My daughter is a yellow belt in taekwondo. She likes it. But my main reason for signing her up in the first place is that she’ll be be able to protect herself throughout the rest of her life. But i’m not sure what is the best type of martial arts for her. There are so many and I don’t know one from the other. All I know is that I want her to be able to defend herself as she gets older if need be. It has to be “fun” enough to keep her interested too.
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Just wondering if you can use walking meditation while walking on a treadmill. Before I buy any books on it, Id like to know if it can be done this way. If not, I’ll just need to do Tai Chi or some other form of meditation. Thanks.
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Do you think that judges should be allowed to judge kata in styles they don;t have a clue about? An example is a judge who does Karate judging a tai-chi form.
I realize that at most tournaments the tournament staff is basically at the mercy of having to use what ever black belts show up as the judges. However there is no excuse for having judges sit and judge arts that are so different from what they have training in that they really don;t know what they are looking at. I’ve seen this many times. The judges will sit there and act as if they know what they are doing. Having been around the martial arts for many years It really makes me angry to see this happen. I have been asked to judge things that I did not feel qualified to judge. In such cases, I have declined and asked to be replaced. I imply will not sit and pretend I know something I do not. It is not fair to the competitors.
Several good answers here. I agree with a lot of what I see here. John mentioned another of my pet peeves about judging. I really think that all divisions should have five judges per ring. That is important for kata and Kumite. How many times I have seen someone get robbed in Kumite because there were less than five judges.
i study both tai chi and nunchaku here in china, more towards the combat technique than “dancing” etc. The nunchaku sets my teacher knows come from kung fu, and my tai chi teacher mostly does the unarmed and sword bit. Kung fu’s okay and all (i used to do a bit of shaolin style) but tai chi just makes more sense to me as i am a taoist…
But i want to know if anyone has put the nunchaku together with tai chi before me. I’m attempting to create a tai chi form sequence for use with the nunchaku but as i’m no master of either (not bad but still a student) it feels like i’m trying to reinvent the wheel at times.
googles not helping me at all by the way.
why don’t you believe i learned in china? its not very difficult to do… i live here and work here. one of the many lawai immigrants… just take a look at my other questions: you’ll see i ask a lot about postage to here. i learned and still learn here. i know that in china they don’t call them nunchaku but i didn’t learn the name in china of course. i knew what they were before i came here. “two sticks” sounds crap to me.
@ymsara.. that’s what i’ve been doing sort of though instead of youtube (which is blocked here in china) i have a real life tai chi teacher who teaches in the university i work (in china you can major in tai chi, part of a PE degree i think)… but like i say i’d feel more comfortable if the forms were prepared by someone who had a deeper understanding than myself…
@whoever. for gods sake i really did train am training will continue to train in china. i don’t know why i mentioned it as it really is unimportant. its very easy to do and has absolutely no prestige whatsoever. those who really have been to china will know that martial arts here are basically dead. people here give about as much of a sh!t as the english care about morris dancing. getting a lesson in any martial art here is easy as those few that do know it will swap for english lessons and as i’m an english teacher i can do that very easily.
Anyway, i never claimed tai chi is slow at all. i never said anything about it, i just said i preferred it to kung fu which i did a bit of last year but switched to tai chi.
please stick to the question i asked. if you know about nunchaku form in tai chi i would love you to answer. if you just want to troll me with stupid comments about whether i live where i live i don’t care, and don’t want to hear it.
@ ron: good points. principally i’m focusing on a number of things, “If we do not use any muscle power at all and just have a totally relaxed arm, we are able to turn the waist so that the arm will throw out at great speed like the principle of the whip. The handle and larger part of the rope is not traveling very fast but at the end when the whip cracks, that small end piece is like lightening and has much power. This is because there is a lot of energy being concentrated down into
a small area. We use this same principle in punching. All we have to do is to control the fist using the least amount of muscle power so that it hits its target.”
This principle works perfectly with the ‘chuks,
secondly, nunchuks absolutely force you to flow when swung…
thirdly there are a lot of ‘chuk moves that don’t involve flailing them around; grapples, throws, etc
fourthly the eight powers are already pretty much used in ‘chuks, albeit with whip like force rather than pressing… but the principles
hey everybody,
i recently restarted taekwondo. i have ITF background and currently i am taking WTF taekwondo classes since ITF is not offered in my area and question is. i am a white belt doing basic form 1: i did some research to see if i find any sample videos or something to practice at home but i don’t find any basic forms similar to mine. in class we start from the left side lower block then punch => right lower block then punch then to the front lower block then high block 2 of them then punch and turn around to left lower block then punch, turn to right lower block then punch to the left lower block then 2 high blocks punch then to the left turn around lower block then punch then to right lower block and punch===kiphap. what form is this?
