Semantic are important in this case. For hard core martial artists, is very important to be able to close the distance on an opponent. However, that is not the same as attacking. One closes the distance when the attacker has committed an error in judgement and exposed an gap in awareness. I do not attack. I intercept the opponent's attack. This is the ethical and practical strategy. Within tai chi, there are strategies for closing the gap. Some involve moving. All require stillness.
I'm over 60 and have practiced the Yang's Long form most of my life. I love how you clearly explain what makes this art a effective self defense style, (Energy flow drills like rolling and push hands along with proper body Linkage) You seem to have reached a high level of skill.
Yes, as a comparison. The application can vary greatly from the precise choreography of the form. Learning different styles can help to liberate the student from the sin of fundamentalism.
Hi Sifu. not seen anything that made me go OMG. As a Karateka whose ethos is Application of the Forms it's what even our beginners go through. My main statement is there is no wrong application to a technique only personal understanding of how it works for them. I teach that a closed fist is not only a punch it can be a grab too. a step forward can also be a step back and one should thing in Yin and Yang whereas a hard attack should be met with a soft deflection followed by a hard counter. many thanks for your video OSU
Thank you for sharing this. I have been training in Aikido for many years and done a little Yang style Tai Chi for one or two also and really appreciate your ability to blend with the attack and lead it into another direction.
Thank you for sharing this, Ian. A lot of high level TCC demonstrations are unknowable, especially within the Yang lineages. And a lot of Chen demonstrations focus so much on power that they seem to lose the elegance which drives me to practice. This is excellent instruction.
I am still teaching. But most of my students come from overseas. In-person classes will hopefully resume in September 2021. I am currently teaching online and doing various other jobs to keep the school alive. I have traveled for seminars, and look forward to doing so again.
I'm a Tai chi practitioner and I don't think that these are effective demonstrations because there's no continuous aggressive resistance from the attacker. I'm not saying that these principles don't work per se, but it's not well demonstrated in this video.
Totally agree, having boxed , trained in Go-Ju, kick Boxing and Tai Chi+ for 50years , i don’t see the use of demonstrating these, against a “passsive” attacker . I hope, that no one relies on these or just Tai Chi, to defend against a real life situation .
Thanks. I am currently re-editing the 55 minute video and will post the re-edited version at RelaxHarder. I hope to clean up the audio and to include closed captioning.
Dear Mr. Sinclair, it really looks like you have been able to translate the Taiji-form into practical fighting. I have been studying Aiki-jujutsu on a high level when I was young. And since ten years, I study the art of Taiji. The funny thing is, my practical applications of the Taiji-form feel like a deeper understanding of the technique of Aiki-jujutsu. When I look at your application, I see myself, ten years later!
Ian, I am a tai chi teacher in the NY area, and a big fan of your work. I'd love to see these techniques without all the jumpy cuts. Thanks for your videos.
It seems to me that Ian only removed the parts where he's NOT using technique: Curtis attacks and Ian uses taiji technique to evade and respond to the attack until Curtis has no defense. Nothing's been cut out.
@@TRUTHorSTFU Thanks. However, there is a longer version of this video in which I describe more about what is being done. I will consider publishing it again.
I have watched this video so many times. There is a very effective self defence system hidden in Tai Chi but 99% of the Tai Chi practitioners have never sparred or been pressure tested so they never question the mystical nonsense they are sold by the 'masters'. I hope that Chinese martial arts people can learn from the endless beatings they are getting from MMA people. Sparring is not optional and the real test of whether a technique works is when a skilled person resists it.
Competence aside, I don't think anyone should should be training like this with a jewelry dangling about the neck, If you've promised someone that you'll never take it off or something then wear it inside your sweater please. If I were a student of yours I would be discouraged by this, as I could well lose the use of a finger or break the necklace, which must have some personal value. The risk seems really unnecessary. Sorry to say this because I do enjoy your videos, really.
Quite a petty and impractical concern. If you are afraid of his necklace when training with him then simply ask him to remove it. Being made of string and beads its unlikely to cause any injury even if it gets caught on something. Next you will be saying he should have trimmed his fingernails.
❤ I have seen the original version of this video about twelve maybe fourteen years ago. I was trained in Chen Family Tai Chi Chuan for about two decades before that. After I saw Ian Sinclair I began to learn Yang Family Forms. Never stopped watching Sinclair since..
These apps do work very well when applied. You were just smart enough to cut the most important frames out so you can't see the full move and all of it's components. They only don't work if you try to do these without the missing pieces.
