1 Touch Knockouts (Tai Chi) 

+Abaddon Games Yeah I was thinking the same. The appearance and the voice are so near of Cena.

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+Abaddon Games It's actually Kevin Bacon, guys.

I was also thinking the same

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+David Scott - That's called wood grain buddy. Go to your local building supply store and look at some 1inch pine boards. You'll see the same thing. Anyone who's broken a board before knows they like to break along the grain. This seminar was free & open to the public. So there were a number of skeptical folks in that room who came to see if we could live up to the hype. Including several instructors who run their own schools and have been involved in the regional Karate, TKD & Kung scene for decades. They're much more familiar with breaking than we are and have seen every trick in the book and they all got to inspect the boards before hand as does anyone else who we work with live. I recommend you check out the full 50min seminar here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-O_692KdLv24.html

***** thank you.

That's where moving your own body comes into play. At one point he mentions keeping his own body fluid and you can see that this is also missing in the "attackers" in this demonstration. In the classes I've taken (many styles of Kung Fu Wushu and Tai Chi with some Qi Gong and other stuff - I'm not sure what is a subset of other things except Qi Na has been incorporated into some of the other arts I've practiced - just that all are related), the essence of the forms is stance and movement and they are a guide and repetitive training to teach specific movements so they can be performed without conscious thought, among other things. I've had good Sifus and the first step in any fight is avoid. My first Sifi taught me that this includes avoiding the fight altogether. These are very short demonstrations out of context and I would take it to be showing what's possible using an art most people don't associate with combat and most of the time in the real world, if you find yourself in a situation where you must use your skills to defend yourself, it is usually going to be against someone who doesn't know these finer points and would never notice what you did. It's been a while since I've been able to study martial arts, so I may have some of the words spelled wrong (I learned Qi as Chi, for example but the preferred spelling has changed). I never studied where competitions were a part of it, always just for self-development and I'm almost at the point where I can return to Tai Chi classes. With a skilled practitioner, if it even gets to the point of combat, it doesn't go on forever like in the movies. Even if both parties are skilled and living the lifestyle taught, it's over quickly in real life. I think this is a good demonstration of how fast you can end something using internal (as opposed to external) strength. The real art is internal and I've heard of competitions between the best practitioners where the number of moves is ZERO. It would be over with one move and they have mastered the internal art so well, they both simply stand there and can know who wins just by sensing the other. One will simply acknowledge the other has won, they will bow, and it's over. If this is real and not just a legend, it must be the most interesting and boring (at the same time) kind of match to see.

+MaxKesmodel We have students in LA you can train with. Go look them up: www.clearsilat.com/instructors

+Clear's Tai Chi did not know Silat utilizes Qi/Chi

It depends on the style of Silat. Many are mixed with Kung Fu and will use the same qi / qigong terminology. Others will use similar internal skills and principles but use a different nomenclature. Others are primarily external. Silat is a very large category that includes thousands of arts which can be very different from one another.

No Kevin Bacon knows chai tea.

Look closer, it's John Cena!

Livingtree32 its not...

Livingtree32 LMFAO!! That's exactly the first thing I thought.

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lennyhipp i find it weird how "fighters" are many time irrationally prejudiced against traditional martial arts. I mean you SEE the guy breaking a board with a touch. (unless you think it was rigged, I do not). Who would you rather have in your corner: a boxer who was against all kungfu or a boxer who knew all the skills of western boxing PLUS he knew how to do one touch knockouts?

Николай Гончаренко Wood breaks along the grain. Though you will see differences in the amount of splintering that happens depending on the type of strike you use.

+Clear's Tai Chi Exactly. Very awesome.

+Clear's Tai Chi wasn't that against the grain?

Look and you might be surprised what you find

+Cathal Ó Diubháin you can search out the Shaolin Kung Fu and Tai Chi school in Dublin

+Ash Ketchum From the tai-chi I've done, I'm no expert, but I don't think it has much to do with it. It's got a much bigger focus on body structure and posture. When you look at this guy, you realise that he moves his whole body. When he pushes, it's not arm strength and muscle, his body moves more like a whip. So no, it's not got much to do with our nervous system or electrical energy, it's more about about the transference of kinetic energy and physics. Hope that helps!

+Ash Ketchum - Your nervous system is part of everything you do. So any type of training is conditioning the nervous system is some way or another. With Tai Chi & internal arts we just tend to focus on taking it to a more advanced level than many other types of physical training

Aditya Shetty ClearsTaiChi.com is our official Tai Chi website. You'll find all the info you need and more there.

Mazeh Sowjetski what do you doubt?

+IamHueGraves Systema actually has similar routes to tai-chi, and many of the fundemental principles are the same/similar.

Ok this could be...i am no practinioner of systema, but as we all use body mechanics it may be so. thanks for clarification.

Azzataky Don't limit yourself. Learn what you can where you can. If a teacher doesn't teach something that's OK. Learn the things of value that they do teach and learn the other things elsewhere.

Problem is mate lots of wing chun schools dont spar, most inafective schools are not keen on letting their students see the martial art being used in real time. If your trainer discourages sparing then I would be carfull. It would be a bit like me telling you I can fly your plain because someone has told me how to do it. This is not to say that all you should care about is beating the shit out of one another but it should be a good portion of your training.i v done wing chun for a long time now so im a bit bias but try wing chun it can be affective and truly in lightening, as long as your sifu is true.

Do both, many experienced Wing Chun practicioners also practice Tai Chi. Both also use similar principles, in fact, I heard most Wing Chun techniques are actually derived from those of Tai Chi.

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Stick to Tai chi. Nothing surpasses Tai chi. My master always tells me, when you can master your body/Chi; Then you can master anyone's body/Chi. I'm 28 years old, I've been practicing Chen Style tai chi for a year now. Yes, it goes take a long time to see progress, but that's inevitable with any new form or subject. If you try to do both, it will only confuse your mind. But then again, everyone is different. Safe journey my friend, and practice practice practice. For one day we will have to use our technique to not only defend ourselves, but others as well.