i lost interest as soon as he said anticipate... if u anticipate that means your thinking and not reacting, and the opponent who isn't thinking will be that much faster than you if you were "anticipating"
@HomasterX And that's the problem with thinking that you can take a superhuman approach to fighting. In every real fight I ever had, and every tournament match I ever fought, I was able to anticipate what the opponent was going to do. A lot of times it's true -- you do react without conscious thought. But this is a training video and it's intended to show people how to begin internalizing these applications. Homaster, you're typical of all the "experts" commenting when you should just learn.
Could Tai Chi help in a real fight if someone on the streets starts a fight with you or other martial arts? or is Tai Chi more of a healing Martial Art?
@Kingdom4Otakus Tai Chi is a fighting art. You can't be healed with Tai Chi anymore than you can be healed by Tae Kwon Do. That's a myth. But any physical exercise should make you healthier, so Tai Chi can do that, too. But so can any physical activity. In China, the great Tai Chi fighters were and still are very tough.
Taiji is the Supreme Ultimate, especially Chen. All internal styles, Taiji, Bagua, Xing Yi, Liu He Ba Fa are excellent for fighting. The most important aspect of Yang is relaxation. Relaxation, not only physically but also mentally, is most needed for success in a fight. Anyone who disagrees hasn't been in a fight.
anybody can show a tcc in a real fight, or like a selfdefense situation, o a simulation where i can see the martial side of tcc? i only see videos of aplications in slow motion... and thats no good for the streets...
@sombras1981 Dude, I have had some students who have used our techniques "in the street." One is a cop who has taken down some real criminals using the techniques he practiced in my classes. But you can't break your classmates when you practice, so you do it this way -- you pad up and you practice anticipating and doing the technique without hurting your partner. This is a training video. It is to provide ideas for your training. It isn't a street fight, but any of these techniques will work.
Cool stuff. There's a few ideas I hadn't realy thought of (like the ground punch being a throw). I also find it useful to analyse my TKD forms with these ideas and find what I'm being taught as a block could also be a throw etc. Thanks.
sifu ken dont hear what the assholes says about your tai chi,i practise wing tsun and im liking your fighting stuff,its great,good luck with your training,Denis ,albania
Very interesting. Similar, in a way, to Kung Fu San Soo (tsoi li ho fut hung) - my base style. I think I'll start paying a little bit more attention to Tai Chi from now on. Thanks for the upload. 5/5 stars
You haters are also missing an important factor. This is only a demo, thus sifu and student aren't moving to their true potential. If you guys say Sifu Ken uses too much force, well then that's because this is a demo, his student isn't using force to punch or rush, so there isn't much force for Sifu Ken to "borrow", like in a real fight situation. Obviously to follow through with his demo, he has to use a tad more force. In a real fight, his applications could well use the opponent's force.
very nice, you did a great job. Thanks for posting. I practice Yang style and I find that my application has evolved and looks similar to what you are doing. Keep up the good work!!! from london uk
ironwhim42 i think your are 100% right and i also think for if these other guys would spend as much time training as they spend fussing about styles they would all be black belts.
khlun, let me guess -- you study Yang style. Only Yang students have such a misunderstanding of Tai Chi. You should study Chen style, and yes, I've worked with the direct descendants of the man who created tai chi -- they're also the direct descendants of the man who taught Yang LuChan. As I said before, you have a very narrow view of tai chi, and it's because--I suspect--that you practice Yang style from people who claim to be masters but probably are not.
Hi, I am new to martial arts and would really like to start learning Tai Chi mostly because i like the discipline and i think it might help me to control my anger a little better, i have a question though. It seemed as though when you do your knockdown moves that it wouldnt really hurt the opponent but fustrate them about their inability to hit you? Do the falls an opponent experiences hurt that bad? Just curious and inexperienced in martial arts.
throws his opponents he barely uses any power at all, if you actually put some energy into the internal throws you cause serious damage (which would be the explaination as to why he doesn't do it in the demo :)). I hope that answers your question, good luck with your training!
You're right, Sjnjerak. When you're training, if you injure your partner, you won't have a partner to train with. :) It's very easy to hurt your partners when you train, and that just wouldn't help anyone to learn.
Sifu, I have a question (entirely unrelated to the video) What form of Bagua do you study and how does it work for you to combine Hsing-I, Taiji and Bagua?
I'm just a mere beginner when it comes to the internal arts but it feels as if I could invest an entire lifetime in bagua and still not master the entire system. :)
@kungfukennyg hahaha that's so very true! besides, neither will truly learn anything if only one of partner is landing all the moves. And about the Yang style; people doesn't understand that Yang style branched off pretty from the original tree. Yang Lu Chang add a lot of other stuff in there that he liked and also took out some of the things he thought he didn't need.
I don't know how can taichi is applied when your hands are in groves like western style boxing casue there will be no "sticky hand" which is of the specialties in taichi fighing; just to stress, not wrestling. If you saw moves of old masters about push hands, you will note sticky hand; no grabbing, no holding but he can control his opponent entirely.