Thank you for having good push hands skill and teaching good combat concept and for the disclaimer warning....ive looked at alot of bootie push hands on youtube from grandmasters to whatevers and now you. Ive been practicing here in san diego for 20 plus years now and im sort of a nomad gypsy rogue ronin wanderer push hands guy...i ve used my skill as a bouncer and still do and want to thank you for being skilled and honestly portraying that skill here on this forum. For those of you training underneath this man...continue to do so. Namaste
I am an explorer, not a curator. I must leave it to more gifted people than me to preserve the style. I suppose I am limited by my own art. But I long ago learned to appreciate my own journey instead of lamenting that I am not the old masters. Thank you for reminding us that there are other teachers who are far more qualified than I am.
No disrespect, sir, but I don't understand. Most other martial arts have some form of attack from Karate to Wing Chun to Jiu Jitsu, and, it may become necessary to attack someone in your lifetime for whatever reason (in defense of others, etc...) So, you do not dissuade me from my point. Please explain, sir.
Mister Sinclair; why the change from Taijiman777? I love your videos; am so grateful for them, and your honest and masterful demonstration of your skills. I used this to show what real Tai chi looks like, in combat. Then contrasted it with someone else who posts tons of Tai Chi who doesn't know the basics.
Have just taken up Tai Chi..mainly for self defence. And it is very slow for me in progress because I have a limited disability, however seeing what these techniques can ultimately deliver I will persevere. Thank you
An idea occurs to me; though Tai Chi is an excellent form of self-defense and exercise, it has no attack applications, and therefore, imo, is only half a system.
I found that to be a flaw. I was once in an altercation where after the initial attack against me, my attacker didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what to do either as he was no longer attacking me. We just stood there opposite each other (like the start of a live action street fighter game 😂) for what seemed like an eternity. I took up karate and Thai boxing after that altercation to fill the gaps
i really like the way you play around, investigate as you go along ans are not stuck in the one, two, three techniques thing.I love to "feel" around (no pun intended). Love your work, Mr Sinclair!
Hi Ian, great montage. I really liked the full length video, because of the detailed commentary. I watch it earlier this year and last year too. Is it still available anywhere?
Thank you. Hip movement is very important. But in application, the hips are the centre of the wheel, and the rotation is very small between changes of direction. The dantien changes the shape. The legs determine the direction of the power. The hips decide the location of the lever. When the load is placed at the fulcrum, the hip may appear to move. But when the load is far from the fulcrum, the hips appear to be still. It is not important that the opponent or spectator see my hips move. It is essential that I feel them, however.
I've learned this form a while ago, but haven't practice for years now. You really did extract the essence of this simple form and made it easier to understand. It saddens me to realise how poor was the teaching i've got. This one teacher I had taught me a lot of taichi forms, since I was learning the movements faster than average. But he couldn't teach the form in depth. We were barely practicing push hands, which to me helps you to understand each movement. Thank you for the eye opener :D
Semantic are important in this case. For hard core martial artists, is very important to be able to close the distance on an opponent. However, that is not the same as attacking. One closes the distance when the attacker has committed an error in judgement and exposed an gap in awareness. I do not attack. I intercept the opponent's attack. This is the ethical and practical strategy. Within tai chi, there are strategies for closing the gap. Some involve moving. All require stillness.
Attacking first only works if your victim is asleep.
Ah, but arriving first is what you do over and over in this video, Sifu :-) So how does one arrive first and attack last? :-)
@@TRUTHorSTFU A general (taiji) hint: The attack does not start, when the "normal" observer observes it.
I'm over 60 and have practiced the Yang's Long form most of my life. I love how you clearly explain what makes this art a effective self defense style, (Energy flow drills like rolling and push hands along with proper body Linkage) You seem to have reached a high level of skill.
Yes, as a comparison. The application can vary greatly from the precise choreography of the form. Learning different styles can help to liberate the student from the sin of fundamentalism.
Hi Sifu. not seen anything that made me go OMG. As a Karateka whose ethos is Application of the Forms it's what even our beginners go through. My main statement is there is no wrong application to a technique only personal understanding of how it works for them. I teach that a closed fist is not only a punch it can be a grab too. a step forward can also be a step back and one should thing in Yin and Yang whereas a hard attack should be met with a soft deflection followed by a hard counter. many thanks for your video OSU
Thank you for sharing this. I have been training in Aikido for many years and done a little Yang style Tai Chi for one or two also and really appreciate your ability to blend with the attack and lead it into another direction.
