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TCM is what I study. It stands for traditional chinese medicine and includes acupuncture, cupping, moxibustion, tui na, gua sha, qigong, and herbology.Tarandus wrote:Excuse my ignorance, Sun Tzu, but what is a TCM practice? What you say about the application of Dim Mak to joint locking certainly makes more sense to me in terms of viability than actually striking moving targets. I hope I haven't been misunderstood - I certainly don't take the subject lightly. Certainly, it is highly dangerous, and I am not surprised that Dr. Yang refrains from detailed discussion of it in his books. Kind regards, T.
Glad I could help . It's easy enough to find the information for the strikes, but I would suggest only practicing these techniques with someone who has experience and is familiar with the Mu and Shu points of the body, as well as the jing well points for quick revivals with little to no after effects.Dim Mak: your reply does indeed help, and clears up many doubts and reservations I had about this dangerous topic.
Thanks, but you shouldn't be. My teacher used to say, "dummies don't punch back"; meaning of course that to truly learn how to use something in a fighting situation, you have to simulate that situation as closely as you can. When you practice at first, you use control and assume if you hit the point or not based on your honest judgement. As your practice progresses you should land them lightly. The other person can tell you if you hit the point or not, because it doesn't take much pressure to activate many of the points. In this way you can work on accuracy without knocking your friends out everyday! Also, practice landing precise shots on non points or arbitrary points just for the practice. Eventually you will just land the single point or double point knock outs but this should be saved for a testing situation, not just practiced at will.I am impressed that you have practised against moving targets.
I have studied a few styles which have just become a mixture. This is because my first and primary style was Isshin-Ryu/ Isshin Kenpo, (an Okinawan hard and soft style) from the A.J. Advincula lineage. In Isshin-Ryu there is a time restriction between first degree black belt and second. Since there is a manditory 3 year wait, we were encouraged to explore other styles to incorporate in our teaching. I studied kickboxing and Brizilian Jujitsu in my down time. My Isshin-Ryu instructor introduced me to qi and Dim Mak (and sanchin kata), but really instructed me after I hit brown belt. I enrolled in acupuncture school and moved to California to study acupuncture. Since I've been here I have gotten into Taiji and qigong. I couldn't find a school here that is rough enough to seem realistic to me, so I started teaching a class and inviting fighters from other gyms to come and test my pupil's skill and my own. Since then I have picked up a little wrestling and Muay Thai from some guys that decided to stick around and become regulars. I also picked up bits and pieces of the animal styles from sparring; for example, I use the hands from mantis style or tiger claw occasionally. So to answer your initial question, it is both hard and soft; internal and external. I do approximately 10 hours a week of taiji/qigong, and about 5 hours of our hard style sparring class, and don't really have a set style anymore. I try to balance yin and yang, but more importantly, I try to find the yin within yang and vice versa. Practicing both seems to help with this. I am currently trying to learn the original yang long form, and find a suitable teacher for Bagua.May I ask what system of martial arts you practise? Is it an external or internal system, or a hard/soft style, or what? Kind regards, T.
I certainly don't take the subject lightly. Certainly, it is highly dangerous, and I am not surprised that Dr. Yang refrains from detailed discussion of it in his books.
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