He wasn't a good representative of taijiquan, as in Chen taijiquan we would clinch and then throw if rushed like that. Chen taijiquan is very big on wrestling.
His footwork moved first back then at an angle causing his fall but is it possible the punch also made him fall sure why not or visa versa point is we see this same type in mma ring fights which the OP doesn't seem to point out. So then it goes back to OK if this happens in pro fights people slipping or getting punched like this does that mean a.pro fighters suck b.this guy is good or c. The better regardless of style fighter won.
No effect at all fanboy
As a CMA guy, my answer will be it's important for any CMA guy to develop
No one gives a **** about it now apart from the op. similiar things were said in 73 that Kung fu was so superior and other traditional arts will die out. It was said again 93 with nonsense like oh karate will soon be extinct now or no one will bother to train striking anymore but guess what karates still going just as strong as ever. Silly little matches being made by some spoiled rich kid in china will make 0 difference to anything. Simply no one cares. The people training in Chinese martial arts will continue to do so and people who are interested in them will still join. Quite honestly I bet barely anyone's even heard about this nonsense in the non martial art world
Oh it's going to have a really big effect. For me it's going to make it more difficult for me to attract people who are interested in martial arts. On the good side, it's going to clean house for CMAs in the long run. I think the more fake CMA masters give bad impressions the more likely the real CMA practitioners who train with a fighting focus will start to appear.
That is true. I really don't think to many people really give a **** about this in China as well.
Of course they don't. The only ones who actually care are the mma fanboys who want to rub it in other people's faces about how great mma is and yeah sure mmas good but it's not the be all and end all either. Arts like tai chi and Kung fu or whatever have been around thousands of years and still going strong even with all the advanced knowledge of martial arts. Why can't both just exist and people be happy with that. Would people like the op rather all other martial arts die out and then there's only mma left and that means less and less would train martial arts because a lot of people who train different styles simply don't want to do that kind of thing.
I personally like students who don't think Taijiquan is good for self defense, I think most Taijiquan people are happy that people think Taijiquan is just some dance devoid of martial arts.
The MMA guy understood the "run down" strategy very well.
Backpedaling for more than a couple of steps is just bad footwork and when people do it, they usually fall down or get hit with something that easily knocks them down because their feet were in the worse possible position to resist the imbalance caused by the punch. Wing practitioners often knock their opponents over when their opponent starts backpedals longer than they should.
A very valid and realistic observation about Taijiquan. Even to day I hear people including Chinese refer to it as "the thing old people do."
The MMA guy understood who he was facing had no clue what he was doing and he took advantage of that.
The first day that I started my Taiji class in Austin Community College, I started with
My first class was the first 3 steps in Chen Laojia
