Its pretty good Fish - he is just a tad more skilled than me. A very good example of sticking to your opponent, no matter what.
and i've never seen any taiji guy punch or kick an opponent, but taiji has its fair share or punches and kicks
I once butted a fellow on the stomach (and knocked him over) who was way bigger, stronger and more experienced than me in Pushing Hands "Thats not Pushing Hands" - ok but why leave a gaping hole through the middle? - against a midget like me. I was taken down in some fancy application, but the fellow's groin was a couple of inches from my fist and he was yacking rubbish, so I gave his eggs a very light scrambling - the yacking rubbish stopped.
In the vid, Mr Chan gets into compromised postures, but sticks to the opponent and finds reversals - not easy to do, but a skill to be practised.
From the "head lock leg sticky" at 1.03 and "leg break" at 1.55, I have to say that he knows Chinese wrestling. http://youtu.be/MUf1llA3HXg
Not directly, but I can see a Snake creeps down structure at 1.55 - Forms came from applications which came from techniques - this is why techniques and applications are way more interesting than Forms to me.
The "snake creeps down" does not use "leg break/spring" power. At 0.17, his right hand wraps his opponent's left arm, a 2 points control, that's a 100% Chinese wrestling skill. I'm glad to see people who "cross train". It's a good thing. May be someone can ask him in person to get his personal respond. If he says that he has never trained Chinese wrestling, and all these skill came from his Taiji, I have to admit that he may be the smartest person on this planet.
Chinese wrestling is in the syllabus of my Wudang TCC, but not many folk are truelly skilled in it. Its an area that I would like to see developed more. Mr Chan uses his lower legs to good effect in unbalancing his opponent. Again all in the Sanshou section of the syllabus, but not many folk really skilled in it.
As I have said, if Mr Chan had learned all his skill from his Taiji only. I have to say that I respect his intellegence big time.
My Wudang TCC is essentially of Wu lineage, the same root as Mr Chan's TCC but I don't recognise him directly. As in a lot of TCC, there is a lot of variation in Wu TCC. In summary TCC is just so much more than merely Pushing Hands and Forms, its just hard getting there.
I was quite impressed with this. Good find, I still use the headlock T/D in wrestling...even used it in Boxing recently. Just had to cheat when I was getting my head bashed in.
Can we see some similiarity between 1.16 of this clip, [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUf1llA3HXg&feature=youtu.be"]YouTube[/ame] and this clip? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk2tg5COzxY&feature=youtu.be"]YouTube[/ame] Also at 1.56 of this clip [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUf1llA3HXg&feature=youtu.be"]YouTube[/ame] and this clip? [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBwf_4qp_4M&feature=youtu.be"]YouTube[/ame] Is it possible that Taiji and Chinese wrestling can develop such similiar skills?
