Xue Sheng
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Can anyone else elaborate on how their training and the actuality matched up?
After many years in security and some of that in hospitals (emergency rooms) and one with a Mental Health and Detox Unit I sadly can say yes I can.
Since all confrontations were either in Uniform or in a sport coat it was noting like how I was training at the time but I was surprised at how much of my taiji rooting, absorb and redirect worked and that was followed by Qinna or just me simply holding the person down until they calmed down. But then most confrontations were avoided by Wordfu (happily). I can only remember one time where I ever took any type of stance and that was more to slow the person down (Bleeding Heroin addict) because I did not want to touch them to be honest. And it did stop them long enough (they were charging at me) and make them think (surprisingly) and stop and revert to screaming insults at me, which I much preferred. Later however it got nasty but at least I have gloves on by then and that is where the rooting and redirection of force came in very handy.
In that situation Taiji works much better than say Xingyiquan only because Xingyi tends to be very aggressive and is MUCH more likely to get you sued. But then I had not trained much Xingyi t that time. I did recently find out while working with some Wing Chun people that almost all of my defense is form Taiji and the majority of my attacks are Xingyiquan. Although as of today I am not sure if my responses to attack were not to some extent Sanda.