Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
Original post
(background if anyone is interested)
http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46684
The decision has been made I have decided to train Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu or Nanshin Shadow Style possibly Brazilian Ninjitsu no wait I got it Tae-Kwon-Leep
Ok back to reality, the decision has been made as to whether or not I will train Xingyi or Sanda
My Xingyi sifu is going to have to change the schedule again, he was honestly looking for a time that I could make it but in reality it comes down to I was only able to make on the day I was going. He was considering not changing it due to this but out of his current 8 Xingyi students I was the only one that could not make it any other day and 6 out of the 8 could not make it on the day it is currently on now that winter is over, so it will change. But to be honest I was leaning towards Sanda anyway. I love Xingyi but the more I have been thinking about it Sanda actually complements my Taiji in a way I feel my training needs to go. And being a dinosaur in MA I really appreciate the hard and rather traditional training, even though Sanda is not considered a traditional CMA
So it appears that I will be focusing on Sanda. However I think that after this hiatus I am going to ask my sifu if we cannot start from scratch or at least close to it so I can get back to the basics (influence from pstarr’s book, a lot of influence actually with this decision and I keep hearing my Jujitsu Sensei voice in my noggin telling me “There is strength in basics”. And of course I will train Yang style taiji, been doing it to long to stop actually.
However I have also decided that I really REALLY miss Chen style Taiji and I have started working on Chen Zhenglei’s 18 form, actually I was trying to get my laojia yilu back but it was just a tad bit overwhelming so I turned to the 18 which I studied briefly a few months ago. After I get the 18 down I will contact the group that is near me that trains with Zhenglei and see if they will help me correct the form.
And then (surprisingly) after I started working on the 18 I found that there is a member of the Chen family living and teaching in Beijing and he is taking students. I still have to contact him so see if he will meet with me the next time I am there, it looks promising. And from what I have found out, he teaches Chen with the martial arts VERY intact. And since as exile once called me a “Martial arts house-o-pain maniac” this works for me. (actually I ended up discovering this Chen family member based on a discussion with flying crane about another Chen teacher in Beijing “Feng Zhiqiang”
I will also likely contact Zhenglei the next time he is in the area to see if I can join his group here so I can train here in the US since I am here more than I am in Beijing.
What does this mean, well for one I need to REALLY work on my Mandarin; neither of the Chen family people I am going to contact speaks much if any English.
Also this means I will be training Yang style, which I have been training for over 10 years and I will be starting my Chen training again after over 10 years off and of course SANDA. And I am smarter this time, I will not tell my Sanda sifu about Chen, just yet.
But during this time I have become VERY interested in Systema Breath training so I am looking into that as well. Something else that I feel gets me closer to where I feel I need to be. And after over 30 years of training it is kind of nice to have this whole thing appear to be coming together...AGAIN.
And I need to make a correction to one of my post, not sure which one, but the next stage of Sanda training is not going to be Qinna, it is more likely Shuaijiao …oooooh this is going to hurt :uhyeah:
(background if anyone is interested)
http://www.martialtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46684
The decision has been made I have decided to train Hiten Mitsurugi Ryu or Nanshin Shadow Style possibly Brazilian Ninjitsu no wait I got it Tae-Kwon-Leep
Ok back to reality, the decision has been made as to whether or not I will train Xingyi or Sanda
My Xingyi sifu is going to have to change the schedule again, he was honestly looking for a time that I could make it but in reality it comes down to I was only able to make on the day I was going. He was considering not changing it due to this but out of his current 8 Xingyi students I was the only one that could not make it any other day and 6 out of the 8 could not make it on the day it is currently on now that winter is over, so it will change. But to be honest I was leaning towards Sanda anyway. I love Xingyi but the more I have been thinking about it Sanda actually complements my Taiji in a way I feel my training needs to go. And being a dinosaur in MA I really appreciate the hard and rather traditional training, even though Sanda is not considered a traditional CMA
So it appears that I will be focusing on Sanda. However I think that after this hiatus I am going to ask my sifu if we cannot start from scratch or at least close to it so I can get back to the basics (influence from pstarr’s book, a lot of influence actually with this decision and I keep hearing my Jujitsu Sensei voice in my noggin telling me “There is strength in basics”
. And of course I will train Yang style taiji, been doing it to long to stop actually.However I have also decided that I really REALLY miss Chen style Taiji and I have started working on Chen Zhenglei’s 18 form, actually I was trying to get my laojia yilu back but it was just a tad bit overwhelming so I turned to the 18 which I studied briefly a few months ago. After I get the 18 down I will contact the group that is near me that trains with Zhenglei and see if they will help me correct the form.
And then (surprisingly) after I started working on the 18 I found that there is a member of the Chen family living and teaching in Beijing and he is taking students. I still have to contact him so see if he will meet with me the next time I am there, it looks promising. And from what I have found out, he teaches Chen with the martial arts VERY intact. And since as exile once called me a “Martial arts house-o-pain maniac” this works for me. (actually I ended up discovering this Chen family member based on a discussion with flying crane about another Chen teacher in Beijing “Feng Zhiqiang”
I will also likely contact Zhenglei the next time he is in the area to see if I can join his group here so I can train here in the US since I am here more than I am in Beijing.
What does this mean, well for one I need to REALLY work on my Mandarin; neither of the Chen family people I am going to contact speaks much if any English.
Also this means I will be training Yang style, which I have been training for over 10 years and I will be starting my Chen training again after over 10 years off and of course SANDA. And I am smarter this time, I will not tell my Sanda sifu about Chen, just yet.
But during this time I have become VERY interested in Systema Breath training so I am looking into that as well. Something else that I feel gets me closer to where I feel I need to be. And after over 30 years of training it is kind of nice to have this whole thing appear to be coming together...AGAIN.
And I need to make a correction to one of my post, not sure which one, but the next stage of Sanda training is not going to be Qinna, it is more likely Shuaijiao …oooooh this is going to hurt :uhyeah:
