Intermediate Yiqan 3: The Neijia Revolution
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- čas přidán 5. 04. 2024
- Join me as I share my research and practice in the field of Yiquan.
Wang Xiangzhai described, Bagua, Taiji and Xingyquan as the 'higher road' in Chinese martial arts. Here we explore why.
Nice! Go on please
Examples of YiQuan sparrings are few, you're doing a great job. Please, release more sparring/striking videos.
I've still got plenty of stuff to show yet 👍
This lecture answers my question why Wang Xiangzhai did away with the forms. But let me say that while you have a perfect alignment you rarely talk about it. And you probably spent some time doing other things and only then you went ahead with Yiquan. I think this observation has some important implications. Cheers.
Yes I think that's true. I've said before, I think Wang Xiangzhai became bloody minded about this because he didn't know many forms, his links to Guo Yunshen were minimal, and people couldn't get past that so they trolled him over it. And I think that pushed him to be militant about saying all their forms were redundant anyway. And yet, most of his students, I suspect, only progressed in the way that they did because they already had backgrounds in forms and fighting. The weak link in Yiquan has always been how to go from total beginner to competency just within the Yiquan paradigm as Wang saw it. I'm not sure that any of his students thought that that was actually possible. Chinese martial arts forms training teaches people structure, and certainly for me, that made it a lot easier to transition into Yiquan training. I'll film and share some taolu at some point. And I'll also talk about this overall subject, because, as you rightly point out, it's actually a big part of the story.