In reply, the story at the end about Falun Gong is not connected with Tai Chi. It is just because it was the anniversary of Falun Gong's demonstration in Beijing in 1999, that we included it in this episode.
I am not convinced that the originator of Tai Chi Chuan was Zhang Sanfeng. There is NO historical record of this person, if he even existed, knowing how to fight. All that are being told and retold are just legends, and the Chinese are full of such stories including the beautiful maiden on the moon (she must be terribly lonely over there), the goddess with many arms after she chopped hers off to save her father when a TCM doctor said that her father's illness could only be cured by eating human flesh...many, many such stories. I believe that it was Chen Wanting, a retired Ming Dynasty general, who created Tai Chi Chuan. Chen Wanting was presumably a Taoist and he incorporated the Taoist philosophy of Yin and Yang into the practice of the art. Stripped of all the Qigong and Taoist philosophy, Tai Chi Chuan is essentially a martial art that Chen Wanting created with the techniques he used to fight many battles in combats of life and death. The video went on to talk about Falungong, but I see no link whatsoever between Tai Chi Chuan and Falungong. While both may have aspects of Qigong, that does not make them related. It's rather low to create a video with the title *Discovering China - the Art of Tai Chi Boxing* to get an audience. If you want to sell Falungong, just do it and leave Tai Chi Chuan out of this.
Exactly, the Zhang Sanfeng is a nice anecdote about marrying the Shaolin and the Dao tradition. But history teaches us otherwise. Falungong Qigong is hogwash. We have Falungong here in Europe and my safe bet is that these people have serious mental issues.
Thing is when a thai chi expert fight in the ring with another art, he basically seems to fight like a kickboxer! non of the flowery stuff really works until u both fall to the ground etc.
It takes years to learn how to stand let alone move the body properly in Tai Chi, versus boxing where the first thing you do is start fighting. Its probably true for the most part but Tai Chi represents a higher level of fighting, not necessarily more practical. Also Tai Chi is all about health benefits and other stuff.
Tai chi is about the application of peng ging, 'peng' is an onomatapeaic expression like 'boing' and 'ging' is (sort of) strength. A simple example is to hold your hand in front of you palm down and tug the wrist with your free hand, then do the same palm facing up, you may notice that in the first instance the internal structure of the body is compromised at the shoulder joint but with the palm up you shoulder locks and remains strong. You form postures that send applied mass/force through you and into the ground. Taiji doesn't work anything like kick boxing, it is a lot more like judo.
David Martin ther is never any thai chi like u mention in cage fighting or other top rank fights when thai chi fighters fight, they look and act just like a kick boxer almost, conventional guard etc. and they can never grab an arm etc like the training.
Yes, I noticed that too !...why slip in the Falun Gong sect's message, when this is supposed to be a clip relating to history of Tai - Chi...??? Quite deceitful...
Falun kung is a cult and not from traditional Tai Chi. Slipping Falun Kung into this video is because the producer is trying to give it some form of respectability. Agreed very deceitful approach.
I don't understand the Chinese government's suppression of Falun Gong. What are they afraid of? At the same time, I don't get why the Falun Gong practitioners feel so strongly about their art. Couldn't the substitute another art such as Tai Chi and get the same benefits? Maybe there's some political element I'm not aware of. As a Westerner, I really would like to know what's going on here.
i would like to say something about that if you don't mind. The Falun Gong is illegal in China because they were trying to tell supernatural lies. For example, they told people that if they wanted to be immortal they had to burn themselves. Thousands of hundreds families were destroyed. One of my best friends was burned seriously because his mother were trying to burn all of the family. All members were dead except for my friend. And later, some people from Falun Gong tried to get my mother into it as well. Luckily, my mother was wise enough to stay out of this. The Chinese government tried to stop them, but the leaders of Falun Gong escaped to USA....Chinese people respect all the people who are doing Tai Chi and martial arts because they are Chinese cultural physical activities. But the Falun Gong is not good... That's my saying. Hope you can know more if you can do some investigation! Yep, China welcomes you!
