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Originally Posted by FoolsTP
yeah the art i do is kind of an amalgam of a bunch of chinese arts and i think my teachers teacher called it closed crane and my teacher added some things to it and called it zhang tao or something. we do everything single weighted and we use sidecats a lot. if you guys want names and stuff i can give you them i just can't think of them offhand. i think i remember my teachers teacher was pete robinsons partner and pete robinson studied with what's his name, short little chinese mantis (i think) guy that's really well known. gen fu marc? (sorry about the spelling). my teachers teacher introduced the single weighted stepping and movement in the 70s in the US but no one liked it. i don't think tai chi was brought into the US until later. anyway if you guys want clarification on anything i can get it but i'm just trying to remember stuff i remember off the top of my head.
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Double weighting is never acceptable in any of the internal arts. The maxim that when one part of the body moves your entire body moves and when one part stops the entire body stops is another essential component that separates the internal arts from the external ones. It sounds like you're doing a variation of Wah Lum/Northern Mantis. Who first brought many of the arts to the USA is up for debate but I've studied with several families since the early 60's and the Reeder style came to the US in the 50's, the internal arts didn't start catching on with the masses until the 70's though.