Intermediate Yiquan 5: The Ratio Problem
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- čas přidán 18. 04. 2024
- Join me as I continue to share my research and practice in the Chinese martial art of Yiquan.
Wang Xiangzhai wanted to solve the problem of why so few people in Chinese martial arts achieved the real thing, despite there being so many practitioners overall. This is known as 'the ratio problem', and Yiquan was designed to try and solve this.
Thank you for sharing so much of your journey! This is a very insightful series.🙏🏻
I like this discussion
Let me quote from your lecture.
"There are a tiny handful people that have achieved the true essense in any generation, and then there is the rest, and the rest cannot even be said to practice Chinese Wushu, they are so far below that level, you can't even call what they do genuine Wushu."
We have heard enough judgements and condemnations of other people's woes, delusions and lack of achievement. I hope next lecture will be about Yiquan itself. Cheers.
You know Wang met bagua master cheng tinghua And said that his level would be impossible for him to reach... He was quite serious I read this in Vandersloot's book
China has forbidden fighting for many years, that's the problem. most of kung fu schools became choreography/calistheny schools, people got well conditioned, good in artistic performance, without any real fighting. some Hong Kong schools, far from mainland infuence still had combat as a regular thing, and cross training, what is really important, because the only way to fight well against different styles is having opportunities to exchange experiences with fighters from other styles. when I see some kung fu guys fighting i think, oh boy, they are so naive... I was trained in southern hung kuen, but my sifu has been always training other stuff like boxing, kick boxing, aikido, bjj, etc... and I myself had great friendship with good martial artists from different schools and exchanged a lot. when I see some Yiquan fighting videos, looks a lot with a poor boxing, poor tuishou/sanshou- it lacks good stepping/moving, it lacks dodging, and in many cases, don't even have what it should - hunyuan strenght (peng jin), in other words, it sucks, seems they are fighting but they are not, they are just launching punches in the air and pushing each other, not even real punches in the torso area, kicking? they don't even have real training for raising the leg with power, it's embarassing, so, many think that keeping high hands in the air is a good defense because they never were kicked in the chest/stomach, with a powerfull side kick, so their ideas of controlling distance is based only in hands... a beginner in karate, or sanda, would easily knock down a naive guy like this.
The overall standard is when war was at its highest or during a warring period. Wushu was weapon based. Wang had no major battlefield experience. He wasn't a killer, nor was Wu Yi Hui who beat him (LHBA). Nor do we know the peak of ability throughout the thousands of years of actual murderous war in china. This perspective has no connection to anything other than the modern philosophy of CMA and a brief screen shot into a brief moment of Chinese culture that the west has been fixated on because of a cultural trend in Hong Kong cinema. Someone that killed with the most efficiency was the peak, even if they died and no one knows about them. Guns, bombs and drones are the peak. or iron, or spears or steel or calvary or the bow. If I was to paraphrase the last twenty five minutes that I waited through hoping for something of real insight is this. What my practice and lineage means to me and why I think its the best without comparing it to anything other that my personal values. I train gong fu, but i also worked with a special forces member who told me stories that would make anyone in the "FREE WORLD" question the cost of our standard of living. Nightmare stories of hand and knife kills. Wang should have tried to become a superhero like batman and fought gangs controlling drugs and prostitution with his method. Silly right.