windwalker099
Purple Belt
- Joined
- Nov 8, 2022
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Mine was accidental, I was not looking for a Yang style teacher. My teacher was a student of Tung Ying Chieh....
Mine was by a suggestion from a friend, and looking for a way to deepen my understanding of CMA as applied to fighting...
The teacher at the time, Sam Kaikina, was known as a fighter in HI back in the day..
He learned from "Tung HuLing "who taught in Hi...
Interesting method...not the one I was looking for...
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Would continue to practice taiji as an adjunct to my other CMA practice's before before dropping them after meeting my last tai chi teacher..
reading the post, don't feel the choice is between "soft and hard" as some might say..
More about "Change and emptiness" or as some might say "open, close, empty and full,"