How to Use Tai Chi in a fight

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Uploaded by on Jun 16, 2007

Scott P. Phillips demonstrates how to use taijiquan in a fight. Spirit (shen) it the key! Check us out at our blog "Weakness with a Twist"
http://northstarmartialarts.com/blog1
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  • Most TMA are also effective, and that's usually a matter of how they are trained , you may have your own opinions on that, okay. But a good master of any martial art that he has trained in to fight with, will be able to fight. I have seen taiji guys win sanda tournaments. I'll bring out the age old adage, it's not the style, it's the practitioner.

    Individual > Training > Style.

  • @buddy2000529 Hi there, I know people like to argue about this all the time but hold on for a second. The problem with martial arts is that they work! They all work. The problems arise because a particular mindset becomes too rigid. The ability to spontaneously change the game being played is the most potent mojo a martial artist can have. Your argument is a good one, but it also holds for theatrical, film and stage combat styles.

  • Those who know do not talk.

  • @tantalon111 Yes, this is an important adage that refers to the problem that in the kinethstetic realm experience trumps ideas. Understanding follows from experience. But none of that is an argument for being inarticulate. Go on, hit the bag, get your feelings into words!

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  • @buddy2000529 I'd like to argue your point a little. Not that the practitioner doesn't matter, but that his training matters more. To me it is Training>Individual>Style. You could have a fighter with the most potential in the world, but if you only teach him poorly, he still won't be able to contend with even an average fighter who has been trained very well.

  • Is that Pau Gasol?

  • haha, nice...

  • It looks easy when Hogan Does it !

  • @alexfpower Alex, please re-write this and re-post! I think you have a great sense of humor but I really need to keep my video's comments clean of untoward language because kiddies read this stuff. And FYI just because your MASTER can break a brick with his CHI, does not mean he can rip a modern thick cotton nylon re-enforced t-shirt from the gap! You could hang a grand piano off of that thing!

  • @alexfpower i agree with you

  • @ogscott *Cough* H is the eight letter.

  • lol he can't even rip his own shirt off

  • what happend with this guy can't broke even a shirt -_-

  • Well, he did finish them all ¿didn´t he?

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