Dan Docherty used nei gong as a way of strengthening the body. He never claimed all you needed to do was nei gong in order to fight…

With regards to the attitude of people in the fajin project and imitating the behaviour of those at the top, I’m pretty sure that would make Jason’s teacher (who I’m sure you said was Alex Dong) the ‘ceo’. I have several screenshots of him insulting me and others and his offer of setting his ‘full contact’ students on people. No one can take the moral high ground from the gutter.

Good interview. Where me and Jason disagreed over fascia is that he was saying that tendons and ligaments are fascia. When I used links to show that they weren’t, he told me that it doesn’t matter and it’s all the same thing. That’s not how that works. If I went to a doctor to get my acl repaired and he said he was going to replace my tendon, then when I pointed out they’re not the same thing, he said that it doesn’t matter because they’re all the same thing, I would want another doctor.

Great interview.

02:30 This is the "Huang versus wrestler" video - kzbin.infov8SW41XjBpk

Im interested to know , how many hours training in person with mr docherty? What grade or level ? Did they talk ? Did they get along ? Who else taught him how many hours ? Did they get along ? Is this a wu dang style uk or international instructor or representative? Thank you.

I'm very surprised to see this guy on here.

I like the attitude that comes across in this interview,, thanks for sharing ☯️

I do not understand what the problem is when people enjoy some TaiJi....

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bGinqnWfl6udd9k You should interview Jim Uglow, who Alan mentions as his main Tai Chi teacher, as far as I'm concerned the real deal

Black people don't have different muscles to white people. Nor are those two actually distinct human categories in any case. It's a grotesquely racist and offensive put down of the efforts of black athletes in their training - like, oh, it's easier for them etc. That's vile.

Joey Nishad is narcissistic & delusional.

Great interview. Thank you. 😊🙏🏽

nice alan

Alan's great, great experience and deep understanding, though if I had the chance to talk with him I'd have to press him on the Adam Mizner comments, I heavily disagree with some of the things he says here, Adam's stuff to me is a big problem regardless if he has genuine push hands skills, his "demos" he does like the ones from sitting in a couch is obvious nonsense, but each to his own

Ha ha I see my comment of a couple of days ago is no longer here mmm. Very good steady replies from Alan Orr about 'woo', re pushes and responses to pushes.

Just a few things: Wilson Pitts was the first teacher in the park. He was director of Tao experience foundation. David Walls-kaufman was the competitor who can make people fly under pressure. Last question i got confused on Fu Shenyuan (FSY) getting the goods, i thought he was talking about James Fu. Yes FSY was groomed for the job by Fu Zhongwen and trained with many great Taiji uncles like Niu Chunning, Cui Yishi, Wu Tunan, just to name a few. Forest Chang and C.P. Ong brought Chen taijiquan teachers to Washington DC area.

To Alan, well spoken and well done in not giving the hidden agenda by the interviewer a chance!!!

Try to interview Richard Clear from Clear Tai Chi.

Can't believe you misquoted Joey about something that you have a personal recording of 🤣🤣🤣

Great insightful interview by Alan Orr.

Excellent responses from Alan. 🙏🏼 These interviews feel like trying to set traps and skilled, knowledgeable, aware people skipping right over them.

Nice answers to the constant questions and angling about woo, from Orr.

Great interview with common sense answers. Gold.

Ready to watch this, preparing coffee, ps. You need a logo for the channel!

Great interview with a true martial artist.

Some truth here.... Alan is one of a few <3

Great interview. It truly is fascinating that, being given a platform to express their opinions, the woo side of the Chinese martial arts have chosen not to engage and have their say

Nice one. Keep'em coming

Great episode. Nice to hear a Chinese speaker who is also a Chinese martial artist talking about the language

Alan misrepresented his style of arguing and his own reasonableness. Naturally he thinks of himself as more reasonable than he actually is. I blocked him on facebook after an interaction about a jon jones spinning elbow video. I pointed out the flaws with using the technique and that in many circumstances it is easily blocked and makes you vulnerable to chokes or strikes to the back of the head. Alan’s response was to claim (and abusively repeat) that i said i was a better fighter than jon jones and that i thought i could kick jon jones ass. Those were not assertions that i made. So he is blocked because he doesnt want to engage with what people actually say. An honest part of this video is where he admits he’s not really interested in connecting with people who may have had different experiences than himself. Most people dont have interest in engaging with someone whose intention is to look for ways to embarrass. Instead of seeing the lack of engagement as a problem that Alan should fix in the pursuit of knowledge, Alan sees the lack of engagement as evidence that his perspective is correct. It’s self-reinforcing…. One might even say it’s a form of self-hypnosis. “I am right because nobody wants to play with me and prove me wrong.” The lack of curiosity about why people arent engaging and the disinterest in resolving the issues to pursue knowledge is clear. The taoist style of nei gong training i learned is not at all like what Alan described here (not physically intense the way he described). And that’s okay. But it highlights how diverse the martial arts world is and how important it is to be truly open to different perspectives.

