Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Advanced T'ai Chi (2) "Train" Self Defense


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Attacks may be so varied, multiple and sophisticated, that simple T'ai Chi self defense principles do not seem at all adequate.  Your attacker, for example, seems to leap off the ground and rain down from the sky, like a flying train.  What now?

Bruce Lee was positively philosophical yet exceeding practical, too:  You do whatever it takes to protect yourself and perhaps a loved one.  A life-threatening situation is no longer about trying to remember and apply whatever techniques you learned in class.  

You go on instinct, you sense things quickly, you react in whatever way your mind, body and spirit deem you ought to.  Perhaps scream and run, claw and bite, or talk your way out of it.

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