周金丽 So the leaders have come to the US. Well there haven't been any burning incidents here, so I don't know what these leaders are doing. Perhaps giving Falun Gong classes to willing participants? And the information I've managed to find doesn't support what you're saying, namely that thousands of people set themselves on fire. There were maybe 5 people who were involved in an incident in 2001, Is that any reason for the Chinese government to declare a religion illegal? What are they afraid of, people exercising? What does seem to have happened is that the Chinese government attempted to suppress Falun.Gong (for what reason, I can't understand), and the people who burned themselves did so in response to the suppression, not the other way around.
So that is a different story then. It is not Chinese government was afraid of them and suppressed them. It is us People who were afraid of them!! There are many religions in China, but FA lun gong is definitely not one. Some people set themselves in fire. I do feel sorry for them because they were not able to see the world before they died.
1- If you love yourself learn Meditation, Tai Chi, and Yoga 2- If you like self defend any martial art law will do. 3- if you want to fight as a real man go to war at lease do some for the countries 4- if you want to make money from fighting go to UFC / MMA but it not as real as street fighter. 5- if you think you are the best fighter try the under ground free fight in the ring of death (dead of alive) as the real street fighters. 6- How long can you live? How long can you fight? You only live once but you can do it all.
An interesting article; Sadly too shallow to be informative but that's TV I guess. Falun Gong (of which I know little) has nothing whatsoever to do with Tai Chi Chuan, then again in point of fact neither does Zhang san Feng he is but a myth. Nice video though on the whole.
It's really too bad to link at the end of the clip the Falung Dafa (Falung Gong) sect with what would have been other wise a good introduction to Taiji. It's a really cheap move but unfortunately many people will fall for it. Too bad. Li Hongzi is the Falung Gong cult leader. He believes E.T.'s are here to take human souls. Read interview in Time Magazine, Monday, May 10, 1999, available on-line at content.time.com. Beware of cults. Want to benefit from Taichi and QiGong ? Please do it and practice without being tied to a cult. There are many NEUTRAL information sources on QiGong and Taichi out there.
nominal6 Lol, interesting... us Spiritual Satanists believe the same thing, that Earth is a soul farm... for extra-terrestrial beings. We are cattle, being eaten on a 4th dimensional level. Sounds like Li Hongzi knows what he's talking about. I must do some research on Li Hongzi, sounds very interesting. Then again, those who are psychic enough (spiritually open) know and have seen this.
Satanic Truth I'm not totally putting this aside. But there should be a clear line between these beliefs and simple qigong and taichi, which is what most, if not all, interested people want to learn. They do not want to get into esoteric material and feeding them such sideways along with qigong and taichi, is, IMHO, not good. If they want to read about theories of parallel universes, then they can do that separately. For Hongzi, as you might have read in the Times article or elsewhere, technology is there to take away our souls, so that ETs can live inside our bodies. I'm not 'against' such thoughts, although for me it is clear that qigong and taichi or any internal martial art, is not mixed with that at the practice level. This said, meditating, deep qigong and taichi can actually open doors. But mixing topics is not good, and adding politics, as Falung Dafa does, is even worse.
It's clear you don't know Taiji or Falun Gong. I don't know much about scientology, but I don't think it bears any semblance to either. Both Falun Gong and Taichi have ancient roots in the Buddha and Dao schools. They are both for cultivating the human mind and body, though mostly the martial arts elements of Taichi have been passed down to today. In fact, you are merely repeating the Chinese Communist regime's lies and slander. I hope you learn the actual truth about these things.
Proud to have Taiwan be the beacon for liberty in East Asia! Yes, Taiwan is a place where TC and FLG can coexist alongside Buddhism, Matsu temples, and churches. FLDF good!
Du meintest der Kern wäre Taiji. Nach 10 Jahren Kung Fu Praxis genug Freunden und Bekannten die Wudang und Chen Taiji machen und 5 Jahren Falun Gong Praxis kann ich sagen das zu behaupten das der Kern Taiji wäre, vollkommen falsch ist.
