Teaching Taijiquan
Teaching Taijiquan is very difficult because very few people have the dedication and patience required to master its subtleties. It is not possible to train harder to become softer and more sensitive. Learning to relax in the manner required of a true Taijiquan practitioner requires understanding as to what it means to be relaxed. Only someone who has mastered that particular skill can tell you or show you if you have attained this level of understanding.
Other martial arts are much easier to learn you can train harder by yourself to become , stronger, faster , more flexible , more resilient, increase stamina , striking and kicking ability although the same problem stands that it is impossible to learn how to fight without actually fighting.
To be able to fight it is first necessary to have a basic prowess in attack and defence. The majority of people do not possess these basic fighting skills and require instruction. Many think they do not need to learn these things and just want to learn “the good stuff”. However without a firm grounding in the fundamentals “the good stuff” just will not work.
So I teach the fundamentals, how to punch, how to kick , how to move , how to avoid, how to close in, how to defend and how to attack.
I teach the Taijiquan hand form to teach posture, coordination, balance and the basic application movement templates that will be used in the self-defence applications and eventually in free fighting.
January 10, 2010 at 11:27 pm | Musings | No comment
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