Walking Pingtui Shili
Variants from basic to a bit more advanced.
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Notes on chinese martial arts. Part 5
This is in reply to a question after posting previous 4 parts. Question was: "If openness and competition are such a good thing for the CMA's, why set up a separate competitive format (like Yiquan PH comps), where the level of competition will inevitably be lower than in other established formats? Why not just train for and enter judo, boxing, MMA comps etc.?" Practitioners of various CMA should think for themselves which is the way more suitable for the art which they are practicing. Do they want to practice that art in depth or do they want to switch to those modern established formats instead? I was already addressing this issue above. So some would practice a traditional art, and they would not engage in tournament testing, because their art is not suitable for this. Then because of the same reason, some would rather give up that art and switch to training for modern established competition format. And some would try to do both, training some CMA and par...
Notes on chinese martial arts. Part 4.
This was part of disscussion in one of Facebook groups. Planned to make a proper article based on those notes, but it would take quite a work, so finally decided to publish it in original form. Again about the practical verification, testing of skill, as important part of the learning process. When talking about regular testing of skill, I don't mean everyday hard full contact fighting. That would be something crazy. Even boxing training is not just all the time hard fighting, it is only one part of the whole training, and still it is possible to this extent due to relatively limited scope of possible situations, with keeping tight guard with big gloves, which makes it relatively safe. And in Muay Thai, training regularly like they compete would create too many injuries. So in fact in Thailand they don't really do full contact sparrings regularly. Usually they spar light contact, and only with bags and pads they hit full power. Their tests of hard fighting are at com...
Handan Yiquan group at international conference
Handan city Yiquan team led by Xie Yongguang (master Yao Chengguang's disciple) participated in 2013 Beijing International Wushu Culture Exchange Conference.
