When karte is taught you will learn kicks and punches first and then get the fine tuning. When you learn Judo first you will learn the throws and then the strikes. Yes, Judo has strikes but most people don't know that because they do not stick around long enough to get to this part. The same with Tai Chi. When you learn it first you learn relaxation. Out of relaxation you learn to generate power. Tai Chi became popular with the hippies who enjoyed the groovy feeling of love, peace, harmony and anything else that felt good. They were not interested to make a connection with the martial arts aspect of Tai Chi, only the peace and love part. From there it took on weird religious opinions trying to make it fit into their believes. Most people who study Tai Chi do not have the opportunity to go to China and see real Tai Chi let alone train in it so the love - peace gets passed down from teacher to student. With China opening up and more Tai Chi masters visiting and westerners going to study in China this is slowly changing but still many do not and can not stay long enough to study and learn the martial aspect of Tai Chi so it is still largely unknown. It takes several years of intense study to get a good understanding of the martial art behind the Tai Chi to be able to actually teach it as well and most people in the west do not have that kind of time to dedicate their lives to such an intensive study. Unlike in China here you can not easily make a living on martial arts.|||Hey everyone look its invent karate the Y/A stalker.
He even just admited to it now,
So tell us all invent karate what kind of loser stalks people, Please let us all know what kind of loser you are to sink so low as to salk people?
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|||Are you really going to stalk EVERY answer I put up? talk about a stalker... get a life Joseph
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|||First you call me Tom Turtle now its Joseph, you like poking fun at my name and giving me others, unlike you I don't have multiple accounts, kurt. and I don't claim to be a grand poo ba 19th degree like you.
I will make sure everyone on YA knows how sick you are stalking people you loser.
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|||Stalking? Are you not the one stalking my answers? and 19th degree? more like 546546+464854685454545454645 degree, now get a life turtle....
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|||Most of the early adopters of Tai Chi in the USA did not learn the complete system which by the way includes the study of Tai Chi weapons. I also suspect that they never even learned the practical martial art aspects of the moves in the form. As a result when the number of Tai Chi schools began to proliferate the majority of them emphasized health and meditation as part of their marketing. These non martial art Tai Chi schools are increasing in popularity because there is a demand for them. The same is with Yoga today as the majority of Yoga schools don't teach the spiritual side of it as most people want to do Yoga like an exercise. Hell, I've even seen Yoga schools now offer health and meditative Tai Chi classes. My feeling is that if someone really wants to learn the martial art side of Tai Chi, they will gravitate to a school that does.|||Because most people have a very limited understanding of what it is and rip people off. Yang Style Taijiquan was the first to be taught as a "Health Exercise" by Yang himself in Beijing at the beggining of the 1900s in order to make money off of unsuspecting people.
Look into Chen Style Taijiquan. Its usually taught as a MA but there are always @ssholes that want to rip people off. Always research the teachers and their lineages.|||@Doashi , what was wrong with his question? was it not legit? yet he gets insulted...maybe i missed something?
To the asker , Liondancer did not have a bad answer....but i do find it all to often if a teacher only teaches or sticks with certain things it is only due to his/her lack of knowledge on the subject.|||1. many people who teach the first form do not even know the whole system.
2. many who know the combat side of tcc never teach the fighting aspect to anyone.
3. some teachers will only teach the combat applications after the student has spent several years doing the form and working on push hands. Most students do not stick with one instructor that long.|||Either way, you would not know the difference since you never trained in martial arts in your life.
You don't know anything about them!
So don't worry about it.
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This is a troll that has been trolling here for a few months using different usernames.
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>
I said the same thing in this question you asked, and you didn't contend over it... and you even chose mine as best answer!|||one of my sensei's knew a famous wrestler back in the 70's. the wrestler opened up a kendo dojo back then. my sensei said to him, but you don't know kendo... he replied, thats ok neither will they when there done here.
it goes back to the age old saying buyer beware.|||It teaches you how to connect with yourself/ your inner strength.It also teaches you to use focus and concentration. Martial arts arent just about fighting, but life too.|||Think of it as a religion....
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