This was a good and respectfully done video. I think there needs to be more curiosity about why things may not work all the time. It’s not like attempting to punch people has the same effect on everyone (due to differences in body mass, defense skills, evasion skills, etc). I think the last few minutes, where hypnosis is discussed and what is possible under newtonian physics or quantum mechanics are some areas to explore in greater detail. The thing about hypnosis is that “susceptible” means “willing”. For hypnosis to work you have to want it to work. Also, hypnosis doesnt work instantly or every time. Your own stresses and amount of exposure affect the likelihood you will experience something again. It is entirely possible under hypnosis to create triggered muscular reactions. Triggers can come from almost anywhere. I have experienced a spontaneous triggered mental and muscular reaction in response to seeing an emoji. But at the same time, having experienced “qi” emission and having experienced hypnosis, i can say it absolutely wasnt hypnosis in my case , because the room was silent the first time i experienced it, and there was no warning or prior demonstration or training about what was going to happen… and everyone in the room experienced it. I think the statement that qi isnt possible or explainable with newtonian physics or quantum mechanics is actually a lazy and unsupportable assertion. Just because you may not have the explanation doesnt mean an explanation is impossible. It may be accurate to say that nobody thus far that you are aware of has explained it using those frameworks, but that statement is of course limited to your own personal perspective. I think it’s important to maintain the humility that your own perspective isnt automatically correct. There may be explanations that you simply havent entertained or been exposed to. It is well documented that living things emit energy (heat, light, sound, electricity, and other forms of energy). It is entirely possible that measuring qi is simply difficult, in the same way that understanding whale communication is inherently a difficult task.

‘Hypnosis’ is just applied psychology (in a folk sense rather than academic sense)

Good to listen to two people like Matt stampe and Mike Graves, who were not whining, promoting themselves, denouncing people other than themselves, or plain just talking horse shit. Look let's be crystal clear push hands is not fighting, it was designed nourish fight training ability ie san sou. So let the big talkers take their challenge and enter the octagon, show us your 'real' fighting taiji beyond entry level. Put your money where your mouth is, we'll watch. Instead of wanting to have your name in lights/make a name for yourselves by challenging those who are focusing on other aspects of taiji or busy being successful doing what they are doing. To the 'woo' brigade who are promoting fight capability without fight conditioned taiji, line up go get their first good hiding, they deserve it. Take a good hard look at Nate Diaz, at under 40 years old can hardly string a coherent sentence together let alone apply a low level logic, just imagine what he'll be like at 50 or 60 years old, in a nursing home, is this who the big talkers aspire to be? Let's be clear MMA has rules, street fighting does not. Decide what you want from taiji and go for it, that may change and hopefully it does, remember the symbol that underlies taiji is yin/yang, that of change. The best example of taiji wrestling for my money was Mario Napoli (trained by his Judo/CMC taiji coach) when he won in China, in the 'modern era' nothing comes close. My background from the age of 10 was Judo, absolutely love it, ground fighting was my forte, applying neck chokes (Kesa and Kata katama) and won junior championships, Taiji came later. My long time student of 23 years goes and 'plays' with Wing Chun guys and does exceptionally well against them, and they want to know what fight training he has had, which absolutely none, only CMC 37 Yang 108, White Quick Fist and the lower 18 hands of which we do about 9, and body conditioning ie taking hits.

I met Mike at the Tampa Bay Martial Arts Retreat. Disappointed to hear his stance on authentic Taiji (meaning Taiji isn’t authentic without Qi). Hopefully we will meet again in November and have a chat about it.

Nice one Mike, and good to see Dave getting some props

This is my innerstanding from my limited journey. Any faults are mine alone but if you say something bud wrong please point out the right way and back it up. xie xie ☯️💯✊🏽

Pay attention: we all have Qi = bio electrical energy that keeps us alive. Learn any internal style well and you will develop Jin = what most call internal/intrinsic energy, From here various drills and forms develop both the Jin and the frame your doing. Next obviously is Fa Jin or release of force / explosive force. Now again drills and forms that you practice using fa Jin. Whole body is sung and anchored by the stance. The frame/posture is used by being compressed into the ground. Then you can quickly release that compressed force generated through ur weapon : fist , elbow, knees etc. It’s like putting water in a hose (length is subjective here) that has bends and twist in it. Snap that hose like a whip and release the water at the same time. That sudden rush of water hits hard and can reassert itself just like waves in the ocean. Back to the hose which functions in this example as the body from foot to chosen weapon. If the path is shorter you naturally can produce the same force that used to have a longer path to the opponent. The real skill is to manipulate one’s Jin to fit the circumstances as we will it. I might die before I get to that part. I’m 63 formerly started summer of 95’ joined Baltimore Tai Chi Chuan Study Association Founded by Dr. John Wan-Yuin Chang

A happy, well grounded teacher - good choice.

Mike is a great guy and an accomplished practitioner.

🔥👌

Another great interview. Love the tree in the forest analogy

Funny you guys choose to mention Mark Rasmus and Adam Mizner to call out. It happens that I know and have touched hands with both of them. I’ve also seen videos of both of you guys though admittedly haven’t met or touched with you. Nothing in your videos would inspire me to do so. That being said, and Woo aside, I would say there is a 100% chance that either of them would flat out kick both your asses easily. I’d put money on it 10:1 You guys will forever be clueless. You will never get the depth available in these arts…but still you should endeavor to find away to push with Adam. At least when you get tossed on your ass… you’ll have that.

As a Student of Sifu Adam let me tell you what really happened. Matt has been bad mouthing Sifu Adam for years, obviously when your Teacher gets bad mouthed his students will challenge to defend him, Matt accepted then never showed up multiple times. When Matt came to Thailand he was told he could come and meet Sifu Adam, later he got scared with the excuse he lost his passport, I'm sure he never expected someone to watch this and catch him out on his lie.

Thank you for developing this conversation.

Great interview - enjoyed & respect the viewpoints. Nice to hear your overall martial background as well Alan!

Enjoyed the interview, you’ve cracked a good ‘niche’ Tai Chi area there well done Paul and Alan.

Good interview Paul and well said Matt.

I really enjoyed those interviews. Well done to you both

Oo, I’m first. Does that make me your biggest fan?