You think you can't do sticky hands with gloves on? And you think tai chi always uses sticky hands in self defense? You have too narrow a view of tai chi, my friend. I wasn't doing push hands in this video. Have you ever seen DVDs of masters doing tai chi fighting applications? Sticky hands isn't always used. Tai Chi is brutal. If you're going to practice that type of tai chi, you should pad up to avoid injury.
ooooh!!!! 0.0 i can do some of those moves!!!! ill try it on my bro l8r!!!!! nyahahahaha!!! thnks kungfukennyg!!!! ive been looking for instructional self defense vids and this is one of the best!!!! LOL!!!!
This is Chen tai chi. And like any martial art, some effort is required. When you're up against a real person, rather than a one-step situation in a class, tai chi is never quite as "pretty" as it is when you just do the form. :)
The only one I came across lately, that does not just demonstrate the "supreme abilities" of a martial art in a choreographed situation.
Any martial arts practitioner will confirm, that the difficult part in a sparring or real fight is, that you do not know, what your opponent/partner is going to do.
Excellent demonstrations. Your videos are great. I just wonder, however, if those hand techniques you are using would be able to withstand powerful kicks from, for example, a kickboxer who attacks you on the street. Also, it would be great to see some defense against 1-2 punch combinations. Peace.
I wish there was more of this kind of live action demo and training out there. There's too many masters that are concerned with looking good, and too few that actually want to develop useful skills in their students.
it all becomes an automatic reaction if you practice slow it works if you allow it to
mastermusicianxv 7 months ago
i lost interest as soon as he said anticipate... if u anticipate that means your thinking and not reacting, and the opponent who isn't thinking will be that much faster than you if you were "anticipating"
HomasterX 9 months ago
@HomasterX And that's the problem with thinking that you can take a superhuman approach to fighting. In every real fight I ever had, and every tournament match I ever fought, I was able to anticipate what the opponent was going to do. A lot of times it's true -- you do react without conscious thought. But this is a training video and it's intended to show people how to begin internalizing these applications. Homaster, you're typical of all the "experts" commenting when you should just learn.
kungfukennyg 9 months ago
That laugh at the end sounded so diabolical. Hehe
glhmedic 1 year ago
Could Tai Chi help in a real fight if someone on the streets starts a fight with you or other martial arts? or is Tai Chi more of a healing Martial Art?
Kingdom4Otakus 1 year ago
@Kingdom4Otakus Tai Chi is a fighting art. You can't be healed with Tai Chi anymore than you can be healed by Tae Kwon Do. That's a myth. But any physical exercise should make you healthier, so Tai Chi can do that, too. But so can any physical activity. In China, the great Tai Chi fighters were and still are very tough.
kungfukennyg 1 year ago
@Kingdom4Otakus
Taiji is the Supreme Ultimate, especially Chen. All internal styles, Taiji, Bagua, Xing Yi, Liu He Ba Fa are excellent for fighting. The most important aspect of Yang is relaxation. Relaxation, not only physically but also mentally, is most needed for success in a fight. Anyone who disagrees hasn't been in a fight.
DopoNotte 1 year ago
Those are nice sparring drill, preconceived training is part of a good training.
jfcktc 1 year ago
Ken. Thank you so much for putting this all into a sparring contest.
SWTaiChi 1 year ago
anybody can show a tcc in a real fight, or like a selfdefense situation, o a simulation where i can see the martial side of tcc? i only see videos of aplications in slow motion... and thats no good for the streets...
sombras1981 1 year ago
@sombras1981 Dude, I have had some students who have used our techniques "in the street." One is a cop who has taken down some real criminals using the techniques he practiced in my classes. But you can't break your classmates when you practice, so you do it this way -- you pad up and you practice anticipating and doing the technique without hurting your partner. This is a training video. It is to provide ideas for your training. It isn't a street fight, but any of these techniques will work.
kungfukennyg 1 year ago
Cool stuff. There's a few ideas I hadn't realy thought of (like the ground punch being a throw). I also find it useful to analyse my TKD forms with these ideas and find what I'm being taught as a block could also be a throw etc. Thanks.
moominpic 1 year ago
sifu ken dont hear what the assholes says about your tai chi,i practise wing tsun and im liking your fighting stuff,its great,good luck with your training,Denis ,albania
dragob732 1 year ago
Very interesting. Similar, in a way, to Kung Fu San Soo (tsoi li ho fut hung) - my base style. I think I'll start paying a little bit more attention to Tai Chi from now on. Thanks for the upload. 5/5 stars
Dashblades2 2 years ago
You haters are also missing an important factor. This is only a demo, thus sifu and student aren't moving to their true potential. If you guys say Sifu Ken uses too much force, well then that's because this is a demo, his student isn't using force to punch or rush, so there isn't much force for Sifu Ken to "borrow", like in a real fight situation. Obviously to follow through with his demo, he has to use a tad more force. In a real fight, his applications could well use the opponent's force.