I'm not American, but even if I were, what makes you think I would necessarily be in favor of what the US government does? Both these things suck, spying and censorship... the US does one and China does both... or do you really think that you can have tight control over the flow of information without spying on anyone?
yeah but before she taught to the teenage girl yim wing chun she saw the fight between the snake and the crane then she taught to yim wing chun then it was named after her
+TiM Sevilla I was also confused because another name for Wing Chun is the Snake-Crane style. History gets tossed around and repeated when it comes to these legends.
That is because, the same story was passed down from the founder of tai chi to wing chun, why? Because, wing chun is a child of tai chi, its origin is tai chi...
Iy's just one of the many repeated shared myths of the ancient Chinese traditional martial arts. Ironically it is not seen as a contradiction in Chinese culture and is symbolic rather than literal. Plus Zhang San Feng is not a real person and it is probable that Ng Mui is fictitious too
Really? A Falun Gong advertisement? What a bunch of shit. No real qigong has a spiritual leader. No true martial arts worships the grandmaster. Pay respect to the developer of the art and your teachers, but not like the cult leader of Falun gong requires. It's ironic that FG complains about propaganda against them, when they put out videos like this, which is their own propaganda. Sure, do FG for the qigong (which was derived from other qigongs anyway), but beware of the cult! Better yet, find a qualified teacher of Neigong!
+EvergreenAcupuncture I know some people who became Falun Gong practitioners after being Tai Chi practitioners for many years. I myself practice Falun Gong for more than 8 years, and have to disagree what you say about it, that it is a cult. Not true. It is a true self cultivation practice of mind and body of a very high level. All righteous faith in the past were persecuted: Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism. Now Falun Gong is saving, thus it faces unprecedented persecution. Not sure if it was right to mix Tai Chi with Falun Gong in the video, like you say, maybe not. Those are two different cultivation forms. Yet, Falun Gong is wonderful and I can only recommend you try it and then make a decision. No evil cults are persecuted. Only good and righteous spiritual practices are. Good and evil coexist in our world.
+kobi2187 You proved my point by comparing Falun Gong with religion and placing it on the level of persecuted groups. FG is persecuted because the extreme number of participants in China scares the government which doesn't like big organized groups of anything. I believe the actual practice of FG can have benefits, but when you have a spiritual leader, then you attain cult status. Qigong/neigong is about SELF cultivation, but FG seems to pace emphasis on the group. If you can't practice FG without any connection to a group, then you are in a religion/cult.
I agree with you. My knowledge of FG is limited but it is definitely a cult and one that seems set up to challenge the government more than be genuine in their spiritual advancement.
To practice anywhere on earth without the powers that be permitting it first . Like all true practices in all religions , so is the true theology and best practices of Tai Chi illegal also to practice . Need we say more on the fake history and theology given say more ? Amin and Shalom .
Well, you're wrong. You can criticize the US government all you want, and I will probably agree with most of what you say. That does not make Chinese communist party actions correct. Both are wrong.
I love China, the people are great there, but you need to take your warriors to UFC to show that your martial arts are better. And please people do not tell me that the Chinese martial arts are too lethal for UFC, if you can kill a guy easily then you can stop a guy easily as well without killing him.
There is no martial art that is better than another. I would argue that tai chi is better suited for most NORMAL people who don't want to dedicate there lives to fighting in a ring. Most real fights don't end up with two people of the same weight fighting fairly within a specific arena. A mugger might just jump out and stab you with a knife. So in that case, whatever art makes you the more "aware" person who can react faster by just running away would be the most effective. I don't like it when people think that the UFC is the real test of a martial artist. It's not. Although UFC fighters are incredibly tough and excellent competitors, it does not mean that what they do has prepared them for what real life could throw at them. NO martial art, or even combination of arts can prepare you for real life with technique alone. That is why I argue that the arts geared more toward personal growth are the most effective in real life. They can at the very least make you more aware of yourself and therefor the world around you.
