Man of Tai Chi

Oh dear lord. What... I don't even...

Keanu is one of a kind, that's for sure - a man of impeccable taste and a full acting range from A to A and back again.
 
Ok. I know it's not nice to bash.

I saw it again.

I can feel gills developing on the sides of my neck, my elbows beginning to bend backwards, and i think i'm falling down on the ground on all fours.

wow.
 
Seems like no matter what martial art they choose to hang a movie on we get treated to the same old Hollywood style chopsaki action scenes. Nothing in the trailer resembled martial tai chi. It is a grounded defensive fighting art, no flying kicks, no kicks above the waist. Well done, most techniques are difficult for an observer to see so not very well suited to Hollywood action films.
I can recommend tai chi as a practice that will improve your handheld camera work significantly. Been at it for more than 25 years now.
 
I've been at it for two years and the premise goes against the whole thing.

On improving handheld work, Tai Chi and Chi Gung are the reason I stopped limping after ten years of not walkin right. It's gorgeous stuff that has so much more to offer than combative techniques, as powerful as they may be.

It was really sad to see, in all seriousness, aside from my evolving backwards earlier after watching it.
 
That said... I feel guilty and am compelled to say something nice about something else... Ip Man was cool, aside from the whole China vs. Japan thing and the blatant twisting of the man's history, I thought it was a nice movie for Wing Chun. Donnie Yen managed to look like he was at it for ages.

Not a good movie for the Ip family, but a nice one for the art itself, outside the politics. Razz? Your thoughts on Ip Man?

Also don't mean to derail a thread, trying to find points of comparison for martial arts movies.
 
greymog said:
I've been at it for two years and the premise goes against the whole thing.

On improving handheld work, Tai Chi and Chi Gung are the reason I stopped limping after ten years of not walkin right. It's gorgeous stuff that has so much more to offer than combative techniques, as powerful as they may be.
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All very true. I started taking it to alleviate knee problems in my mid 30's. At 63 my blood pressure is normal, I have no joint problems despite 13 dislocations of the left shoulder and a car accident that twisted my back up pretty badly for a while, and I am not on any drugs for degenerative diseases. The health benefits of regular practice are wonderful. It is really hard to find teachers that even know the martial side of the art. I am not proficient at that by any means, but had Ju Jitsu and Tae Kwon Do training in my college years,(ergo the shoulder dislocations; it was a rough combat class taught by a retired Air Force master sergeant).
 
It is something. I remember the first months of wing chun now as laughable, it was so difficult for my brain to throw a slow punch, without tension, comin from the middle, while i was still breathing. Also not proficient at the fighting (I'm a small guy), but it helps me stand straight, and breathe.

Made me quit smoking, and fixed up a left knee, also car accident.

I'm actually in the process of very quickly packing up ten years of Beirut to leave to Hong Kong. Wing Chun is part of it, I have several places I'd like to move to (Montreal, HK, Nice) and it's the first thing I look for, before finding a flat or anything. It just makes me calmly happy.

It did the most radical work on my diet. I dunno why, but a year into it I just stopped craving certain things and started eating other things.

So yeah. Keanu. mmhm.
 
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