Martial Development

Mark Faber Outlines the Final End Scenario http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3UmOGF9r1M

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Dude...that is so deep...Wang Li-Ping should be taking lessons from you man! Remember to ask for payment upfront, those wily "masters" cannot be trusted to pay afterwards...after you blow their minds with TAO. If they refuse to pay you it just proves they are fakes. Hey man, seriously...looking foward to your manuscript...Opening the Findley Gate...fuckin a.

To my eyes, it doesn't look any worse or any better than a dozen other quick self-defense systems. (Disclaimer: I am saying this without having watched the DVDs.) He says his system works without being in shape, without practice, and without experience. These are supposed short-term benefits. In the long term, however, these are liabilities, and set a ceiling on what you can accomplish.

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Thank you. I think that instead of talking about myself, I will just provide some links to substantiate my previous statements in this thread. Internal martial arts do not exist. External martial arts do not exist either. Form is principle.

Then you're in for a treat!

There is no such thing as martial arts, much less any such thing as internal martial arts, and these skills do not converge at one apex. It is all a fantasy. Anyway, I'll stop raining on your parade now. When your high-level Taiji skills look exactly like Xingyi--form is principle--please put it on Youtube so the rest of us can learn.

If "try to be coordinated" is a principle, then who is unprincipled? Nobody. "Intercept" versus "extend" is one example of a genuine difference in approach. They are not remotely the same thing. Yet they both can work. A martial artist reaches a high level after they find the courage to choose a path, and take it. You cannot walk in every direction. You cannot master every skill.

Oscar Wilde said "Bad artists always admire each other's work," and nowhere is that more true than in martial arts. Here is a principle: Habeas Corpus. Produce the body. Where are these expert martial artists, trained in different styles, who share all the same principles? Please start by identifying them. Then, we can consider whether their specific shared principles are anything more than trivialities. Otherwise...case dismissed for lack of evidence.

Absolutely not!!!

Discuss amongst yourselves.

What the heck would anyone want to do with an empty form?

First things first. What precisely does it mean to be spiritually impoverished?

The Dahn Yoga studios in my area also teach martial arts...or what they consider "martial arts" anyway... http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/dahnmudo-revealed/

Doesn't matter. If you find a good teacher of a good method, you will WANT to practice more than once a week, and you will rearrange your schedule to facilitate that. So if you haven't found that yet...maybe keep looking.

Yan Xin's stories in the book "Scientific Qigong Exploration" would be a decent place to start.

As there is no general circulation problem, there can be no generally best solution. Tai Chi is not equal to Qigong. Respectfully--if you want a good answer, you need to ask a good question.

I think that if you spend some time with advanced "qi" healers, or read their stories, you'll find they operate through an "information" vector as much as through an "energy" vector.

LOL @ this thread. Everyone wants to raise, and nobody wants to put their cards on the table. Start by telling us what you know. Then tell us what you don't know. Only after all that, tell us what you think. Or fold and go home.

As one of my teachers would respond to nearly every query, "That is a good sign; continue practice."

The Chinese word for "crisis" is the same as that for "opportunity."

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To paraphrase a fellow martial arts fan, Lao Tzu is the first word on Taoism, not the last word. Though technically, he is not the first word either.