anything notable or special about wudang tai chi?

[Anonymous]

This is perhaps more of a theoretical question, but I feel strongly drawn towards wudang tai chi and I’m wondering if their is anything special or noteworthy in your opinion about wudang tai chi vs any other style of tai chi? If it was not for the tai chi mastery program I’d largely be focusing on wudang style tai chi right now. Is there anything particularly noteworthy about their other neijiaquan [ie xingyi, bagua] as compared to anybody else’s?

Thanks,
Scott

[Anonymous]

…..what do you mean by wudang tai chi? A number of different organisations using ‘wudang’ in their titles.

[Anonymous]

Yeah seems to be a few types. The wudang mountain stuff is pretty good to watch but I can’t speak for the internals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhuZyZI4jw

Then there’s this one which I believe is different. It stems from Wu style. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wudang_t’ai_chi_ch’uan

[Anonymous]

he wudang mountain stuff is what I was referring to. For example,
like the dvd’d you can get from wudangdao.com or from YMAA labeled wudang tai chi.

[Anonymous]

…….I’m no expert, but this looks like a beautifully choreographed blend of yang an chen style elements. Did anything really survive out there, or are these forms a modern attempt to try and recapture something that might have been before the mayhem of the 20th century.

[Anonymous]

hi scott

couple of things I have noticed while checking out wudang arts.

i am speaking mostly of what is currently being put out from the refurbished temple and training grounds on wudang mountain.

1. I read an article a while back that made it clear that most or all of the existing monks were removed before they refurbished the temple. so its a “restaurant under new management” with a “new and improved menu”

2. the videos I have seen of wudang practitioners lack the internal power that I see when bruce works with people, or that I have seen in other top internal masters. much of it looks choreographed.

3. I had a chance to see and briefly chat with a guy who went and studied some bagua there. he thought it was awesome and the source that all other internal arts got their mojo, but the movements he had been trained in lacked several of the foundation pieces of bagua that bruce has taught. after having studied w bruce and also zhang jie, another teacher from an established lineage from beijing, and having found that the principles each taught fit together nearly perfectly, I have to wonder if the wudang organization simply doesn’t want to teach the real stuff or if they really don’t get it.

id love to think that wudang is now becoming a repository for taoist wisdom, but given all this, im doubtful.

however, to an extent, it’s the efforts of the individual that make the art what it is, so if your a sincere wudang practioner, and you practice with sincerity and diligence, there is a lot of benefit to be had.

and it would certainly be nice to visit the mountains themselves, cause it is true that taoism has been a part of that mountain for a LONG TIME.

but for my money, your better off going to ibiza in july…

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