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- Mon Jun 23, 2008 1:42 pm
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: Info on Yangshi Taiji Dao
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14779
The current issue of “T’ai Chi” magazine (Vol. 32, No. 3) has a good article on Taiji dao, by Zhang Yun. Although a Wu stylist, his information specifically applies to both Yang and Wu styles and their version of the dao with the s-shaped guard and ring pommel. He gives the Chinese characters for 32...
- Mon Apr 21, 2008 11:42 am
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: Listening
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11235
In the context of martial arts the study may not be relevant. As the article state: "Most researchers investigate what happens when people have to decide immediately, typically as a rapid response to an event in our environment. Here we were focusing on the more interesting decisions that are made i...
- Fri Apr 18, 2008 1:57 pm
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: Listening
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11235
Seven seconds is an extremely long time! A common method for measuring reaction time (often used at science museums in interactive children’s displays) is to have a dropping ruler that a person grabs as soon as they realize it has begun to drop (the release is usually initiated in a manner that cann...
- Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:56 pm
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: 37 Form Discussion
- Replies: 28
- Views: 43724
Re: This Vs. That
I studied in both Zheng Manqing's lineage with his senior student T.T. Liang & with William C.C. Chen, Robert Smith & others briefly in while I was in Taiwan. I also studied with Wang Yennien who is my principle teacher. From both sides I heard students adamantly proclaim thier teacher beat the oth...
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 4:53 pm
- Forum: Chinese Swordsmanship
- Topic: The Sworsdmanship Festival - After Action Review
- Replies: 10
- Views: 17213
Scott, thanks for the link. From watching the clip I would guess that the rules specify only the torso as a legal target (no leg, arm, or head strikes allowed?). Still dangerous, but with head and hand protection to guard against accidents as well as a chest protector to protect the legal target, pe...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 11:53 am
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: An aspect of fangsong.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 32988
Hmm, It seems like people had misunderstood me. I thought that I had mentioned that I essentially agreed with what Roland posted, and that I was going to focus primarily on the physical aspects of this training, and that training is improved and progresses faster with the emphasis on fangsong and ot...
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:16 am
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: An aspect of fangsong.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 32988
OK Roland, this is very similar to how I was taught. The sensations of fatigue or pain in the muscles is an indication that those muscles are being used improperly for what we desire, and the muscles that continue holding up the posture (without pain or fatigue) when we focus on relaxing those muscl...
- Wed Aug 08, 2007 2:58 pm
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: An aspect of fangsong.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 32988
Trevor, Thanks for the link. That explanation seems much more authoritative and includes details that I was not aware of. I am not knowledgeable enough to be able to speculate about the contributions of tendons, ligaments, fascia, etc. Too bad the link did not address these physiological aspects of ...
- Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:00 pm
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: An aspect of fangsong.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 32988
I am somewhat reluctant to post my ideas on this topic because I am not a physiologist and I essentially put the following together on my own rather that hearing them from an authoritative source, both of which may lead to inaccuracies. But I think that this topic is important for internal style mar...
- Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:57 am
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: Executioner's sword
- Replies: 9
- Views: 52364
Another dao in use for beheading is shown in a "tourist photo" at this site:
http://www.teleguam.net/~ewebpro/galler ... ina-01.htm
Shanghai? ca. early 1900s?
Dan
http://www.teleguam.net/~ewebpro/galler ... ina-01.htm
Shanghai? ca. early 1900s?
Dan
- Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:14 am
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: Spear shaft material/dimensions
- Replies: 15
- Views: 31933
- Tue Apr 10, 2007 3:45 pm
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: "Mao" spearhead with oblique steel insert
- Replies: 27
- Views: 39071
Scott, Sorry for the late reply, but I have been away for three weeks. Thanks for the offer to attend your test cutting training. If it happens on a Sat. or Sun. afternoon, then it would be nice to try and attend. I could drive up in the morning and back in the evening (it takes roughly 5 hours trav...
- Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:01 am
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: "Mao" spearhead with oblique steel insert
- Replies: 27
- Views: 39071
leaf shaped qiang
You make good points, Scott, and since I have not done test cutting (and don’t even know of anyone doing test cutting with a spear), I trust your experience. Even without the precise control needed to cut with the edge of a spear point, I would think that the “gashing” with the metal edge would stil...
- Wed Mar 14, 2007 10:46 am
- Forum: Chinese Historical Arms
- Topic: "Mao" spearhead with oblique steel insert
- Replies: 27
- Views: 39071
While most movements that use a slashing motion in forms are probably intended as deflections with the spear shaft, I would not be too quick to rule out the possibility for slashing movements with the spear point. For one thing, the orientation of the edge of the spear point is not too difficult to ...
- Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:07 pm
- Forum: General Taiji Quan Discussion
- Topic: Qi Dispersion
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10705
I have not posted on this forum previously (I have been a member almost from the start) because others have usually addressed subjects satisfactorily and I did not feel that I had much additional to contribute. But there are several comments that I could add to this topic. First, it is my understand...