Solo vs. Partner Practice
So here is a question for everyone.
It can be taken as a given (at least to me) that without partner practice of some kind fighting skill is very unlikely to be gained.
Now let us distinguish between great martial skill/ability and skill at gungfu, especially internal gungfu.
For instance.. Fedor is (obviously) far far far better than I at administering a beat-down under virtually any reasonably fair rule-set or situation one would care to name.
That said.. Fedor (great man and martial artist that he is) is not a Taiji practitioner (as far as I know).
So martial skill =/= skill at a specific style.
Can you become good at internal gungfu while doing only partner practice?
And if not.. if solo practice is needed to develop the gungfu (I think it is).. what is the ideal ratio of solo to partner at the various stages of learning?
"The first stage is to get the Gang( hard, solid power). every movement should be done with full power and in hard way, also need to get the twisting and wrapping power, whole body's tendon and bones need to be stretched to get the Gang( hard) power. "
-Bi Tianzou -