This is a description of the training at Wudang quan yuan in Lucca, Italy, where Sun Lutang taijiquan is trained in the Fu Zhensong recension. Is Taiji a fighting art, as its name says? Not always, we know. to be a combat art as in origin it needs a background of practice with a lot of two man work. Sun shi taiji can provide this background as you can see in this video for the dense content of xingyi, taiji and bagua embedded in it.
No exercise by itself is resolutive or has an absolute vale. This is impoissible. So it is for this two man exercise, it is only training, i. e. showing as some techniques in the form function. Anyway there is some good technique inside it and it provides a base for single technique training and two man contact. It is the same training way as Xingyi for instance, and we do pushing hands and fighting hands (tui-san) too.
asiaticus1 2 years ago