{"id":3458,"date":"2025-03-15T20:30:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T03:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:17:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:17:16","slug":"the-footwork-of-a-master-fighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/?p=3458","title":{"rendered":"THE FOOTWORK OF A MASTER FIGHTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Pep had arguably the greatest footwork of any fighter before or after him, moving in any direction like the Queen on a chessboard. It was Pep&#8217;s shifting V-Step that made his movements indefensible and created whole new angles of attack. As you watch this talented fighter of several decades ago confuse and stun his opponents with his unparalleled movements, see how you might incorporate this technique into your martial arts and tui shou practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As always, my loving thoughts be with all who read this through all time. Good luck with your practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NMcp3n0IQg?si=5wxOB903iSQVSGc5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Willie Pep had arguably the greatest footwork of any fighter before or after him, moving in any direction like the Queen on a chessboard. It was Pep&#8217;s shifting V-Step that made his movements indefensible and created whole new angles of attack. As you watch this talented fighter of several decades ago confuse and stun his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}