At Master Hwa's 75th, 2007, 2 years after becoming the first certified teacher of Classical Tai Chi
Wu's Style Discipleship ceremony, circa the 1980s
Ambulocetus said about the video: "It's the same for all martial arts; Jujutsu, karate, aikido... Start with big moves and gradually make them smaller."
Classical Tai Chi of Buffalo said: @Ambulocetus "Thanks for the opinion, but it is considerably more complex than that and I think you miss the point here. Big moves of the arms and legs can indeed be made smaller in Karate, Aikido, Jiu-Jitsu but this story has more chapters. BTW Master Stephen Hwa taught Classical Tai Chi for years at a Karate studio in Rochester, NY and one of my students is a Jiu-Jitsu "Professor", owns an Aikido, Jiu-Jitsu Dojo and learned the Wu's Style Mid- Frame from me. I taught the Wu's Style Mid- Frame (learned from Wu Kwong Yu, Eddie in Toronto) to the owner of a local Karate Studio who first saw me doing the Wu's Style Sword Form. Eddie Wu never once mentioned "make them smaller" to me about the movements and I was a disciple. The Karate teacher, may he rest in peace, was featured in Black Belt Magazine for the sheer number of martial arts that he practiced, but I don't recall him mentioning "gradually making his martial art movements smaller". Master Hwa's own teacher's daughter has a black belt in Jiu-Jitsu and teaches the Classical Tai Chi at the Jiu-Jitsu Dojo in Chico, California. Nevertheless, to continue, the bigness of limb movement being made into the smallness of limb movement is a necessary thing but not a sufficient condition when it comes to the presence of the "internal discipline" he speaks of seeing at 1:40 where sophisticated movement originates in the core.
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