Listening in Tai Chi by 解守德
Posted on February 07th, 2008 in Life around Us
For some extraordinary Tai Ji listening skills, check out 解守德’s performance below where he”strike” someone through someone else. He managed to listen to both the person’s force and redirect it out so brilliantly to just the guy behind. Enjoy!
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February 8th, 2008
ah well, what do you know. its my ex-taiji uncle Xie who was disowned by our taiji grandmaster. talented guy but with a less than desirable character.
February 8th, 2008
ex-taiji uncle? mind sharing a bit of history about this person?
February 9th, 2008
hi shang, the guy you see in the clip is xie shoude. he teaches internal arts in sydney. xie is a one of two persons authorized by the late tian hui to teach yin yang baguazhang. he also became a disciple of my taiji grandteacher, wei shuren. a few years back xie was kicked out of our lineage for certain reasons. this is why if you look at GM Wei’s book and compare it to xie’s you see many similar principes except xie does not mention its source nor did xie put in a picture of GM Wei in his book. in the DVD that came with xie’s book, he showed a lot of our taiji stuff but he mixed it with some of the other yang and chen taiji that he learned as well as baguazhang. if you look at the other clips posted by googlebly there is one of xie doing parts of a form. one of the movements showed is single whip and xie does it with a bit of chen taiji flavor because the way we do it is not so exaggerated. nowadays i hear that xie is spreading his wings to hong kong. he still teaches in sydney but many people are more aware of his “character” nowadays and shy away from him - a pity considering that he is talented and has certain skills. i heard that when he first taught he invited people to come test his baguazhang and a number of people did and these tests and challenges garnered him quite a lot of seasoned martial artists as students.
October 3rd, 2008
I don’t know much (or care) about whether his brand of Taiji & Baguazhang is “politically correct”, where he came from.
But he was a good teacher to me (Baguazhang) and others, and managed to pass on some of these skills to us.
IMHO, that’s all that matters for a student.
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