Taiji Quan for Self Defense

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If some one makes a claim..

Wouldn't most people want to "see" the "real"
To understand why they should buy a book ?
The book is intended to help people who are interested to go in the right direction. At the end is just a book. Without a certain martial experience and inteligence many will not understand it. Who thinks that the subjects covered are not interesting for him, he should not but the book. However, IMHO, many will understand it only after few years after reading it.
 
If some one makes a claim..

Wouldn't most people want to "see" the "real"
To understand why they should buy a book ?Per
I was just about to post this.

Per Igor Rakar, "some videos from our training group practice..."

Samoobramba
Jan 13, 2017

Combat Flow - Masters Practice - Free Flow Igor, Simon and Denis - 12th January 2017


Guided Chaos vidoes...




 
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Do you think you may have better market if you publish video instead?

I believe your book ask for $30. Most of the DVD can ask for $45 or even more.
Could be. But the book can cover maybe more topics than a video. Let say the a book is a more traditional way.
It is not cheap. However Amazon takes 2/3 of the price. But IMHO the informations inside justify the price of the book compared to other books.
 
1) Given that Wang Fengming teaches the Chen style, I doubt his book is better.
2) Cheng Man Ching is one of the last teachers that taught fighting. But he never taught that in public.
3) However, my jurnery last all my life in in learn whatever I can. So I will also get the Wang Fengming's book to see what is about. My IMA & Tai Chi book collection has probably more than 1000 titles
I've been doing tai chi for a while and I have looked around at a great number of masters and different styles of tai chi. As a result I no longer believe Tai chi is "lost" or "difficult to learn". I have, however, met a large number of people that think exactly like you do about other styles of Tai Chi. You should not be so closed minded as to believe such things like "CMC was one of the last teachers that taught fighting".

I have also had the opportunity to experience that most of the time, people will "fit" a certain master or style moreso than someone else. If you find a master you get along with it is often more valuable than learning from a "better" master that you do not get along with very well. Try to have a more open mind, there is a wild and beautiful world of Tai Chi waiting for everyone :)
 
I've been doing tai chi for a while and I have looked around at a great number of masters and different styles of tai chi. As a result I no longer believe Tai chi is "lost" or "difficult to learn". I have, however, met a large number of people that think exactly like you do about other styles of Tai Chi. You should not be so closed minded as to believe such things like "CMC was one of the last teachers that taught fighting".

I have also had the opportunity to experience that most of the time, people will "fit" a certain master or style moreso than someone else. If you find a master you get along with it is often more valuable than learning from a "better" master that you do not get along with very well. Try to have a more open mind, there is a wild and beautiful world of Tai Chi waiting for everyone :)
Seems we disagree. You like the Chen stale, I don't like it. I like CMC, Ylu don't like it.
The problem is that the today world of Tai Chi is lacking of basic knowledge and because that the reputation of Tai Chi is very bad.
 
I was just about to post this.

Per Igor Rakar, "some videos from our training group practice..."

Samoobramba

Guided Chaos vidoes...
I didn't specified every source explicitely becouse the transmission of information was mostly lost. I made only the summary, that the real Tai Chi survived only in some old Tai Chi lines that come from the time when Tai Chi was taught at the Imperial Palace (by Yang Lu Chan amd Yang Ban Hou) and Tai Chi of some most advanced Cheng Man Ching's students (mainly from Taiwan and Malaysia). However we are talking about 5 such cases, that I tried to compare and reconstruct as I could. Mainly, as I said, tha Tai Chi knowledge was lost.
The geinious of John Perkins found traces of the real Tai Chi in the Waysun Liao teaching and whit his previous combat knowledge and experienced made his own fighting methods and exercises. However this is one of the closest, if not the closest, example of the real Tai Chi.
 
The problem is that the today world of Tai Chi is lacking of basic knowledge and because that the reputation of Tai Chi is very bad.

