Interview with Grandmaster Ma Hong

[wagfinpis]

focus deeply use your heart and mind (yi)

use a real intention (yi)

do not neglect even the smallest detail of the form, discover it's full meaning.

[NickHaterr]

Yaron Benyamini is my teacher. Really.

[rberry978]

this translator is a 'try too hard'

[Blacklatte1019]

牡丹江的呢，我顶！

[shlsyk]

this translater is not that great. he adds a lot of additional talks of his own opinion ! the master said a few words and he adds a few sentences....and when master was talks, the translater doesnt stop....

[neko6]

The translator is his student, he probably understands what the master means with little words, then explains it thoroughly.

[shlsyk]

dont give us that big bull shxt.

Translation is translation. u translate what you hear.

unless he is better than his own teacher.

sitting right next to a great tai chi teacher explaining in mandarin, and then u translate it into something else and add shxt in it. that is typical foreigners bull shxt

[imbrd]

translation is 10% word to word 90% context especially in chinese. Chinese is famous for 4 letter phrase/words each of which has a profuse meaning coming from stories, poems, histories, contexts etc. So translation between a super high level & super advanced language that has been cultivated for many thousands years combined w/ the master's own gained wisdom to enunciate those phrases  obviously implies a great amount of contextual references which require greater words not fewer for those

[imbrd]

underdeveloped very beginner students. Its like trying to explain some abstract advanced multivariable calculus concept to an elementary student. Each & every concept of calculus has been developed, theorized, proved, practiced, ingrained & pondered for many years in order to achieve that level of understanding&development. thus to dumb down an advanced concept to 1 whom lacks basic understanding requires further disertation & explanation to contextualize&situate the concepts

[imbrd]

i mean if u ask a layman what is relax they can't describe or even simulate it as profoundly & accurately if at all as a high level taiji master thus there is something called a difference in understanding- mor accurately, a lack of basic understandings.

[boblau]

Thank you so much for posting this. MaHong is great. He is 80 years young this year, and still going strong. A great example of what consistent practice, with out shopping around can do for you. How can one get to study with him?

[nikwax]

perhaps a trip to China is in order?

[neko6]

I believe the use of "master" in some parts of the west is somewhat analogous to "lao shi" or "sensei" in the far east. Thus the meaning of "GrandMaster" is a teacher whose students have become teachers or masters themselves. The exact moment in which a person could be called a master isn't well defined in taiji, so I wouldn't bother with the subject too much.

[wagfinpis]

@neko6 every one is a master to day. it seems to be more of an honorary title in many cases, or to get students like some sort of minimal accreditation for an experienced instructor. their are thousands of tai chi masters yet when have you ever seen one proficient tai chi practitioner use a 13 postures style system in any free fighting demonstrationl. i respect the arts and its custodians but i have only ever heard of masters of tai chi and have never even seen one proficient practitioner.

[amirbinyamini]

@curtrod

man you are so full of crap !!! stop wory about those unimportent things and try to learn,belive me the titles are not important as the knowladge those pepole have...no metter what belt he wear what title he have the things he know are rare and precioust, try be less judgemental and mybe you will learn a few things !

[curtrod]

@amirbinyamini ma hong is a great master and I do not appreciate being called full of crap because I understand that calling oneself grandmaster IS being FULL OF CRAP!, what are you then amirbinyamini?, I was trying to say that sitting next to a man who could call himself grandmaster and putting yourself at HIS level is arrogant and ignorant, being respectful to your teacher is important, or do you call yourself 'the holy prophet amirbinyamini'?, OF COURSE NOT, so, go bugger yourself!

[taijiinchina]

The young foreign guy is a Grandmaster while the old senior guy with a great reputation is called only as a Master. How disrespectful? How absurd?