Real Supreme Ultimate Fist Form
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Real Taijiquan is dedicated to revitalizing Taiji. When I discovered Taiji, I found the art very martial and through the years grown more and more energetic and (dare I say) powerful, with very little effort. Simultaneously, I’ve been continually surprised and dissatisfied that more (and more) schools exist that pretend martial applications and hope for Qi development without working students through difficult, martial aspects of Great Extreme Boxing.
Steven Smith from Real Taijiquan
The interpretations of the Chinese word Taijiquan (which is the modern spelling of the archaic T’ai-chi Chüan) intrigue me. Supreme Ultimate Fist or Grand Ultimate Form never really suggests pathetic people warming up nor Easy, Carefree Laziness. So when I visited schools that did it that way I wondered if they taught more behind the scenes. Perhaps they hide their real teaching. I guess: I hope they do because the beginner stuff was not very good.
Great Extreme Boxing is my favorite interpretation of Taijiquan. It moves me and it keeps my art on task. We must box and train combat drills. We must train both: extremely hard and dutifully soft. All angles and explorations and tools we must develop. Great Goodness! What a task.
Thanks for the space to offer my ideas. I inevitably, in writing I think, sound pompous, perhaps arrogant, as one who pursues the violent touches of Taiji, but really, I train the soft skills at least equally, and I might be more humble in person (heh?!). I think Qigong Standing and tedious attention to Form is very potent, enlightening, and fun.
Peace.
~ Steven Smith at http://realtaiji.com
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It can be hard to see real taiji and understand how it is martial. It doesn’t look martial or give you that same aggressive feeling that a lot of hader schools cultivate. For this reason taijichuan is not for most people who want martial skill, the subtle inner aspects escape them, they lack the self control, pateince and dcipline to undertake something that will require two decades of hard work minimum to master.
Yang Luchan trained at Chen Village for over 25 years all together, few people have that type of patience now. They want fast food martial arts that talks the talk and has a big stick walk.They want something they can learn from a book or a video that will let them become a ultimate super duper death touch ninja warrior in a few short years.
They will never be happy with the true daoist martial art of the 13 postures, it isn’t exciting or controversial enough for them.
Many folks like belief systems, mythologies, and heroic stories. Many stories about how long folks train in a particular art lack daily life context. Did he ever leave the Chen Complex to search the hills for his long, lost love? What were his favorite berries? Was he ticklish?
Somebody said once that Yang Fu-k’ui did not practice Taijiquan. He was a loose boxer with cotton arms…just some guy who taught the Imperial Guards of the last Imperial Dynasty during some very violent times.