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Combat Tai Chi

January 31, 2009 | Author: Matthew | Filed under: Martial Arts,sparring

I’ve been running into this concept of Combat Tai Chi a lot lately.  First, I read an interesting post over at Formosa Neijia discussing an obsession people are developing with the combat applications of Tai Chi.  Dave Chesser makes an argument that Tai Chi shouldn’t be thought of in the same context as marine combat.

I also visited Zyaga at Martial Thoughts and saw a fantastic video showing what tai chi for fighting would actually look like. I felt so inspired that I thought I’d share the same video here. Enjoy, and prepare yourself for combat tai chi.

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  • I discovered your homepage by coincidence.
    Very interesting posts and well written.
    I will put your site on my blogroll.
  • OK, not going to lie, I YouTubed "Hindu push-up." And this guy came up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f-wV5s3r_Q&...

    I'm not sure if the hat or the weird lack of certain body parts disturbs me more. I should also mention that he never quite manages to do one Hindu push-up.

    Secondly! It looks kind of like a vinyasa flow in yoga - except instead of a high push-up to low push-up to updog and downdog, it's kind of like a downdog to an updog, and back to a downdog. But an interesting similarity nonetheless.
  • Branden/Matt: Trust me when I tell you that he is not doing a Hindu push-up. Think rabbits. . . in heat.
  • I love that video. My wife is learning Yang style Tai Chi and I showed it to her, got a good laugh out of it.

    I read an article recently, I think in Journal of the Asian Martial Arts or Classical Fighting Arts, that discussed the common origins of tai chi and kung-fu grappling applications. Interesting stuff. As a result, I often describe tai chi as "slow-motion kung-fu" to people who ask me what it is. May or may not be accurate, but people get the idea.

    Mike
  • Massimo: That truly is a mystery. No one has completely figured out how exactly to make a video go viral, but there are folks out there who try to make it happen every day. From what I can tell, it requires something extraordinarily funny/shocking + a lot of luck.

    BBM and Branden: For anyone who is lost by this heated disagreement, take a look at what hindu pushups are - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcW61Bb8uOo
  • Branden
    BBM: It's called a Hindu pushup, and it's not to be joked upon!
  • Funny indeed... I am just suprised by the great number of views it gets compared to lots of great real videos that get hadly seen.
  • Oh this is too funny!! Thank you for posting it!
  • Ha, ha, funny video. There is a guy who goes to my gym. He goes in one of the workout rooms with mirrors and does what I think is self-taught (much faster than usual) tai chi. He also does push-ups that make him look like he's. . . well, you can imagine and some really strange suggestive sit-ups too. This video made me think about him because he is ultra serious when he's doing his workout. He cracks my trainer up.
  • Dave: I'd definitely recommend people jumping over to your article for a serious discussion on the topic.

    But like Zyaga said, this is funny every time, so I figured I would post it. haha.
  • I love that video, no matter how many times I watch it. :D
  • Eh, well my comments look pretty stupid in comparison to the parody video. But there is a constant argument in the "martial" taijiquan community over this. Most practitioners don't really seem to have a grasp on how the martial and meditation sides of the art support each other.
  • That's hilarious! BTW I'm well versed in the One Lung Ho style...

    ;)

    ~BCP
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