lucidmist 2 years ago
very nice, you did a great job. Thanks for posting. I practice Yang style and I find that my application has evolved and looks similar to what you are doing. Keep up the good work!!! from london uk
jefjays 2 years ago
ironwhim42 i think your are 100% right and i also think for if these other guys would spend as much time training as they spend fussing about styles they would all be black belts.
ryetallon1 2 years ago
khlun, let me guess -- you study Yang style. Only Yang students have such a misunderstanding of Tai Chi. You should study Chen style, and yes, I've worked with the direct descendants of the man who created tai chi -- they're also the direct descendants of the man who taught Yang LuChan. As I said before, you have a very narrow view of tai chi, and it's because--I suspect--that you practice Yang style from people who claim to be masters but probably are not.
kungfukennyg 2 years ago
Hi, I am new to martial arts and would really like to start learning Tai Chi mostly because i like the discipline and i think it might help me to control my anger a little better, i have a question though. It seemed as though when you do your knockdown moves that it wouldnt really hurt the opponent but fustrate them about their inability to hit you? Do the falls an opponent experiences hurt that bad? Just curious and inexperienced in martial arts.
1chile1 2 years ago
1chile1, notice that when Sifu Ken
throws his opponents he barely uses any power at all, if you actually put some energy into the internal throws you cause serious damage (which would be the explaination as to why he doesn't do it in the demo :)). I hope that answers your question, good luck with your training!
Sjnjerak 2 years ago
You're right, Sjnjerak. When you're training, if you injure your partner, you won't have a partner to train with. :) It's very easy to hurt your partners when you train, and that just wouldn't help anyone to learn.
kungfukennyg 2 years ago
Sifu, I have a question (entirely unrelated to the video) What form of Bagua do you study and how does it work for you to combine Hsing-I, Taiji and Bagua?
I'm just a mere beginner when it comes to the internal arts but it feels as if I could invest an entire lifetime in bagua and still not master the entire system. :)
Sjnjerak 2 years ago
@kungfukennyg hahaha that's so very true! besides, neither will truly learn anything if only one of partner is landing all the moves. And about the Yang style; people doesn't understand that Yang style branched off pretty from the original tree. Yang Lu Chang add a lot of other stuff in there that he liked and also took out some of the things he thought he didn't need.
babymegatron 2 years ago
I don't know how can taichi is applied when your hands are in groves like western style boxing casue there will be no "sticky hand" which is of the specialties in taichi fighing; just to stress, not wrestling. If you saw moves of old masters about push hands, you will note sticky hand; no grabbing, no holding but he can control his opponent entirely.
khlun 2 years ago
You think you can't do sticky hands with gloves on? And you think tai chi always uses sticky hands in self defense? You have too narrow a view of tai chi, my friend. I wasn't doing push hands in this video. Have you ever seen DVDs of masters doing tai chi fighting applications? Sticky hands isn't always used. Tai Chi is brutal. If you're going to practice that type of tai chi, you should pad up to avoid injury.
kungfukennyg 2 years ago
ooooh!!!! 0.0 i can do some of those moves!!!! ill try it on my bro l8r!!!!! nyahahahaha!!! thnks kungfukennyg!!!! ive been looking for instructional self defense vids and this is one of the best!!!! LOL!!!!
leahcortina 3 years ago
What Tai Chi style is that? These are good applications but it looks and sounds kinda effortful.
monkfg 3 years ago
Hi monkfg,
This is Chen tai chi. And like any martial art, some effort is required. When you're up against a real person, rather than a one-step situation in a class, tai chi is never quite as "pretty" as it is when you just do the form. :)
kungfukennyg 3 years ago
Yeah, I know. Noone is perfect. Actually I'm glad to see more realistic applications here.
monkfg 3 years ago
Great video.
The only one I came across lately, that does not just demonstrate the "supreme abilities" of a martial art in a choreographed situation.
Any martial arts practitioner will confirm, that the difficult part in a sparring or real fight is, that you do not know, what your opponent/partner is going to do.
guitarsquiddy 3 years ago
Excellent demonstrations. Your videos are great. I just wonder, however, if those hand techniques you are using would be able to withstand powerful kicks from, for example, a kickboxer who attacks you on the street. Also, it would be great to see some defense against 1-2 punch combinations. Peace.
FinnishPete 3 years ago
Looks like good Taijiquan to me
Wycabwin 3 years ago
good video thanx
bahdah1234 3 years ago
i watched sum of your other vids good job man
88jackjack88 3 years ago
I wish there was more of this kind of live action demo and training out there. There's too many masters that are concerned with looking good, and too few that actually want to develop useful skills in their students.
WarriorBoy 3 years ago
neat stuff. thanks
mdvvi 4 years ago