27 daysThis is idiotic. It’s not yoga. The “Jian” is used in many forms of Chinese martial arts, Tai Chi being one of the more famous… We would also recognize this sword from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - the Green Destiny sword was a “jian” style weapon.
Yeah, I get it… it’s just exercise, but there’s no substance to this. Might as well hold a stick. There’s no “martial” to this art, in other words. The woman in a horse stance pointing her two fingers forward in the same direction as the sword is doing a strange move.
Typically, -in combative forms of Tai Chi, such as Chen Tai Chi-, the empty hand will make this shape to “release energy” in the opposite direction from the blade. In practice, this is a way to get your hands out of harm’s way of the weapon and create a structure to the method. Tai Chi is all about balance, ergo the Yin Yan. For each movement, there’s an opposite yet equal motion that has a meaning.
25 years ago, I fought in a Chinese national kung fu competition in Yantai. I was still a young pup doing Wing Chun style kung fu. This is long before the entertaining but silly movies “Ip Man” came out and made the style popular. Anyhow, Wing Chun has a practice technique called Chi Sau (sticky hands). Tai Chi also has a practice technique called Push Hands - both similar concepts.
I was able to touch hands with a Chen Tai Chi master - a woman who at the time had been practicing her style for 40+ years. To say I was outclassed would be to say a cat 5 hurricane is just a mild breeze.
Anyhow. Sorry for the rant. I find this style moronic.
Here’s a photo of the lady I trained with briefly - she’s in the center with white.
Here’s my brother and I “fighting” on one of the steepest parts of the Great Wall. (sorry for all the JPEG in this one, it’s old.)
- 27 days
The woman in a horse stance pointing her two fingers forward in the same direction as the sword is doing a strange move.
It’s called “oppan smell my fingers”
- 27 days
Pretty much agree. I’ve practiced Yang style Jian for over 30 years at this point (eep, gettin’ old, but it beats the alternative). The Chen style teacher you practiced with, in those pictures, demonstrates more ‘gong fu’ just standing there than does the ‘horse stance lady’ with her index finger beyond the guard of the Jian she is holding. I’ve also seen / talked with people who practice Yoga Mace/ Mallet/ Hammer, and it’s a bit puzzling, to say the least.
It’s cool that you’ve trained for so long. I started in 1998 - I walked into a school in Fort Worth, TX that had Wing Chun on Monday and Wednesdays, 7-Star Praying Mantis on Tuesday and Thursdays… I walked in on a Monday and the rest was history. I will say that being able to fight against other styles within your own school was great. Most people train in a vacuum - only fighting against people from their own lineage. It took me a long time to learn how to “squash those bugs” effectively. ;)
Over time I realized that there’s really no such thing as “hard” and “soft” styles, as they all end up morphing into one another after enough practice. That said, I’m craving something different after all of these years and have been considering finding a BaGua or XinYi teacher here in the Seattle area - I know both exist, but boy are the prices just insane.
Keep training, friend. We practice dying arts.
- 27 days
I have to train, it keeps me alive, inside. I have a friend who does Wing Chun, from up in MI. lol, I’m just done training, did some jian, and some da dao. And some Hsing I line drills. Time to get some dinner.
- NihilsineNefas@slrpnk.netEnglish27 days
Aha I literally came into this post trying to find out if it was Tai Chi that used a sword, cheers
Yeah, but in the end it it is just a sword and many styles used it… Just not for whatever these people are doing.
- Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish27 days
woman in a horse stance pointing her two fingers forward in the same direction as the sword is doing a strange move.
Usually she uses only the middle finger ofc, but then she didn’t have the balls to publish it that way.
/s
I wouldn’t recommend standing like this during a sword fight.
- Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.worksEnglish26 days
Her fingers are extended just before curling into the “bring it” gesture to taunt her foe over. Trust me, bro.
- MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish27 days
Or, radically outside the box thinking… training in traditional martial arts?
- 27 days
This is the NYPost, it’s like reading FOX News. It’s click and rage-bait all the way down with them. I even have them blocked in my firewall, so I couldn’t actually read the story, but my guess would be you’re not far off the mark of them reporting on something totally normal and trying to make it sound like “some weird thing people do” instead of “this totally common and normal thing people do.”
Unless you’re on the west coast, then they change the header to “California Post.” Barf.
- 27 days
Don’t end up like Butters while you’re having fun with weapons.
- Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mlEnglish27 days
ITT: Lemmy nerds, some of whom definitely own swords they bought at renfair, dunk on some lady doing dumb shit with a sword.
y’all live in some glass houses
- spacesatan@leminal.spaceEnglish27 days
Everyone is allowed to be cringe but you can’t be saying shit like “I walk around the city feeling like the cool princess in a tower — but, in reality, I’m the dragon.” to a reporter.
- Ecco the dolphin@lemmy.mlEnglish27 days
Yes, but what I am saying is, everyone here at Lemmy.com.nz.ml has more in common with this lady than some normal person who wouldn’t do sword yoga (lmao) or talk to a reporter about it. I, personally, am deeply cringe and would never talk to a reporter about my weird ass hobbies.
My comment was aimed at the folks posting “well acktually u don’t use swords in yoga try a real martial art 🤓” or that one down voted person talking about karens, for some reason.
I’m a huge fan of her work. The world needs more hot athletic women with swords.
If necessary, “hot” can be dispensed with. “Athletic” too, as required.
Women working out with swords? Meh. Women dueling with swords? Now we’re talking.
Reminder that this is from nypost, which is a tablet rag and publishes lies constantly.
- 27 days
This is viral marketing for the new Highlander movie
- unphazed@lemmy.worldEnglish27 days
Wait, what? Brb.
Edit: Can’t find much about it to drive me away or entice me to watch. That AI trailer is absolute festering garbage. Didn’t even get the famous line right. Cast is promising though. Question is, will it be Highlander 1 script material or 2?
- 27 days
I’m trusting Henry Caville not to let them fuck it up
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish26 days
Let’s not normalize NYPost, which has a history of pushing anti-trans agenda and actively endangers the lgbtqia community with their sensationalized reporting.
My darling and I do combat choreography and a theatre friend alerted us to this trend. But honestly, I couldn’t tell you if that was 2, 4, or 12 months ago.
- BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.todayEnglish27 days
Wow, all the sword-owning incels just popped the strongest boners of their lives.
“My SOULMATE!”