Thank you for sharing this, Ian. A lot of high level TCC demonstrations are unknowable, especially within the Yang lineages. And a lot of Chen demonstrations focus so much on power that they seem to lose the elegance which drives me to practice. This is excellent instruction.
Any chance ur still teaching Ian? And will you ever do a workshop outside US/Canada one day?
I am still teaching. But most of my students come from overseas. In-person classes will hopefully resume in September 2021.
I am currently teaching online and doing various other jobs to keep the school alive.
I have traveled for seminars, and look forward to doing so again.
I'm a Tai chi practitioner and I don't think that these are effective demonstrations because there's no continuous aggressive resistance from the attacker. I'm not saying that these principles don't work per se, but it's not well demonstrated in this video.
A demonstration is not a fight.
Totally agree, having boxed , trained in Go-Ju, kick Boxing and Tai Chi+ for 50years , i don’t see the use of demonstrating these, against a “passsive” attacker . I hope, that no one relies on these or just Tai Chi, to defend against a real life situation .
Thanks.
I am currently re-editing the 55 minute video and will post the re-edited version at RelaxHarder.
I hope to clean up the audio and to include closed captioning.
Ian Sinclair what's the difference with this video?
I don't practice Tai Chi, but I love this video, I think it's the 5th time I've watched it. Thanks for putting out such lovely work :)
I used to watch all your videos and I'm pleasantly surprised I've never seen this one until today!! This is masterful. Thank you so much, Ian.
Lovely to see some of the applications.................FINALLY!!! Thank you Sifu 💜
Dear Mr. Sinclair, it really looks like you have been able to translate the Taiji-form into practical fighting. I have been studying Aiki-jujutsu on a high level when I was young. And since ten years, I study the art of Taiji. The funny thing is, my practical applications of the Taiji-form feel like a deeper understanding of the technique of Aiki-jujutsu. When I look at your application, I see myself, ten years later!
Ian, I am a tai chi teacher in the NY area, and a big fan of your work. I'd love to see these techniques without all the jumpy cuts. Thanks for your videos.
It seems to me that Ian only removed the parts where he's NOT using technique: Curtis attacks and Ian uses taiji technique to evade and respond to the attack until Curtis has no defense. Nothing's been cut out.
@@TRUTHorSTFU
Thanks. However, there is a longer version of this video in which I describe more about what is being done. I will consider publishing it again.
I fully agree. It would be helpful to put captions as to the move, so it breaks up the pacing and helps with explanation.
I have watched this video so many times. There is a very effective self defence system hidden in Tai Chi but 99% of the Tai Chi practitioners have never sparred or been pressure tested so they never question the mystical nonsense they are sold by the 'masters'. I hope that Chinese martial arts people can learn from the endless beatings they are getting from MMA people. Sparring is not optional and the real test of whether a technique works is when a skilled person resists it.
Competence aside, I don't think anyone should should be training like this with a jewelry dangling about the neck, If you've promised someone that you'll never take it off or something then wear it inside your sweater please. If I were a student of yours I would be discouraged by this, as I could well lose the use of a finger or break the necklace, which must have some personal value. The risk seems really unnecessary. Sorry to say this because I do enjoy your videos, really.
Quite a petty and impractical concern. If you are afraid of his necklace when training with him then simply ask him to remove it.
Being made of string and beads its unlikely to cause any injury even if it gets caught on something.
Next you will be saying he should have trimmed his fingernails.
Excellent
Excellent. Don't see too many people using the actual form applications. Most of the people I see doing Tai Chi are just waving arms! Keep on posting.
❤ I have seen the original version of this video about twelve maybe fourteen years ago. I was trained in Chen Family Tai Chi Chuan for about two decades before that. After I saw Ian Sinclair I began to learn Yang Family Forms. Never stopped watching Sinclair since..
Oh wow! Thanks for letting me know.
There seems to be plenty of double weighted movements and tenseness?
I am still learning from you Ian, many thanks.
I practice Systema art martial and it’s very inspired by tai chi
太极大师！第一次见到练的这么好的人，居然还是老外，不服不行^_^
Thank you for your very kind words.
Love this guy
don't break your partner.. you won't get a new one.
Ian sinclair -> An example of excellent
teaching in tai chi chuan
That guy had a tough day
Should I try this at home? :0
NNNNNooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!1
Just kidding. :D
😂😂😂😂
These apps do work very well when applied. You were just smart enough to cut the most important frames out so you can't see the full move and all of it's components. They only don't work if you try to do these without the missing pieces.
Doesn't seem like these would cause as much harm as normal sparring. These are pretty similar to chin na drills.
