Forwarding and Hacking

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A person looking for me can now type in http://WeaknessWithaTwist.com and they will automatically be forwarded here.
Also I noticed that somehow a hacker has gotten into at least one of my posts and added at the bottom "and here is an interesting link" --linking of course to some spam. Some images link to spam too. If you see it, I'd appreciate you dropping me a comment because it's subtle, I'm likely to miss it. Once I know about it, it's easy to fix.

Xuan Tian

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xuantiansmallThis is an image of the god Xuantian, (Mysterious heaven).  He is a slightly more martial form of the same god also called Ziwei or Zhenwu (Perfected Warrior).  Xiantian is the god who also goes by the name Xuande (Mysterious Nature), the god who met with Zhang Sanfeng the night before he invented Taijiquan on Wudang Mountian.

The names represent earlier and later parts of our era, times in which the god's job has changed.  Since all the names are still used, he is still available to do all the jobs.

Fruition

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What makes people who have studied martial arts stick with it after years of training? Especially after they have left their teacher? Are the answers different for different arts? Are the answers different in different milieus? If there are any demographers out there who (hint, hint) would like to study this, it could be combined with questions about general health and recovery from accidents..... So now we’ve whittled the question down to: What does training actually do to your body-mind? What particular advantages does this daily routine have over some other available routines? This is what I often refer to as “fruition.” What is the fruition of daily martial arts practice? There are three types.
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Bajiajiang blog

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I've been talking about Bajiajiang for a while, and I promise to put up some videos soon, but this is a cool looking website.  Bajiajiang.

If you watch this video on Youtube, you can surf around the related video's too.  The martial dance is repetitive, trance inducing, and they actually do it all day for two days in a row.  Also I think you'll see a lot of potential common origins with baguazhang.

Pure Internal Power

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I'm hoping to create a little controversy with this video as I get the hang of my new editing software.

The first part is an attack on application demo's we see all the time on Youtube-- without shaking power most of them are useless.

The second part is a challenge to all the people who make a distinction between long power and short power.  The issue came up in Taiwan talking to Marcus Brinkman and Formosa Neijia, and it is in Nam Park's bagua books too.  It's a pretty common way of talking about internal power.  The distinction between long power and short power certainly is effective for fighting, there is no conflict here.  My challenge is for them to explain how they can do it without creating an on-off switch in their power.  I argue that short power needs a root and is thus vulnerable to uprooting.  In short, the theory of long and short power does not conform to the Internal Classics idea that, "I know you, but you don't know me."

In putting out this challenge it is my hope that I can learn more about my own limitations, no doubt they are legion.  Let the sparks fly.