Tai Chi,good self-defense art or not?

[ZillaBilla]

Todays artist are far superior to any lineage head of old because these concepts are public knowlege not secret schools.

Of course your entitled to your opinion, but I can gurantee you that what you just said is rubbish, and you will hear the same thing from most, if not all lineage holders and in-door practitioners of internal arts. However, this does not mean your statement does not apply to external arts, in fact, I would say in some cases it applies perfectly.

[academian]

Of course your entitled to your opinion, but I can gurantee you that what you just said is rubbish, and you will hear the same thing from most, if not all lineage holders and in-door practitioners of internal arts. However, this does not mean your statement does not apply to external arts, in fact, I would say in some cases it applies perfectly.

I should have been more specific I was talking about External arts As far as internal arts go it takes years and years and years to develop chi so the older people would be far superior. Although there are short cuts

[academian]

Size and Color Test

[keskilinja]

Today's Tai Chi is 99% total bullshit... So finding a good teacher is hard... And even harder is to get him teach you...

[academian]

Today's Tai Chi is 99% total bullshit... So finding a good teacher is hard... And even harder is to get him teach you...

You might want to check the yellow pages

[jubaji]

Today's Tai Chi is 99% total bullshit... ...

How'd you come up with that %?

[Hikage]

How'd you come up with that %?

I'm curious as to what he gets from the other 1% that he feels is worth honoring.

-Hikage

[keskilinja]

My style isn't Tai Chi... And 99% isn't right number, but what I mean to say there is a lot of bs... In original Tai Chi there is a lot more than just health-breathing-exercises...Sorry... My English isn't perfect...

[EmptyneSs]

http://www.dotaichi.com/Articles/TaiChiSword.html

[SimonM]

did Dim Mak kills It is illegal to kill in competition. .

And Dim Mak is just a Chinese legend that some less scrupulous IMA flavoured McDojo practicioners claim to teach in order to give themselves some street cred. You want to learn to kill with your hands? Learn to fight REALLY DIRTY and then condition your hands for a period of a few years and you might learn how. But it has nothing to do with Chi meridians or any of that crap.

[Garland]

who needs to condition their hands???
don't need hard hands to break soft spots...throat, eyes...fish-hooking, neck cranks, chokes, ah.....groin shots, liver shots...solar plexus shots when their already sucking wind in the fetal position with your kicks...
improvised weapons....using gravity and hard surfaces to your advantages...
all these things work.

[academian]

And Dim Mak is just a Chinese legend that some less scrupulous IMA flavoured McDojo practicioners claim to teach in order to give themselves some street cred. You want to learn to kill with your hands? Learn to fight REALLY DIRTY and then condition your hands for a period of a few years and you might learn how. But it has nothing to do with Chi meridians or any of that crap.

Well I can see you are clueless.

[academian]

And Dim Mak is just a Chinese legend that some less scrupulous IMA flavoured McDojo practicioners claim to teach in order to give themselves some street cred. You want to learn to kill with your hands? Learn to fight REALLY DIRTY and then condition your hands for a period of a few years and you might learn how. But it has nothing to do with Chi meridians or any of that crap.

They teach it at Berkley University. So why don't you go takes some classes before you show everyone how uninformed that you are????????

[SimonM]

So they teach lots of stupid crap at Berkley

I know of a guy who got a BA in Hermetic Magic from UC Berkley. Does that mean Hermetic Magic works too?

[SimonM]

Well I can see you are clueless.

And what makes you say a stupid thing like that? The fact that I am not impressed by your claims to be a great and high mighty board breaker who knows the secret delayed death touch? Watch less TV dumbass.