Originally Posted by cxt
Sochin
Or maybe just like every other newbie, they simply fail to apply the lesson learned effectivly--which can happen to anyone of any art at any time.
Unlike Asura, who seems to feel that there is some kind of de-facto superority in HIS groups approach to the internal arts.
I tend to look at arts as extensions of the people using them.
I can't put Taji in a ring and have it fight Hsing-I---I can only "match" them when filtered thu living breathing people.
And people are vastly different.
I don't really think you can seperate the person from the art.
In persons "A's" hands Tai Chi is an effective and punishing martial art, in the hands of person "B" it can't be used to fight off an attack of kittens.
Its not the art--its the person.
Like I said before, a punch in the face from my internal buddy feels no more or no less painful or effective than a punch in the face from my buddy the boxer or the TKD guys I know or Shotokan, or Goju people I have trained with, or the Wing Chun guy I sparred with last fall.
Of similer size, weight, years of training or course.
The assumption you and Asura etc are making is that "there must be somthing wrong" with them is both fallcious and assumptive--Oh, and ITS "wrong."
Unless you can provide more than just your "say so" of the supposed power of internal striking methods----good luck with that--love to see it BTW
I'm going to have to side with physics, common sense and not having fallen off the turnip truck yesterday.