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  • had not checked any of her vids for awhile and was very sad to see she has passed away, very skilled teacher -hard find a better vids on the net, really gave me some ideas. Rest in peace Joanna.

  • Too bad. Excellent tai ji.

  • Really sorry to hear this news. I found these videos helpful for interpreting my form to have some intent. Joanna seemed like a very sharing person. Condolences to her family and friends.

  • I'm sorry to have to announce that Joanna died on Sunday 6th March. I'm not really in a place where I can answer your martial arts queries but I shall be leaving the comments option open.

    Please remember Joanna fondly as I do. Her passing is a great loss.

    Julie, Martial Training Association

  • Is way past joking FOR SURE!

  • Good teached techniks! I like it! I am starting to teach Wushu. So i look for good "teaching wushu vid.". To your diskussion, i do not understand all (sry my english...) but i think in this world are are alot bad teachers in N.+S.america, Europ, Asia, Arktika...

  • @chisaocity

    That's funny - I generally eat wing chun people for breakfast and have been since very early in my training - even beating people with years of experience after just a few months under my belt. Funny that :D People are very funny in the things they think they can see - I wouldn't dream of being so presumptuous after watching a film. Wing chun people can be pushed over backwards, silly, and they're double heavy ALL the time. Oh, OK, maybe I have my presumptuous moments too ;)

  • @martialtaichi

    Bitch stop acting like an egocentric faggot American okay? you are lucky you Europeans are getting accurate information regarding Traditional Martial arts to the point where European traditional fighting methods are overlooked. The people who practiced martial arts do not even mess with around with these egomaniacs.

  • @worldworks

    Bitch? Really? You actively choose to talk to me like that? OK - I look forward to you looking me up and saying your crap to my face. I don't feel especially lucky to have been graced with Eastern martial wisdom. I was doing OK with what I had before - different paths up the same mountain. I happen to like several of the Chinese arts, as well as some other pacific styles - silat, escrima, but I'd have managed OK without them. When you get to the top, you can see all the paths up.

  • @martialtaichi

    What you think just because you earned the credibility of over 100 street knockouts you think you are a master? what the hell just get one thing clear if you were a man you wouldn't be on youtube why? because you would be serving jail time because in some countries you have to get your hands licensed because you are considered a deadly weapon. The problem is that woman pretend to be oppressed and weak just so they can get away with anything.

  • @worldworks

    Interesting comment. I don't think I have ever pretended to be oppressed or weak because I am neither. As for being on Youtube - they'll let anyone on here - they don't seem to worry about quality control. Maybe you should try putting up a film or two yourself :) I'm sure you must have some special skill pr secret power you'd like to share with the world. As for my "mastery" I was called "a true expert" and described as "very very good - very crack" by my masters. (to be continued)

  • @martialtaichi

    they also told me to trust myself and change anything I liked because I know what I'm doing. Other veteran experts (like the guys at Plum Publications) have liked my work and convinced me to produce DVDs. That's why I'm on Youtube - I was asked to make my work public. Sorry to burst your bubble.

  • @martialtaichi I know you Europeans know what you doing when it comes to traditional martial arts from Asia. Just do not sink to the American people's attitude of egocentrism and self gain okay?

    If you were an instructor and your students got into the same competitive shouting matches to the point where a fight started you would kick them out of your class.

    Fucken European Union just show us videos of your "Street Knockouts" we need more woman like you to expose this female deception.

  • @martialtaichi

    I do not want to share it with Americans=666 I only trust you Europeans so it would have to be private.

  • I am a XingyiQuan practicioner and I practice Yang TaichiQuan and what your showing is good and well meant but, the legs must bow and weight must shift. It seems your off balanced in most of all your movements, If you would use the taichi walk/ step with the arms, the opponent would be trown. Try using an open hand so you dont hurt that poor girl. Nice video.

  • got a question for people that have knowledge in martial arts ONLY.

    Do you shift on your heals? i thought your never suppose to be on your heals because your weight would be poorly distributed...Also if you say you shift on the balls of your feet doesnt this feel awkward? 0:35 This may not be directly related to the video but im just talking about any martial arts in general

  • @AzNmiX96

    pivoting on the heels whilst pushing ALL of your weight forwards, braces the posture against the impact. You need to sink into your stance at the same time. If you pivot on the balls, some of your power leaks backwards. You need to make the pivot point the front hip and drive it forwards. If you think about it, you can throw your body at the target ballistically - plucking your root (rear heel) OR you can brace against the ground and push, like pushing a car, which is way stronger.

