{"id":3460,"date":"2025-03-15T21:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/?p=3460"},"modified":"2025-03-15T21:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T04:10:07","slug":"the-bewildering-elusive-ghost-of-the-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/?p=3460","title":{"rendered":"THE BEWILDERING, ELUSIVE GHOST OF THE RING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t just his unorthodox footwork, as seen in our last post., but his bewildering, confusing head and body movements that gained Willie Pep 229 victories, some 53 after a 1947 plane crash that killed three and left Pep with a broken leg and several cracked ribs. See how his elusive movements caused his opponents to clumsily stumble about the ring, swinging wildly at their ghostly nemesis.<\/p>\n<p>So watch closely and imagine how you might incorporate these techniques into your martial arts and tui shou practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As always, my loving thoughts be with all who read this throughout 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\/ngeD1INP5vI?si=NwpYWPZc3V_Br_es\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t just his unorthodox footwork, as seen in our last post., but his bewildering, confusing head and body movements that gained Willie Pep 229 victories, some 53 after a 1947 plane crash that killed three and left Pep with a broken leg and several cracked ribs. See how his elusive movements caused his opponents [&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-3460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460","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=3460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3460\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socaltaichi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}