Except he's virtually unknown in China. But I agree, he holds some real treasures in his gongfu. Japanese are lucky to have him.

@yin taichi I've noticed recently that you've posted similar negative comments on other KZfaq channels showing Tai Chi that you don't approve of. Obviously, you are welcome to your opinion, but perhaps you could qualify why you think that way. What is your opinion based on? The person here is performing with considerable skill that has taken many years of practice. If you consider that it may not show specific applications or style method that you are interested in, that shouldn't mean that it is 'ruining' Tai Chi as you put it. How do you define 'real' Tai Chi anyway? Perhaps you could explain and share a link or post a video yourself, so others can understand you better.

Yin Taichi, Ding is a respected master of Yang style taijiquan. Who are you?

Since you don't consider Niu Chunmeng's (One of Yang Jian Hou's best disciples) Taiji to be "real Tai Chi", lol, I'd love to see what you consider "real Tai Chi".

Yes it's like the real medicine that you need to recover from that.

That's disrespectful to frauds. He's more of a clown than a fraud.

I think I'd rather be sprayed with Mace then see a Jake Mace video.

lolz

When I nearly died in the hospital, even though he had never met me, Jake Mace sent me a bag of herbs from his garden to help with my recovery. Regardless of his martial arts, he is a really good guy, and it wasn't really necessary to bring him up in relation to this great video, was it? I've known people who practiced higher quality arts who are so despicable as human beings, they aren't worthy to clean Jake's shoes.

ZMQ's form isn't the only 37 move form out there. The Yang style has several versions of a 37 move form. Do a KZfaq search and you'll see more than ZMQ's stuff.

+Thomas Seidl Mr Viperman, sorry I somehow deleted your comment while trying to read the whole thing on my phone- my apologies, as your insights seemed intelligent and useful. I would like to read your comments if you would take the trouble to put them up again- sorry.

Thomas Seidl I think I was clarifying that Xingyi techniques come out of weapons combat and aren't developed as an alternative, but as a way of using weapons which can also be applied (though somewhat differently) to unarmed fighting, usually with only minor modifications. For example, Tsuan is about twisting the spine and when being trained it alternates striking low and striking high. If you're unarmed, the low strike is probably a gut-shut; if you have a rifle and bayonet, the low strike will more likely target the groin or inner thigh; if you have a sword, it might go for the knee. This is because of how each weapon manifests the same underlying body mechanics. I think Xingyi makes a lot more sense if we think about it as primarily a battlefield art focusing on the use of cold weapons, and the unarmed techniques as an adaptation from that. This explains the differences in priorities it has to styles of pugilism which didn't evolve out of weapons fighting

Fine, but here is the problem with that, it was expected to be used by people who had a LOT of actual experience fighting. And here is the trap modern stylist get into: It's too vicious to spar but without actual experience against a non cooperative, resisting opponent there are an absolute host of essential fighting skills that can't be learned. Further if a fighting style is taught in a way that avoids actual REAL amounts of serious physical pressure (hitting, getting hit, actual grappling) there won't be possible to apply the techniques when things get real. Remember, the folks doing this stuff for the original reason had huge amounts of LIFE AND DEATH REAL WORLD FIGHTING EXPERENCE. Like many battles with handheld weapons, against people actually trying their best to kill them.

@@goggles789 The best defense is being able to avoid conflict, to spot and avoid trouble. Absolutely right. The last thing any sane person should do is seek out street violence to "test". My point was, a lot of CMA evolved as actual battlefield arts. Done by people in actual wars.

The Gnostic Truth true

@@goggles789 Lol, need better goggles.

@@goggles789 Why do you get online then? To hate? And if you do not take information here seriously, where do you get your "tall" information? TV? Books? or maybe you do not need information because you know everything? Not funny. Too sad.

@@goggles789 On the contrary, I got a lot of information from you.

TakgeyonBlackbelt .

Yes real Kungfu is explosive :)