Trick wrote:One can only wonder what YLC taught those imperial guards, it seem unlikely? that guard and military personnel daily had time to practice long forms(a couple of times) "standing" practice and additional moving neigung excercises, and staff, spear, sabre and sword (to understand the empty hand form more deeply) push-hands and similar, application practice of the empty hand form and then free hand to hand combat sparring..........WHERE ARE ALL MY GUARDS!!....Prince Duan yells
HotSoup wrote:Trick wrote:One can only wonder what YLC taught those imperial guards, it seem unlikely? that guard and military personnel daily had time to practice long forms(a couple of times) "standing" practice and additional moving neigung excercises, and staff, spear, sabre and sword (to understand the empty hand form more deeply) push-hands and similar, application practice of the empty hand form and then free hand to hand combat sparring..........WHERE ARE ALL MY GUARDS!!....Prince Duan yells
On a related note, all the forms with dozens of different weapon types are seem to be more or less a modern invention. In the past, people were famous for their skill with something particular, like a spear or a saber, not being jacks of all trades. That allowed them to spare less time for training, while maintaining their skill at a high level.
wayne hansen wrote:The set James fu is doing is quite like a set in some Wu lineages
The Wu ones seem more logical and complete to me
Here are a couple of examples
Joint exercises
https://youtu.be/nxEqVuqgL9U
https://youtu.be/ruUfiutqnXI
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