  • Boxing??? o.O

  • Nice video! There are other applications of Tai-Chi that I have learned, but I haven't seen these until now! Of course, Tai-Chi has at least 100 variations for each movement (or so I've been told...and I'm nowhere near finished learning!) Thanks for posting!

  • This is an excellent exposition & elaboration of Tai Chi applications. It 'makes the point'. Tai Chi is an amazing art; I have practiced neijia and I know the strength within these practices first hand, while I did Qigong - it too applied to my Kung Fu practice: speed, clarity, iron body- and this is nearly motionless Chi Kung Nei Kung but I wouldn't be what I am today without it. I wish I had practiced Tai Chi also, but I learned Wing Chun, BaJi & Neigong (25 years or work I never regret!)

  • her balance and form is shit i could easily sweep her feet away

  • @djsubliminalreeve

    don't be silly - you have no idea what you could and couldn't do if we fought each other, just by watching a slow instructional video. I haven't lost a fight in years and I've fought some tough competitors.

    Besides, I would hope people from other martial styles WOULD have tricks they could use on me - no 1 style is perfect - they all set different priorities. I'm concerned with what a street attacker would do & prioritise speed & mobility (due to a very arthritic left hip.)

  • @djsubliminalreeve, WTF? Why would you EVER want to discourage beautiful women from playing rough like this? Jeez . . .

  • I practiced Tai-Chi for several years I aknowledge many of its potentials including developing resistance to pain through relaxation but I still have some doubts about its full potential when it comes to self deffense.

    But I think this video is pretty good and so are the applications presented and the way they are presented.

  • @landlordzable

    It DOES work in real life - or at least I do as a fighter - I've had numerous very serious violent encounters with gangsters and psychos and defended myself and other people from being killed. I spent many years surrounded by violence and criminality. Life has become a lot more peaceful now that I can rely on my fighting skill alone without having to resort to simply being more brutal than my opponents.

  • @martialtaichi

    you have put people in the hospital how many streetfights have you encountered? You videos are special because you understand the components that help the evolution of each martial art style.

    You actually used the forms while engaging in real fights and violent encounters may god you must have too many street knockouts am I correct?

  • @worldworks

    I can't really comment about specific incidents, or prefer not to right here, right now

  • @martialtaichi oh okay it's just you are demonstrating the san shou/sanda concepts of tai chi.

  • an obnoxious person would be one who refuses to acknowledge points in a discussion, or attempts to change the direction of the discussion or repurpose it when their platform is weak or defeated.

  • @yubarraboo

    Thank you for giving us a definitive definition for the word "obnoxious". I had no idea there was such precision to being "very unpleasant"?

  • Thankyou for the reply! None of my posts, are ment to be obnoxious!

    Although differing writing styles can be taken in the wrong way!

    Anyway if you're practising the internal principles,you will,if not already,come to the conclusion and correct one.You will in effect be practising taiji,bagua,xyingi,yichuan,aik­ido ect,simultaneously without being locked or boxed in by any of them.Truly internal! ;)

  • Sure - I can go along with that. That's why the framework I teach these days is called "Universal Martial Training" and the styles are just things we look at for specific strategic examples and training ideas. As for how high I am up that universal mountain - well the top seems to get ever further away, but I'm sure I'm still climbing and grow ever surer that I'm on a path that goes right on up to the top.

  • You may block me if you wish!

    I just think your training and teaching is the slow way!Your thinking too much.

    If you were to watch or play a game of tennis you would see the correct body mechanics for fighting!

    It is only in the martial arts where people make something very easy to learn complicated.I can teach anybody(non martial artist) the one inch or no inch(touching)punch in under a minute-truth is simple lies are complicated!!

  • I don't want to block you unless you get obnoxious. You are totally right about the tennis - it is an analogy I often use - Venus Williams forehand and backhand smashes show perfect body mechanics and those two movements, or derivatives of them, are all you need. I make these films and DVDs for people who practice Taiji and Bagua forms but whose teachers don't teach fighting. My own classes are much more hands on.

  • @guidedchaos64

    No - I'm not wrong. What we do is natural movement, but many movements people train are not natural - they are not informed by optimal biomechanics. Everything should be optimal - the number of optimal movements the body can execute is very limited. You can rise or sink as you strike or kick, but sinking is correct. You can lean or remain upright as you push, but remaining upright is correct. You can perform movements with no reeling silk or with it, but with it is correct etc.

  • What you do is natural?

    I don't think so some how.

    To be honest I think what you do, however well meaning, is just exercise.

    As for "YOUR" idea of optimal movements being very limited,I think you'll actually find it is staggering the optimal movements the human body can do.

    Forms are limited.

    We can all run at virtual top speed whilst fighting off the attack of a swarm of bees,all totally natural and reflexsive.

    How many form collectors could break pass 5mph doing their form at full speed?

  • @guidedchaos64 you are very noisy and persistent. Forms are indeed very limited which is why I focus almost entirely on principles and hands-on training (see my various weblinks). I haven't lost a fight in many years - I'm lightning fast and really quite vicious. You don't need to be convinced because you don't train with me. I think we are unlikely to agree on much. Good luck with your training. Meanwhile, if you get too monotonous I'll block your comments.

  • @martialtaichi "guidedchaos" is a pro troll, who thrives on argument, it gives him a sense of purpose, by making other people "wrong" he gets the cheap low level buzz of being "right" (yipeee!)

    ... do not give this ego oxygen :)

    nice video by the way, nice to see some combative applications of tai chi

  • Sorry but you're wrong!

    Any movement" can" and is used martially.

    The openining and closing movment in all taiji forms including bagua mother palm forms,is actually a bastardisation of the human flinch response.This flinch response is the fastest movement a human can do.Your hands come up at blinding speed,your weight drops -sinking in taiji terminology-into the floor,the rebound(plyometrics)is your power source for fajing(cold power).

    "Be" the principles not the style!!

  • Not all movement is taiji or bagua???

    Taiji and bagua is a set of principles in" natural" movement!

    "NOT" a set of set movements!

    If it aint natural,it aint going to work (forensic fact).

    Techniques have no place in fighting period!

    Adaptability and trained reflexes are the true keys in life and death struggles.

    In combat all styles look the same(chaotic).Let the principles become part of" you" not the style!!

    Then you can find the natural movements missing from taiji and bagua.

  • Techniques are examples of connected whole body power. Building a martial vocabulary of such techniques enables you ultimately to move beyond them. This training method has been around a long time and works very well. The problem with many styles of Taiji and Bagua (and most styles) is not that there is anything missing, but that there is too much incorrect movement. You only need one whole body power movement method which can be then applied to any direction for any purpose.

  • Any movement can be martial!

    The human body can move in 1 million different ways.This is why taiji and bagua taught today is very poor.

    All form and no function.real fights have no form or stiff robotic movements.

    They're fluid and chaotic.

    William ewart Fairbairn took the crap out of jujitsu and bagua and created british close combat,he simplified it,so it would work when the shit hit fan.This is doju or mcdojo rubbish!

    Try Erle Montaigu,the real deal.

  • @guidedchaos64

    yes - any movement can be martial but not all martial movement is Taiji or bagua - that is why they exist as distinct styles, each with their own sets of priorities, specialities and training approaches. They work in their own right as systems, or principles can be extrapolated, but they should not be lost altogether in the soup of MMA. And Erle has his rules too... they're just different ones. My fighting method works exceptionally well in life or death battles, so I'm happy.

  • thanks for the vid. :) I know tai chi but I was unsure of how I could use it as self defense.

  • i dont think that this crap would work on the street as self defense

  • It works well on the street - thanks for your concern.

  • I'm a fairly accomplished vigilante :)

  • if boxing works because of blocking and punching, this will work since it is obviously just blocking (with parrying) and punching (simultaneously with blocking)

  • interesting look at tai chi from a boxing perspective!

  • Good to see this being done.

  • its good to see ladies doing the martial aspects of Tai Chi instead of just hand form. Good for you.

  • *****

    Nice! Thanks ;) Muy lindo, yo practico karate pero el tai chi es una muy linda diciplina tambien, me gustaria combinar la potencia del karate con un poco de la tecnica del tai chi.

  • Those ladies are really nice, but those are some rather useless combat techniques...

  • I would like to know the name of this master and where she lives. I am from Brazil and I pratice tai chi of Yang style.

  • Very interesting application.

    I would say those applications are quite deadly if you use the internal energy (Chi or Qi) if open palms.

  • Just curious. Have these techniques been tested on someone who knows how to box? No offense to the assistant but she clearly does no box so one wonders where the ideas of come from. Ho have they been validated. I gather from the website that this is more of a rediscovery of tai chi applications than a transmission and if so how has this process been done? Looking forward to the reply, respectfully kjax

  • Hi - many of the applications are transmitted, just not from a single lineage source. Everything is tried and tested inside the school as well as having been tested sparring against other instructors and their students. I've also had to use a couple of things in self defense.

    Julie's boxing is OK as it happens, the demo is just very slow and steady to show movements slow enough to see the body mechanics of the techniques.

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