Thanks for taking time in answering questions. 👍
Would disagree on some of the basic premises of your introduction.
good luck with the book....☯️

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Wondering about the cover art of Zheng Manqing.
Have also done similar illustrations for those I work with to explain some of the concepts they're working on.

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Wondering what your point was, if there was one 🙂

While looking the same it might based on different concepts.
No need to reply if it's not convenient or explained in the book...
asked out of curiosity.
 
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As I suspected, you would not answer the questions I asked...... that in itself is an answer...... its all just a bunch of sales and wuxia isn't it....

Well Grandmaster.......have a nice day
I realy don't anderstand what do you want that I answer. I think that I answered to all you questions.
 
Thanks for taking time in answering questions. 👍
Would disagree on some of the basic premises of your introduction.
good luck with the book....☯️

book2-cover-jpg.31947


Wondering about the cover art of Zheng Manqing.
Have also done similar illustrations for those I work with to explain some of the concepts they're working on.

img_1815.jpg



Wondering what your point was, if there was one 🙂

While looking the same it might based on different concepts.
No need to reply if it's not convenient or explained in the book...
asked out of curiosity.
The two circles on the CMC's picture on the book's cover are the Horizontal and the Vertical circle of the "8 Hands Energies". The arrows are related to the "5 Steps". That are concepts explained in the book.
 
I realy don't anderstand what do you want that I answer. I think that I answered to all you questions.
Answering the question would go to your credibility.... right now, as far as I am concerned, you have none.....as far as I know you studied with an actual shifu for a couple minutes and the rest was video, and reading books, and now you write a book about the "Real" taijiquan...when as far as I know, you never studied it....not all that hard to understand really.......
 
Answering the question would go to your credibility.... right now, as far as I am concerned, you have none.....as far as I know you studied with an actual shifu for a couple minutes and the rest was video, and reading books, and now you write a book about the "Real" taijiquan...when as far as I know, you never studied it....not all that hard to understand really.......
Some actually have talent.
The great Jigiro Kano began studying various Jujutsu styles at age 18, when he was 22 he established his Kodokan/Judo
 
Answering the question would go to your credibility.... right now, as far as I am concerned, you have none.....as far as I know you studied with an actual shifu for a couple minutes and the rest was video, and reading books, and now you write a book about the "Real" taijiquan...when as far as I know, you never studied it....not all that hard to understand really.......
Seems you realy don't understand what is all about. I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to get that informations and not you sad that 30 USD is a lot??? And Amazon teke 2/3 of the income!!! However as I sad, there is no need to buy the book. Who will need it will buy it. It will save a lot of time and money.
I never refused to touch hands with anybody. I live in Slovenia and if you come by you are welcome.
 
Some actually have talent.
The great Jigiro Kano began studying various Jujutsu styles at age 18, when he was 22 he established his Kodokan/Judo
I studied with different masters. I never took the discipleship. I felt that that would be an obstacle fot me to train with other masters. However many time I paid for the indoor knowledge they gave me. Some of the said that if I will teach their method that have mention them as my teachers, some said that don't tell nobody that they sold me the secret informations reserved for the disciples. At the end of the journey the path is not important, but only the result.
 
I studied with different masters. I never took the discipleship. I felt that that would be an obstacle fot me to train with other masters. However many time I paid for the indoor knowledge they gave me. Some of the said that if I will teach their method that have mention them as my teachers, some said that don't tell nobody that they sold me the secret informations reserved for the disciples. At the end of the journey the path is not important, but only the result.
Whatever the effort you’ve put in equal gain will come.
Whether they like it or not, the critics of you will keep reading books :)

The journey and the end, I’d say that it’s the journey that’s matter, the results, positive as well as negative keep setting the path, in the end there’s no end.
 
Whatever the effort you’ve put in equal gain will come.
Whether they like it or not, the critics of you will keep reading books :)

The journey and the end, I’d say that it’s the journey that’s matter, the results, positive as well as negative keep setting the path, in the end there’s no end.
Because that there is so many BS in today Taijiquan.
 
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