He's only using his arms against his opponents whole body to put him down? What the hell? Am I missing something here? This is very confusing.
Do you know of anyone who teaches wu or yang that include both martial application and the art?
I do.
Ian Sinclair sorry I meant to ask in San Jose California?
Oh, this is awesome!
very very nice!
3:42 coming back and trapping
5:30 leverage with foot
9:10 trapping
9:50 "Tai Chi Panda": jajajaja
Thank you for having good push hands skill and teaching good combat concept and for the disclaimer warning....ive looked at alot of bootie push hands on youtube from grandmasters to whatevers and now you. Ive been practicing here in san diego for 20 plus years now and im sort of a nomad gypsy rogue ronin wanderer push hands guy...i ve used my skill as a bouncer and still do and want to thank you for being skilled and honestly portraying that skill here on this forum. For those of you training underneath this man...continue to do so. Namaste
I love this easy-going music and then the BANG of the guy falling suddenly. Great analogy for the style, actually. Graceful for a while, then BANG.
Malisimo, arruinan un arte marcial milenario😢
I am an explorer, not a curator. I must leave it to more gifted people than me to preserve the style. I suppose I am limited by my own art. But I long ago learned to appreciate my own journey instead of lamenting that I am not the old masters. Thank you for reminding us that there are other teachers who are far more qualified than I am.
Great Tai Chi. Well demonstrated. Also apreciate the students who dont mind being thrown around good stuff. Riki here from New Zealand.
Why the restaurant music???
:)
Great explanation in the beginning and beautiful application.
Thanks again!
No disrespect, sir, but I don't understand. Most other martial arts have some form of attack from Karate to Wing Chun to Jiu Jitsu, and, it may become necessary to attack someone in your lifetime for whatever reason (in defense of others, etc...) So, you do not dissuade me from my point. Please explain, sir.
Well done video. The attacker made the defender work for it, so it looks real.
Mister Sinclair; why the change from Taijiman777? I love your videos; am so grateful for them, and your honest and masterful demonstration of your skills.
I used this to show what real Tai chi looks like, in combat. Then contrasted it with someone else who posts tons of Tai Chi who doesn't know the basics.
Have just taken up Tai Chi..mainly for self defence.
And it is very slow for me in progress because I have a limited disability, however seeing what these techniques can ultimately deliver I will persevere.
Thank you
Yo Ian do you have an instructional video of this?...and is this Yang form?
An idea occurs to me; though Tai Chi is an excellent form of self-defense and exercise, it has no attack applications, and therefore, imo, is only half a system.
I found that to be a flaw. I was once in an altercation where after the initial attack against me, my attacker didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what to do either as he was no longer attacking me. We just stood there opposite each other (like the start of a live action street fighter game 😂) for what seemed like an eternity. I took up karate and Thai boxing after that altercation to fill the gaps
Some of the best taiji applications I've seen
Sorta fun to watch. Thanks for sharing this.
i really like the way you play around, investigate as you go along ans are not stuck in the one, two, three techniques thing.I love to "feel" around (no pun intended). Love your work, Mr Sinclair!
Hi Ian, great montage. I really liked the full length video, because of the detailed commentary. I watch it earlier this year and last year too. Is it still available anywhere?
am willing to learn a lot from you sifu
This is one of the best Combative Applications I've seen on here.Great Job!
Reminds me of silat. Awesome applications there mate !
Thanks for putting this up, after witnessing so much bullshido I now have the confidence to actrually teach real martial arts to people
I am glad that I can inspire you as others have inspired me. Perhaps you will also inspire others.
Giving sight to the blind
The dumb are mostly intrigued by the drum
-Masta Killa
What a simultaneously simple yet complex answer.
Congrates on the weight loss.
There Wu movements in that demo, isn't it?
nice job,
I didn't see ur
Hip
Movement
Thank you. Hip movement is very important. But in application, the hips are the centre of the wheel, and the rotation is very small between changes of direction. The dantien changes the shape. The legs determine the direction of the power. The hips decide the location of the lever. When the load is placed at the fulcrum, the hip may appear to move. But when the load is far from the fulcrum, the hips appear to be still. It is not important that the opponent or spectator see my hips move. It is essential that I feel them, however.
I've learned this form a while ago, but haven't practice for years now. You really did extract the essence of this simple form and made it easier to understand. It saddens me to realise how poor was the teaching i've got. This one teacher I had taught me a lot of taichi forms, since I was learning the movements faster than average. But he couldn't teach the form in depth. We were barely practicing push hands, which to me helps you to understand each movement. Thank you for the eye opener :D