Trick wrote:Yes, and any such would probably try to hijack Yiquan method in an even weirder way……. Oh, wait they already on that path
Not sure what you mean. My sarcastic reply to your post was coming from what I've seen here at RSF over the past couple of decades, and in recent years.
It's easy to spot the bullshitters, and to see who knows what they're talking about. The people who know what they're talking about being challenged by the bullshitters and then the bullshitters co-opting the ideas and 'speak' they used to argue against...like the rest of us don't notice. Imagine entrusting your learning to someone like that...
Those who know, know - those who don't, blog
The people who know what they're talking about don't always agree, but that discord comes from an experiential understanding and not some academic interpretation of what someone else wrote a hundred years ago - or some point on their curve of ever-changing 'understanding'.
It's like my noting the congruity between the formats of practice in the video Wayne posted and the gulf between that and what Graham understood about what he was seeing. It starts from a place of not understanding, and ends up at a place of not understanding, and not even caring to understand. Just one example of how the practical skills development of these arts is overlooked or dismissed by people who have never done the kinds of work dude shows in the video. How could they know?
So, it isn't even about what's shown the video, or what dude was discussing. It's more to do with cultivating ignorance/lack of understanding, and becoming practiced in the skill of appropriation and co-opting of others understandings to fill the gaps created by that cultivation of ignorance. Graham's misguided suspicion of my need to pontificate from on high has robbed him of his opportunity to gain insight to something he mistook for "rage" in the video. The ideas are there for anyone to see - "Do your own research"...it's easy...
The Beat is a concept and tactic that is at least as old as long weapons usage and has been a part sport fencing since its earliest days. Bruce Lee adopted the concept and expanded on it as Hand Immobilization Attack to include trapping and intercepting. Not my "personal jargon" that Graham accuses me of using to elicit enquiry. Again, "Do your own research"
Covering is another concept that is ubiquitous in lots of different MA systems that closely ties with The Beat in all kinds of empty-hand fighting 'styles'. Not my "personal jargon"
Look and Gaze are pretty obvious in the video for anyone to see if they take the time to watch the video at the timestamps I listed. But again, cultivation of ignorance and not doing one's own research...
Jimmy posted this picture in another thread. It illustrates Look and Gaze as it happens in most pre/post contact moments in full-on 'fighting'. It's also a very nice representation of Yin and Yang coming into balance, caught in the moment: