Taiji Sanda Competition

A lot of noise, a lot of people… and a lot of sport fighting based on Taijiquan grappling. Footage from Taiji Sanda Competition, as a part of „Chenjiagou International The First Tai Chi Chuan Exchange Competition China” organized by Chenjiagou Taijiquan Xuexiao in 2012. Featuring Wang Yan, Chen Xianglin and Chen Jianqiang. Chen Hui and Zhang Yanfei alternately as the main referees. Chen Ziqiang and Chen Jun sitting at judges' desk.
Regarding the rules, it was allowed to kick the legs and to punch the torso in order to destroy the opponent’s balance. However the points were only counted for the clear throws and takedowns as well as pushing the adversary out of the fighting ground.
Film by: Szczeciński Klub Taijiquan
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[@Entspannenleichtgemacht]

Thats a very cool way of practicing💪🏿 wish we Had more of this in Germany and less of the "fixed step" stuff.

[@Szczecinski_Klub_Taijiquan]

You can join annual Wu Wei Cup Competition in Hamburg! :-)

[@Entspannenleichtgemacht]

Szczeciński Klub Taijiquan yes mostly fixed step stuff. Never seen anything that includes kicks to tui shou.

[@Szczecinski_Klub_Taijiquan]

​@@Entspannenleichtgemacht Correct, I have got Your point now. Also I have not experienced Taiji Sanda outside China. One can take part in Sanda instead, however the scoring is different. Surely Taijiquan practitioners should include sparring with others in their training and ask themselves if perhaps they are trying to use more Kickboxing instead of Taijiquan during the sparring and how good their Taijiquan basics are. Often they are just trying to deal with opponents using kickboxing or jiu-jitsu techniques but their body usage and power generation is not a fruit of proper Taijiquan training methods. Very few persons were training with real teacher for longer time. The most of Taijiquan practiotioners is just following their own vision. Anyway, if You find a lack in that kind of competitions You can try to organize one.

[@lorretta69]

Yes most of our practice is fixed. I did this for my black sash grading though. It was great fun.

[@lukerockhold5216]

karate kid 2010

[@hle7162]

Sands???😂

[@TheRetroman68]

Moving step tui shou

[@sarivata]

To get anything like this I have to go to a BJJ place. excellent to watch

[@XianWangTheo]

this is san dui shou lol

[@Atomic419]

how do beautiful and powerful taiji forms degrade into this horrible mess?

[@RobinTurner]

In any martial art, the forms look beautiful; the applications are not so pretty.

[@Szczecinski_Klub_Taijiquan]

Thank You for all the comments! Thanks to that Taijiquan community is building up! 1. That is true - many Taijiquan practitioners are sorely lacking in knowledge and understanding, thus Taijiquan training methods are often misinterpreted. 2. Taijiquan should be clearly distinguished from dancing. Dancing is also beautiful but there is rather no real martial arts content. 3. Martial Arts and Combat Sports practice is consisting of different parts. Individual practice is only one of the parts. Examining is another part. All the parts are interrelated. It can be compared to spokes in the bike wheel. Your wheel needs to be full of spokes if you are planning to take a ride. Forms are just one type of the exercise. Only all the exercises together can provide complementary practice. Tui Shou and Sanda Competitions are certain part of the practice. The main purpose is to examine our training methods as well as our understanding. Range of the development gained through it is very wide. For example, competing with others helps us to find mistakes in our training, to learn more about ourselves, to develop our mentality and to motivate us. 4. On the video, You can see some nicely executed applications, e.g. throws and take-downs from Lao Jia Yi Lu. You can also admire very good power generation and distribution, smoothly transferred thorough the body as well as nice fighting strategies performed by young practitioners. 5. Last but not least, one has to remember that we are all limited - never perfect. Competitions are to participate - not to criticize from behind of the screen.

[@rabiesbiter5681]

Forms are just the shoebox. This video is showing you what the shoes look like. The shoebox is pretty. The shoes are designed to protect the wearer's feet, not to look pretty. Taijiquan is the laughing stock of the martial arts because 99 percent of all its practitioners (who sadly go on to teach) fall in love with the pretty shoebox and throw the useful shoes aside.

[@IanMcc1000]

Because beautiful forms will loose a fight. Pushing hands is still miles behind actual sparring for functional training. Taiji has plenty of great grappling/wresting applications so it's good to see them being practiced. No fight looks like a form/kata for any martial art. All fights generally descend into flailing limbs and takedowns. Taiji is useful in the grappling and takedown phases - but no form is truly going to teach you how to apply this, getting in a ring will. Chen Village contests all tend to look like this and it's hard to spot the form being applied - but if you watch for the root techniques such as 'lie' ie splitting, they are in there.