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...Tai Chi isn't taught that way....

Rendering it useless as an effective fighting technique.



Not practicing against a single type of attack does not equate to it being useless against any fighting technique.

You haven't given me much to work with in terms expressing your point of view beyond trolling, next time try to express yourself a bit better.


An observation that doesn't match your worldview isn't trolling, which by some definitions is taken to mean: Trolling is trying to get a rise out of someone. Forcing them to respond to you, either through wise-crackery, posting incorrect information, asking blatantly stupid questions, or other foolishness. which looks a lot like what you are doing.

Having gotten that out of the way, it depends on why you practice any kind of Martial Art. If you are a "keep fit/sports/internal balance" practitioner, your position has some limited merit. If you are the "self-defense/offence" practitioner, your position is vapid bullshit as the only things that counts is self preservation and winning the fight, in that order of importance. Yours is the type of argument that would go down well in a dark alley (or a ring, see the linked video): "VICTIM: "Oh, you can't do that to me - I didn't practice that!" ATTACKER: "Apologies good sir, which method of defense did you practice?"

Given the video above was mostly about a Tai Chi Master saying "I can deal with your uppity MMA" and him subsequently being swiftly and brutally proven wrong, I'd say my original posts has ample merit. Further explanation should only be required for the dense and the trolls.

There, did I express myself to your obviously exacting standards? :)




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