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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darius101" data-source="post: 589717" data-attributes="member: 9466">Taichi and BaguaThe hard styles always end (after years of training in them) teaching some of the soft style priciples at later stages. Soft styles are like a needle inside cotton. They look soft but are actually harder to train in at first (for americans anyway) due to our fast lifestyle.  It has to form?  Yiquan has foundations in Hsin-I and Bagua would be interesting to train in.  Olethros...sounds great I miss those days of training that way since my teachers moved away. I can remember training for 4-6 hours a night to the point I would get sick ...then train some more. That training really sticks with you. My teacher told me that when I learn to control things properly I can fight for 3-4hours against everyone in the Dojo/ School and be invigorated not tired at the end of the session. He never let us see him get out of breath no matter how hard he was working with us. It was amazing to see. My Japenese instructor was also an olympic coach for Japan's Judo team. Thanks again for all the info I really have to get back to San Fran or New York ..for some training again. I can remember that there was traditional sword Demo going on in the 80's and Steven Segal did an amazing demo for the group..just about 1 year before the Above the Law movie came out. Later, Darius</blockquote>