chrisdonnahee
Jingang
I can’t imagine that there’s any real gongfu benefit for doing push hands like this. Maybe ego gongfu?
I'd say this kind of shameless fuckery was pretty standard fare in the west in 1998. It goes without saying that in those days Yang style "masters" who wanted to pretend to be as 'martial' as Chen style (that was apparently threatening their image) would look awful when pretending they had a low stance tradition.
I see that the village Chen style seem to use Yang Chengfu's 10 principles, which I'm not sure if Yang got from Chen or the other way around.
I also heard Chen style added weapons to match up with Yang style to say "we got that too".
The basic Tuishou also looks kind of similar, but they branch off in different dramatizations in the more "advanced" drills.
Some also say the forms are the same choreography (Chen style Yilu = Yang style long form, and Yang style doesn't have Erlu). Although that takes quite a bit of squinting to see the similarities.
I'm a bit curious about how the Yang style and "commercial" Chen style from the village influenced each other during this time.
they had to say "oh, yes, you like being floppy? Well, we, of course, are also floppy,