Interview with Grandmaster Ma Hong

Interview with Grandmaster Ma Hong held in Mudanjiang, China 8-8-2007 by Grandmaster Kong Mien Ho and Grandmaster Yaron Benyamini

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Taiji
• Chen
• Ma
• Hong

[curtrod]

@amirbinyamini ma hong is a great master and I do not appreciate being called full of crap because I understand that calling oneself grandmaster IS being FULL OF CRAP!, what are you then amirbinyamini?, I was trying to say that sitting next to a man who could call himself grandmaster and putting yourself at HIS level is arrogant and ignorant, being respectful to your teacher is important, or do you call yourself 'the holy prophet amirbinyamini'?, OF COURSE NOT, so, go bugger yourself!

[amirbinyamini]

@curtrod

man you are so full of crap !!! stop wory about those unimportent things and try to learn,belive me the titles are not important as the knowladge those pepole have...no metter what belt he wear what title he have the things he know are rare and precioust, try be less judgemental and mybe you will learn a few things !

[wagfinpis]

focus deeply use your heart and mind (yi)

use a real intention (yi)

do not neglect even the smallest detail of the form, discover it's full meaning.

[wagfinpis]

@neko6 every one is a master to day. it seems to be more of an honorary title in many cases, or to get students like some sort of minimal accreditation for an experienced instructor. their are thousands of tai chi masters yet when have you ever seen one proficient tai chi practitioner use a 13 postures style system in any free fighting demonstrationl. i respect the arts and its custodians but i have only ever heard of masters of tai chi and have never even seen one proficient practitioner.

[imbrd]

i mean if u ask a layman what is relax they can't describe or even simulate it as profoundly & accurately if at all as a high level taiji master thus there is something called a difference in understanding- mor accurately, a lack of basic understandings.

[imbrd]

underdeveloped very beginner students. Its like trying to explain some abstract advanced multivariable calculus concept to an elementary student. Each & every concept of calculus has been developed, theorized, proved, practiced, ingrained & pondered for many years in order to achieve that level of understanding&development. thus to dumb down an advanced concept to 1 whom lacks basic understanding requires further disertation & explanation to contextualize&situate the concepts

[imbrd]

translation is 10% word to word 90% context especially in chinese. Chinese is famous for 4 letter phrase/words each of which has a profuse meaning coming from stories, poems, histories, contexts etc. So translation between a super high level & super advanced language that has been cultivated for many thousands years combined w/ the master's own gained wisdom to enunciate those phrases obviously implies a great amount of contextual references which require greater words not fewer for those

[shlsyk]

dont give us that big bull shxt.

Translation is translation. u translate what you hear.

unless he is better than his own teacher.

sitting right next to a great tai chi teacher explaining in mandarin, and then u translate it into something else and add shxt in it. that is typical foreigners bull shxt

[neko6]

The translator is his student, he probably understands what the master means with little words, then explains it thoroughly.

[NickHaterr]

Yaron Benyamini is my teacher. Really.