Rafatravel You you ever watched and San Shou or Sanda, plenty of kung fu goes into the ring and a lot of the methods are banned from use due to it's brutality and lethality. As a martial artist you should realise how absurd your statement is, the is no best martial art; there are only good fighters. UFC isn't any kind of real test. And black belt in kung fu... there aren't any belt systems in wushu, you've been studying bullshido.
David Martin Dear David, thank you for your kind words. In what Wushu arts are there no belts precisely. Up to what I know there are many, many, different styles of Wushu. I practiced Jip Do Kung Fu (Google it), with a Chinese master.I did not know you knew more than a Chinese master and founder of a martial art about his own style. I bet you know all of them in China. And and feel free to get a gun to lend me, as I do not have one, and You can stand in front of me with the martial arts you know and me with the gun. Or try your super power with a friend. I bet your martial art can even out run an atomic bomb.
What a great way to spend your precious time...your precious life. Be Water My Friend.
fellow the circle and seek the eternal light.
In reply, the story at the end about Falun Gong is not connected with Tai Chi. It is just because it was the anniversary of Falun Gong's demonstration in Beijing in 1999, that we included it in this episode.
Praise Be ....
I am not convinced that the originator of Tai Chi Chuan was Zhang Sanfeng. There is NO historical record of this person, if he even existed, knowing how to fight. All that are being told and retold are just legends, and the Chinese are full of such stories including the beautiful maiden on the moon (she must be terribly lonely over there), the goddess with many arms after she chopped hers off to save her father when a TCM doctor said that her father's illness could only be cured by eating human flesh...many, many such stories.
I believe that it was Chen Wanting, a retired Ming Dynasty general, who created Tai Chi Chuan. Chen Wanting was presumably a Taoist and he incorporated the Taoist philosophy of Yin and Yang into the practice of the art. Stripped of all the Qigong and Taoist philosophy, Tai Chi Chuan is essentially a martial art that Chen Wanting created with the techniques he used to fight many battles in combats of life and death.
The video went on to talk about Falungong, but I see no link whatsoever between Tai Chi Chuan and Falungong. While both may have aspects of Qigong, that does not make them related. It's rather low to create a video with the title *Discovering China - the Art of Tai Chi Boxing* to get an audience. If you want to sell Falungong, just do it and leave Tai Chi Chuan out of this.
Exactly, the Zhang Sanfeng is a nice anecdote about marrying the Shaolin and the Dao tradition. But history teaches us otherwise. Falungong Qigong is hogwash. We have Falungong here in Europe and my safe bet is that these people have serious mental issues.
Of course Zhang Sanfeng was real.
Of course Falungong shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath as Taichi.
@@Seoulmoonrhee Where is the historical record?
this also seems to be the general consensus of historians about lao tzu, even Jesus possibly didn't even exist
Is Tai chi and Wing Chun Kung Fu similar because wing Chun also soft
What's the name of the music in the beggining part? I love it!
Thing is when a thai chi expert fight in the ring with another art, he basically seems to fight like a kickboxer! non of the flowery stuff really works until u both fall to the ground etc.
It takes years to learn how to stand let alone move the body properly in Tai Chi, versus boxing where the first thing you do is start fighting. Its probably true for the most part but Tai Chi represents a higher level of fighting, not necessarily more practical. Also Tai Chi is all about health benefits and other stuff.
Tai chi is about the application of peng ging, 'peng' is an onomatapeaic expression like 'boing' and 'ging' is (sort of) strength. A simple example is to hold your hand in front of you palm down and tug the wrist with your free hand, then do the same palm facing up, you may notice that in the first instance the internal structure of the body is compromised at the shoulder joint but with the palm up you shoulder locks and remains strong. You form postures that send applied mass/force through you and into the ground. Taiji doesn't work anything like kick boxing, it is a lot more like judo.
