Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025, rbowman wrote:

On Wed, 1 Jan 2025 12:52:40 +0100, D wrote:
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There is more!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pehr_Henrik_Ling
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Embrace the Ling-system and prosper!

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The suggestion that he may have influenced eastern methods is interesting.

Yes, I heard about it, but I think it will probably forever remain a theory. Would be fun if true, though!

Those long genealogies of the schools never impressed me. The class I
enrolled in use southern Wu and the instructor went on at length about the
lineage. My suspicion was he chose it for its obscurity. Job security.
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https://todaystaichi.com/index.php/tai-chi-kung-10-form/

This is the truth! In the past 10 years or so there has been a crisis within traditional chinese martial arts. It turned out, when MMA/Boxer/Wrestlers started to challenge the old masters, that they were more or less worthless at fighting.
This led to a lot of soul searching and wringing of hands by the communist party since this destroyed the self-image of chinese martial arts, and in the end they accepted that there can be no alternative to sparring and actual fighting, no matter how many forms you learn, and china hs slowly been moving towards embracing MMA & Co.

It's sometimes called 8 form since the opening and closing forms aren't
very interesting. As far as I can see the 108 form is more of the same,
except rather than returning to a home position you need a lot more area.