Shrewsbury
Orange Belt
Iwth all do respects I have studied juijitsu to agreat extent, as well as Okinawa, Japanese, American, chinese external and internal gung fu. To claim any style lacks anything is to not have studied in depth in the style. CMA's has numerous grappling, wrestling, and juijitsu style arts, in fact mos arts are born of chinese influence.
sure you may have to train long to be good at the internal arts, and you can be good faster with external arts, such as juijitsu, but by age 60 (since that age was mentioned) your external will be long on their way out. speed, strength, endurance, and power will be a thing of your youth, but the internals work with out all these physical limitations and will continue to work.
to state tai chi is ineffective as a combat art is to never have seen people who can use it, and yes I will agree most people can not, or if they do it is used hard like karate or gung fu, but the internals are meant to be effortless. being fast big and strong only lasts so long, effortlessness can last forever.
sure you may have to train long to be good at the internal arts, and you can be good faster with external arts, such as juijitsu, but by age 60 (since that age was mentioned) your external will be long on their way out. speed, strength, endurance, and power will be a thing of your youth, but the internals work with out all these physical limitations and will continue to work.
to state tai chi is ineffective as a combat art is to never have seen people who can use it, and yes I will agree most people can not, or if they do it is used hard like karate or gung fu, but the internals are meant to be effortless. being fast big and strong only lasts so long, effortlessness can last forever.