Water Boxing is the cultivation of the Big Three Internal Boxing styles through th teachings of Liuhebafa, Chen Tuan's ad Li Dongfong's philsophies that are emboded in Six Intenal and External Harmonies & Eight Internal and External Methods. In these Master's epochs accomplished students in Bagua, Xingyi and Taiji came to studt these wisdoms to becometrue masters of thier lineage forms and their fighting functions.
Taiji Quan is a Kung Fu discipline and although its internal methodology promtes peerless boxing from the position of superior health, energy and vitality that is carrier into ones senior years, external a well s internal training must be rigorously mandated. Taiji Quan unifies, internalizes and externalizes the philosophy of the Fu Xi's pre-natal, Yellow River Map of the Eight Cosmic Changes and Five Elemental Phases depicted by the Taijitu-Bagua-Wujing Trigram Circle. These Changes and Phases represent the modern Taiji Quan concept of the 13 Methods. A Pugilistic Taiji Quan Adept is skilled in the scholarship, practice and application of internal boxing treatise, alchemy and martial sciences that have developed from this foundational source and resulting methods. Whether one has learned a Taiji Quan style deriving from a Family or Monastery lineage these descriptions of skill hold true.
The Wu Box Style Fast Form taught through the Ying Jow Pai Association and many others in the Western World are standardized tools to teach the basics of Taiji. However, in order for these forms to approach a cultivated level of pugilistic proficiency more work must bedone as these forms are only shells of what Wu masters (Kung Yi and Kung T'sao), who learned from Yang Shou Hou, know from this grandmaster's transmissions. Either the disciples of these lineages do not know these transmissions or they are hiding them because many of these forms are as far from pugilistic function as they are from clearly depicting the philosophical foundations of the 13 Methods.
As I have formally studied the variations of the Yang and Wu Family pugilistic styles, I have also studied Western Pugilistic Styles of martial arts. From these experiences I have come to understand that pugilism is the art of grappling to uproot (yin/soft) and striking to unstructure (yang/hard) an opponent while having the ability to withstand the same from an opponent without debilitation. Forms, especially the Fast (Combat Speed) Forms are like Shadowboxing. Shadowboxing is the cultivation of strategy, tactics and techniques that will be appropriately executed in sparring or combat. The way one Shadowboxes is the way one fights and as I have said my original form did not meet that standard. For the Wu Box Style Fast Round Form taught to Westerners the Wu Masters were Wu Kung Yi and Wu Kung T'sao who were taught by Yang Shou Hou a master of Chen and Yang small frame forms. He even evolved a form that greatly resembles a Westerners sense of Boxing as there is seldom a fixed stationary stance without a shuffle step to and fro; moreover, there is hardly a movement that does not involve the spiraling nature of silk-reeling. There is also a clear depiction of the 13 methods and the seven stars. Nothing like this is depicted in the standardized form I learned from an Asian lineage association.
My presentation of the fast form is began with the Wu "Box Style" Fast Round form commonly seen in Youtube presentations (please review my favorites) and as such would not stand up to the rigorous applications found in T'ui Shou and San Shou practicum's. Notice that the addtional movements fit into the form without breaking the structure of the standardized form. Moreover, notice that Bagua, Xingyi and Taiji movements seem to flow well together very well. The video shows the foundational postures and movements that mut bemastered in order to execute this form.
Wu Mengxia's annotations on the Nine Pugilistic Songs of Yang Family Taiji Quan is the best guide for the cultivation martial aspects of Taiji Quan after on has studied and internalized the treatise of Master's Chen, Feng, Wang and Li.
The following are some of the wisdoms annotated by Wu and myself regarding the cultivation of Pugilistic Taiji. The Advanced Wu Style Fast Round Form is guided by these wisdoms and the study of Wu Jian Quan and Yang Shou Hou disciple presentations of the Fast Round Form and the Yang Small Frame Forms. When compared to the standardized form this form is superior as a shadowboxing tool that could be used to cultivate the 13 Methods and Seven Stars into an applicative fighting method for three of the four phases of combat: Stand-up, Clinch and Takedown. If performed correctly it will aid in the prevention of an opponent bringing the engagement to the ground phase of combat.
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