David Martin ther is never any thai chi like u mention in cage fighting or other top rank fights when thai chi fighters fight, they look and act just like a kick boxer almost, conventional guard etc. and they can never grab an arm etc like the training.
tpvalley I think you watch too much Kung fu movies.
NangongReng1973 maybe; I compare them with reality and demonstration/ competition etc.
Tai-Chi is very good!
I'm glad I stumbled across this. Cool stuff!
Yes, I noticed that too !...why slip in the Falun Gong sect's message, when this is supposed to be a clip relating to history of Tai - Chi...??? Quite deceitful...
Falun kung is a cult and not from traditional Tai Chi. Slipping Falun Kung into this video is because the producer is trying to give it some form of respectability. Agreed very deceitful approach.
Wow, a surprise Falun Gong commercial video!
Taijiquan is soooo cool.
I don't understand the Chinese government's suppression of Falun Gong. What are they afraid of? At the same time, I don't get why the Falun Gong practitioners feel so strongly about their art. Couldn't the substitute another art such as Tai Chi and get the same benefits? Maybe there's some political element I'm not aware of.
As a Westerner, I really would like to know what's going on here.
i would like to say something about that if you don't mind. The Falun Gong is illegal in China because they were trying to tell supernatural lies. For example, they told people that if they wanted to be immortal they had to burn themselves. Thousands of hundreds families were destroyed. One of my best friends was burned seriously because his mother were trying to burn all of the family. All members were dead except for my friend. And later, some people from Falun Gong tried to get my mother into it as well. Luckily, my mother was wise enough to stay out of this. The Chinese government tried to stop them, but the leaders of Falun Gong escaped to USA....Chinese people respect all the people who are doing Tai Chi and martial arts because they are Chinese cultural physical activities. But the Falun Gong is not good... That's my saying. Hope you can know more if you can do some investigation! Yep, China welcomes you!
周金丽 So the leaders have come to the US. Well there haven't been any burning incidents here, so I don't know what these leaders are doing. Perhaps giving Falun Gong classes to willing participants? And the information I've managed to find doesn't support what you're saying, namely that thousands of people set themselves on fire.
There were maybe 5 people who were involved in an incident in 2001, Is that any reason for the Chinese government to declare a religion illegal? What are they afraid of, people exercising?
What does seem to have happened is that the Chinese government attempted to suppress Falun.Gong (for what reason, I can't understand), and the people who burned themselves did so in response to the suppression, not the other way around.
So that is a different story then. It is not Chinese government was afraid of them and suppressed them. It is us People who were afraid of them!! There are many religions in China, but FA lun gong is definitely not one. Some people set themselves in fire. I do feel sorry for them because they were not able to see the world before they died.
3:06 Hey look, it's Chris Chappell being thrown off the ground!
The natural energy
È sempre bello da vedere
1- If you love yourself learn Meditation, Tai Chi, and Yoga
2- If you like self defend any martial art law will do.
3- if you want to fight as a real man go to war at lease do some for the countries
4- if you want to make money from fighting go to UFC / MMA but it not as real as street fighter.
5- if you think you are the best fighter try the under ground free fight in the ring of death (dead of alive) as the real street fighters.
6- How long can you live? How long can you fight? You only live once but you can do it all.
you don't live once i had an family member die an come back. we're do you people get that shit. it's dumb did God say you live once no.
An interesting article; Sadly too shallow to be informative but that's TV I guess. Falun Gong (of which I know little) has nothing whatsoever to do with Tai Chi Chuan, then again in point of fact neither does Zhang san Feng he is but a myth. Nice video though on the whole.
