kenneth fish wrote:Adam is very approachable, and one can ask him what he meant. I believe Bob has it right though - same as in any other art, after it becomes ingrained through proper instruction, training, and practice one can express it freely and express it as one pleases.
windwalker wrote:
He said “ The names of the taiji styles come from famous family members who where historical taiji teachers. Yang, Wu, and Sun, or places where taiji was developed Chen village, Guang Ping village. When you understand taiji you can call what you do as you wish, you can name it "xxx taiji” He laughed as he said this. Suddenly he became more quiet, reflective, deep in thought and said “ there is only one taiji”
Many of the group members played the form a little to very differently depending on when they learned it from him, and skill sets being developed. In one sense as he mentioned he was helping people to really develop their own sense of taiji....In another like any good coach he was helping people to develop their own unique flavor of taiji.
In my early days, this process was more direct with "Mike" in learning white crane....he would take people and have them develop things that he felt either by body type or natural attributes they would be pretty good at.
In my case it was "iron broom sweeps" when ever I went to the gym, I was not allowed to come out of the position of the sweep, basically sweeping my way across the gym or to what ever part I wanted to go to...very painful, really never developed it as much as I should have...
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