I'm not a tai chi person, but I have lots of respect for them because I have experienced good skills first hand. Boxing can't compare. It's just brute muscle, weight, and external training...whoever is bigger and can take more damage wins. Not much different than your everyday ox or cow. Of course, boxing has precision and science, and wrestling also, but a truly "good" Tai Chi person is one of the most dangerous opponents you can find in my opinion. They hit you with more parts of their bodies.
The problem lies in that true mastery of taijiquan is a long, difficult process first off, secondly showing such a skill off is a waste of effort as well as purpose behind the training in the first place. Just saying that a true taiji master (yes I have sparred with one in full contact once) would destroy his opponent with very few exceptions. (I was put in the hosipital for nearly three days after fight with kidney problems resulting from internal injuries from the master's striking patterns.)
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All the Taiji people - when you can show us a Master beating a boxer, then there will be proof that taiji is, on its own, a combat art. However, all I can find are videos of chi/qi/ki "masters" being hurt, harmed, or disproved by other styles and skeptics.
Have we all forgotten the lesson here? watch?v=gEDaCIDvj6I or here? watch?v=JjK0g-cDJI4
the "challengers" were challenging him to a Tai Chi duel, not kickboxing. if it were the latter case, he might as well sweep hook their legs and throw them down... ( ok, that's still Tai Chi XD )
but you are right, I wonder how good the old dude is against someone who fights like, say, a bear, or a mantis shrimp ;)
you are right.its just that they dont practice it like wrestlers or boxers do by getting in and going 100% with each other. I wish they did.Getting my ass kicked like these "Challengers" has happened once or twice to me here in China.I think that China needs more challenge matches...and the key thing is to play your own game in the challenge,not the other guy's game - unless you play it better - which is what these poor guys ended up doing just before they got served.
12 months of regular boxing with a great coach and you can knock this "master" out.
Ill even tell you how... dont start in his push hands stance, and throw combination punches. Getting you to start in "his" stance is an age old trick... if you challenge someone, do your own thing, not theirs!
Boxing, regular boxing is a sport and Tai chi is a form of exercise and one of China's three internal martial arts. A martial art is an art of war. War is not "sport" so realistically do you think that this "master" would stand and try and fight a boxer with a push hands stance? If you truly think this you are sorely misinformed and I suggest you challenge a master with your western boxing skills and see what happens, then post a comment. Have a nice day.
First: yes there is such a thing as an internal or soft art and no I am not referring to anything like "Combat Ki" I'm sure you know what that is. If not what I am saying is that I don't believe that any "master" can knock someone down with only "chi" from across the room.
Second: I can say that in comparison to Western boxing and wrestling they are FAR SUPERIOR. Yes I have read S.E.H. and research by one individual no matter the credentials does not make a case thanks again
I'm not a tai chi person, but I have lots of respect for them because I have experienced good skills first hand. Boxing can't compare. It's just brute muscle, weight, and external training...whoever is bigger and can take more damage wins. Not much different than your everyday ox or cow. Of course, boxing has precision and science, and wrestling also, but a truly "good" Tai Chi person is one of the most dangerous opponents you can find in my opinion. They hit you with more parts of their bodies.
matreyia 3 years ago
The problem lies in that true mastery of taijiquan is a long, difficult process first off, secondly showing such a skill off is a waste of effort as well as purpose behind the training in the first place. Just saying that a true taiji master (yes I have sparred with one in full contact once) would destroy his opponent with very few exceptions. (I was put in the hosipital for nearly three days after fight with kidney problems resulting from internal injuries from the master's striking patterns.)
shodan18 4 years ago
So you sparred with a true taiji master? You must real smart? lol
kaligula4life 4 years ago
"You must real smart?" lmao
shodan18 3 years ago
damn....forgot the "be" lol...clumsy me :)
kaligula4life 3 years ago
It was the ultimate line to phuq up though, guess that's some comfort^^
Lundix 3 years ago
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All the Taiji people - when you can show us a Master beating a boxer, then there will be proof that taiji is, on its own, a combat art. However, all I can find are videos of chi/qi/ki "masters" being hurt, harmed, or disproved by other styles and skeptics.
Have we all forgotten the lesson here? watch?v=gEDaCIDvj6I or here? watch?v=JjK0g-cDJI4
dboyzero 4 years ago
yes taijiquan is definitely the deadliest form of fighting ever created
samsterjamster111 4 years ago
is Tai Ji have same prospective as sodow boxing?
Donvon 4 years ago
watch cai wen yu training...look the difference of a real master of internal kung fu
qigongbrasil 5 years ago
the "challengers" were challenging him to a Tai Chi duel, not kickboxing. if it were the latter case, he might as well sweep hook their legs and throw them down... ( ok, that's still Tai Chi XD )
but you are right, I wonder how good the old dude is against someone who fights like, say, a bear, or a mantis shrimp ;)
StarSpawn06 5 years ago
I know you made this comment 2 years ago...
but...
i think that if he had a brain, he wouldn't fight someone who FIGHTS BEARS.
h3lblad3 2 years ago
you are right.its just that they dont practice it like wrestlers or boxers do by getting in and going 100% with each other. I wish they did.Getting my ass kicked like these "Challengers" has happened once or twice to me here in China.I think that China needs more challenge matches...and the key thing is to play your own game in the challenge,not the other guy's game - unless you play it better - which is what these poor guys ended up doing just before they got served.
ashwix 5 years ago
12 months of regular boxing with a great coach and you can knock this "master" out.
Ill even tell you how... dont start in his push hands stance, and throw combination punches. Getting you to start in "his" stance is an age old trick... if you challenge someone, do your own thing, not theirs!
ashwix 5 years ago
Boxing, regular boxing is a sport and Tai chi is a form of exercise and one of China's three internal martial arts. A martial art is an art of war. War is not "sport" so realistically do you think that this "master" would stand and try and fight a boxer with a push hands stance? If you truly think this you are sorely misinformed and I suggest you challenge a master with your western boxing skills and see what happens, then post a comment. Have a nice day.
alibuck119 4 years ago
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First: No such thing as an internal art. Read Stanely E Henning.
Second: I agree. If this "master" had two brain cells to rub together, he would run away from the boxer... or wrestler for that matter.
ashwix 4 years ago
First: yes there is such a thing as an internal or soft art and no I am not referring to anything like "Combat Ki" I'm sure you know what that is. If not what I am saying is that I don't believe that any "master" can knock someone down with only "chi" from across the room.
Second: I can say that in comparison to Western boxing and wrestling they are FAR SUPERIOR. Yes I have read S.E.H. and research by one individual no matter the credentials does not make a case thanks again
alibuck119 4 years ago
hao kan!
sengokou 5 years ago