Yiquan intensive course 2008 - 4th section

From Yiquan Academy 2008 summer intensive courses.
4th section of basic program
http://www.yiquan.academy.eu
http://www.yiquan.pl

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Sports

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• yiquan
• dachengquan
• academy
• intensive
• beginners
• course
• zhan
• zhuang
• shi
• li
• fa
• tui
• shou
• san

[DrVoltage1]

My mistake, full-contact was definately not the right term there. Seeing the push to the wall/elbow made it seem more contact, but when I review it it seems pretty light. Also it being basic would make a difference. I've been researching Yiquan more, and it still shows a lack of facial protection from chinese professionals. It seems like the "Judo" of striking...control of momentum of the opponent. Good idea, just needs more defense. Still not seeing striking power though

[dacheng]

@DrVoltage1 Depends on situation to which you want to relate this. Of course in a lot situations it needs to be adapted. And is some situations it is actually extremely good way. But yiquan is adaptable - this is kind of quite basic principle. Just need of more exposition to different context and it adapts.

[dacheng]

But quite often, at some stage, I need to force students to put LESS attention to protecting face, because if they think to much about tight guard, they loose opportunity of working on skills related to contact of arms which can happen during exchange of attacking techniques. Too much stress on protecting face then means loosing opportunity of improving some other skills. Which doesn't mean that focus on protecting face is no important. This is shouldn't be too much simplified.

[dacheng]

And as for Chinese professionals, people like Yao brothers, Cui Ruibin or Liu Pulei had quite many contacts and trials with boxers, kick boxers, muay thai people. Better not to judge them without having experiencing contact with them personally. Myself, apart from being on receiving end, I actually saw people who were introduced to me as top Japanese shoot wrestling fighthers, spinning 180 degrees around vertical axis, after contact of their arms with Yao's.

[dacheng]

But well, you can also think about some boxing champions, who didn't keep guard and from point of views of beginning boxing they were just making mistake after mistake, but opponent didn't have a chance against them. Better to have bigger picture beffore evaluating someone.

[DopoNotte]

@kowloom This is in the UFC etc. Yiquan comes out in the form of Xingyiquan, which I have seen used, affectively I might add, in a UFC fight.

[kowloom]

I would like to see this in UFC.

[DrVoltage1]

@dacheng Yeah that is totally understandable in the teaching perspective. Theres alot that goes into that aspect.

[dacheng]

Would be nice if not just people with injuries would try internal arts, but fighters for enhancing their fighting abilities and skills. And of course not necessarily taking the whole classical stuff, but there is a lot of inspiring things which can be absorbed.

[DrVoltage1]

@dacheng Internal arts are amazing for people with injuries. A fellow judoka broke his shoulder in a competition, and was training it back into shape with the help of tai chi. I've trained with people in my MMA class that have muscular growth problems, where they have bad muscle structure developement too. It all depends on the person and how hard they are willing to try.