1:17 - 1:23
Falungong is an anti communist sect and should not be confused with taijiquan
It's really too bad to link at the end of the clip the Falung Dafa (Falung Gong) sect with what would have been other wise a good introduction to Taiji. It's a really cheap move but unfortunately many people will fall for it. Too bad. Li Hongzi is the Falung Gong cult leader. He believes E.T.'s are here to take human souls. Read interview in Time Magazine, Monday, May 10, 1999, available on-line at content.time.com. Beware of cults. Want to benefit from Taichi and QiGong ? Please do it and practice without being tied to a cult. There are many NEUTRAL information sources on QiGong and Taichi out there.
nominal6 Lol, interesting... us Spiritual Satanists believe the same thing, that Earth is a soul farm... for extra-terrestrial beings. We are cattle, being eaten on a 4th dimensional level. Sounds like Li Hongzi knows what he's talking about. I must do some research on Li Hongzi, sounds very interesting. Then again, those who are psychic enough (spiritually open) know and have seen this.
Satanic Truth I'm not totally putting this aside. But there should be a clear line between these beliefs and simple qigong and taichi, which is what most, if not all, interested people want to learn. They do not want to get into esoteric material and feeding them such sideways along with qigong and taichi, is, IMHO, not good. If they want to read about theories of parallel universes, then they can do that separately.
For Hongzi, as you might have read in the Times article or elsewhere, technology is there to take away our souls, so that ETs can live inside our bodies. I'm not 'against' such thoughts, although for me it is clear that qigong and taichi or any internal martial art, is not mixed with that at the practice level. This said, meditating, deep qigong and taichi can actually open doors. But mixing topics is not good, and adding politics, as Falung Dafa does, is even worse.
What if those politics were pro-CCP and anti-American? I'm willing to bet that you'd be all "FLDF Good!" in that case.
How?
Tai Ji Quan is a Daoist martial art.
And thus this is why the true teachings and theology of Tai Chi is still illegal to practice anywhere on earth .
It's clear you don't know Taiji or Falun Gong. I don't know much about scientology, but I don't think it bears any semblance to either. Both Falun Gong and Taichi have ancient roots in the Buddha and Dao schools. They are both for cultivating the human mind and body, though mostly the martial arts elements of Taichi have been passed down to today.
In fact, you are merely repeating the Chinese Communist regime's lies and slander.
I hope you learn the actual truth about these things.
Proud to have Taiwan be the beacon for liberty in East Asia! Yes, Taiwan is a place where TC and FLG can coexist alongside Buddhism, Matsu temples, and churches. FLDF good!
Grand ultimate fist.
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Du meintest der Kern wäre Taiji. Nach 10 Jahren Kung Fu Praxis genug Freunden und Bekannten die Wudang und Chen Taiji machen und 5 Jahren Falun Gong Praxis kann ich sagen das zu behaupten das der Kern Taiji wäre, vollkommen falsch ist.
I'm not American, but even if I were, what makes you think I would necessarily be in favor of what the US government does? Both these things suck, spying and censorship... the US does one and China does both... or do you really think that you can have tight control over the flow of information without spying on anyone?
WHAT? that's wing chun when ng mui found the crane and a snake fighting and
she was inspired i don't think it's tai chi
yeah but before she taught to the teenage girl yim wing chun she saw the fight between the snake and the crane then she taught to yim wing chun then it was named after her
oh cool
+TiM Sevilla I was also confused because another name for Wing Chun is the Snake-Crane style. History gets tossed around and repeated when it comes to these legends.
That is because, the same story was passed down from the founder of tai chi to wing chun, why? Because, wing chun is a child of tai chi, its origin is tai chi...
Iy's just one of the many repeated shared myths of the ancient Chinese traditional martial arts. Ironically it is not seen as a contradiction in Chinese culture and is symbolic rather than literal. Plus Zhang San Feng is not a real person and it is probable that Ng Mui is fictitious too
No censorship here on youtube unlike your precious CCP.
Nobody really know where tai chi comes from this founder is like Jesus . Nobody knows when he was born or if he even really created it at all
Really? A Falun Gong advertisement? What a bunch of shit. No real qigong has a spiritual leader. No true martial arts worships the grandmaster. Pay respect to the developer of the art and your teachers, but not like the cult leader of Falun gong requires. It's ironic that FG complains about propaganda against them, when they put out videos like this, which is their own propaganda. Sure, do FG for the qigong (which was derived from other qigongs anyway), but beware of the cult! Better yet, find a qualified teacher of Neigong!
