00 was BS. I explained it to my partner and demonstrated and he collapsed with almost no resistance. Had him do it to me, same thing. I really enjoy your videos and am very glad that I went to test this out. Thank you for posting so many great applications.

Great practitioner and teacher, nice personality with good sense and logic within his instructions.

@DanDjurdjevicplus

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Thank you for these practical incites you really demonstrate why an understanding of grasp birds tail is essential to the practical application of the material in the CPL 99 form

@DanDjurdjevicplus

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks mate!

Great video thanks Dan!

your application videos are a great help to me, thank you.

@DanDjurdjevicplus

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks Michael!

Nice deflection at the very end! I've never seen that before!

@DanDjurdjevicplus

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

thankyou for helping me see how it works

Excellent video. Thank you.

Great video. Thank you. On a side note: what a nice training space. What are all the ropes for?

@DanDjurdjevicplus

5 жыл бұрын

Tim Barry thanks. The ropes are aids for yoga and we use them for stretching and exercise.

Reminds me of my Shifu. Thanks

Very impressive, but if you're using strength or speed (or both--e.g., in a block) to defend yourself, how is this even Taiji? (See ‘the Song of Push Hands’ in the Taiji Classics.)

@DanDjurdjevicplus

5 жыл бұрын

Jeffrey Robbins If you don’t use some element of yang you aren’t doing taijiquan. The art is not pure yin. Some strength and speed is required for anything physical. Technique can’t replace all strength. That’s why you wouldn’t be able to defend yourself against someone twice your height and weight, no matter what skill you had.

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this would never work in a street fight. if your opponent is coming at you full force, you will never "simply" deflect with your forearm

@DanDjurdjevicplus

3 жыл бұрын

You always use deflection with some element of body movement/evasion (even if it is not shown in the form). It is used all the time by people who have actually practiced and developed these techniques - including people like Jon Jones, Jorge Masvidal and others in MMA. kzread.info/dash/bejne/c4qYpMihaNnegZc.html The whole idea is *not* to meet the “full force” head on but to *deflect/slip* it. This concept is amply attested in all sorts of full force scenarios.