January 2011
7 posts
Bagua comes naturally
According to research from the Max Planck Institute,
“Humans can’t walk in straight lines. If there’s no fixed point of reference, we just walk in circles”
Fast and Slow
In the internal martial arts, beginning students often want to learn quickly, but teachers want to teach beginning student slowly. I think there are two important reasons for this.
Learning slowly means spending time on the basics. A good foundation protects a student from injury and is required to reach higher levels of ability and understanding.
Secondly, learning slowly helps build...
tai chi do's & don'ts
Jack Yan has translated an article by Cheng Zheng-lei on how to gain substantial improvement in your tai chi practice.
Like doing anything else, in order to understand how to practice taichi well, it is paramount to understand what taichi is. Read More…
Difficult for Effort's Sake
Magui bagua practice is always challenging. Having practiced for the past six years, I now know that it will never become easy. But I also know not to make it difficult for difficulty’s sake.
It is surprisingly easy to make things harder simply for the sake of making them hard. Losing alignment or getting short of breath are clues for me that my efforts are being misplaced.
Moments when...