+EvergreenAcupuncture I know some people who became Falun Gong practitioners after being Tai
Chi practitioners for many years. I myself practice Falun Gong for more
than 8 years, and have to disagree what you say about it, that it is a
cult. Not true. It is a true self cultivation practice of mind and body
of a very high level. All righteous faith in the past were persecuted:
Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism. Now Falun Gong is saving, thus it faces
unprecedented persecution.
Not sure if it was right to mix Tai Chi with Falun Gong in the video,
like you say, maybe not. Those are two different cultivation forms. Yet,
Falun Gong is wonderful and I can only recommend you try it and then
make a decision. No evil cults are persecuted. Only good and righteous
spiritual practices are. Good and evil coexist in our world.
+kobi2187 You proved my point by comparing Falun Gong with religion and placing it on the level of persecuted groups. FG is persecuted because the extreme number of participants in China scares the government which doesn't like big organized groups of anything. I believe the actual practice of FG can have benefits, but when you have a spiritual leader, then you attain cult status. Qigong/neigong is about SELF cultivation, but FG seems to pace emphasis on the group. If you can't practice FG without any connection to a group, then you are in a religion/cult.
I agree with you. My knowledge of FG is limited but it is definitely a cult and one that seems set up to challenge the government more than be genuine in their spiritual advancement.
To practice anywhere on earth without the powers that be permitting it first .
Like all true practices in all religions , so is the true theology and best practices of Tai Chi illegal also to practice .
Need we say more on the fake history and theology given say more ? Amin and Shalom .
Well, you're wrong. You can criticize the US government all you want, and I will probably agree with most of what you say. That does not make Chinese communist party actions correct. Both are wrong.
You certainly do not know Taiji...
I love China, the people are great there, but you need to take your warriors to UFC to show that your martial arts are better. And please people do not tell me that the Chinese martial arts are too lethal for UFC, if you can kill a guy easily then you can stop a guy easily as well without killing him.
There is no martial art that is better than another. I would argue that tai chi is better suited for most NORMAL people who don't want to dedicate there lives to fighting in a ring. Most real fights don't end up with two people of the same weight fighting fairly within a specific arena. A mugger might just jump out and stab you with a knife. So in that case, whatever art makes you the more "aware" person who can react faster by just running away would be the most effective. I don't like it when people think that the UFC is the real test of a martial artist. It's not. Although UFC fighters are incredibly tough and excellent competitors, it does not mean that what they do has prepared them for what real life could throw at them. NO martial art, or even combination of arts can prepare you for real life with technique alone. That is why I argue that the arts geared more toward personal growth are the most effective in real life. They can at the very least make you more aware of yourself and therefor the world around you.
Thanks
Rafatravel You you ever watched and San Shou or Sanda, plenty of kung fu goes into the ring and a lot of the methods are banned from use due to it's brutality and lethality. As a martial artist you should realise how absurd your statement is, the is no best martial art; there are only good fighters. UFC isn't any kind of real test. And black belt in kung fu... there aren't any belt systems in wushu, you've been studying bullshido.
Rafatravel And when it comes to real combat, the smarter man wins; not the most heavily armed.
David Martin
Dear David, thank you for your kind words. In what Wushu arts are there no belts precisely. Up to what I know there are many, many, different styles of Wushu. I practiced Jip Do Kung Fu (Google it), with a Chinese master.I did not know you knew more than a Chinese master and founder of a martial art about his own style. I bet you know all of them in China.
And and feel free to get a gun to lend me, as I do not have one, and You can stand in front of me with the martial arts you know and me with the gun. Or try your super power with a friend. I bet your martial art can even out run an atomic bomb.
I thought this a video about Tai chi, not a political thing for Falun gong. Bad form.
ich rede von falungong. nicht von taiji. oder wie die europäer es nennen tai chi
long live the communist party hehehehe
Bullshit.
How convenient, stop it with the NTDTV bullshit !