Jeffrey Robbins: Taichi or not taichi That is the Question: What do the classic say about Taichi? скачать в хорошем качестве

Jeffrey Robbins: Taichi or not taichi That is the Question: What do the classic say about Taichi?

Jeffrey Robbins has been a martial artist for 35 years -- having studied Jao Ga Kung Fu, Chung Moo Doe, Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Laido, and Yang-style Taiji and he's been a Taiji instructor for the past 12 years in the greater Washington DC area. His Taiji teachers have included Will Mason, Bataan Faigao, Scott Rodell, Julian Chu, Ben Lo, and (presently) Stephen Goodson. This video was his speech at the 7th Greater Washington Taichi Forum on June 8, 2019. ========================================================================== Unfortunately not included in this video are the two excellent questions posed by audience members (the wording is as accurate as my memory permits) at the conclusion of my talk: Question: “What do our teachers [in our lineage] say about it?” My answer: “Ask him (or her) to demonstrate an application of a posture from your form. If he can successfully neutralize a serious, hard and fast attack (not a “wet noodle” attack), without using strength or speed, then he might understand Taiji as a martial art.” Question: “Could you please demonstrate your answer to the first question?” To answer this one, I asked my teacher, Stephen J. Goodson, who was in the audience, to join me at the podium. With me as the “dummy” stepping in and trying to punch him as fast and hard as I could, he showed how it’s done: with Ti Fang (see Cheng Man Ch’ing: Cheng Tzu’s Thirteen Treatises on T’ai Chi Ch’uan, Lo/Inn, translators, page 94). It is regrettable that the camera was turned off, so that these questions and demonstration were not recorded. I present them here, because they both go to the heart of what Taiji is: a martial art that responds to speed with stillness and to hardness with softness. See also    • Tai Chi's Secret: Ti Fang & How to Train I...  .