robert wrote:Thanks for the explanation. I study with a couple people from Chen village and, considering the level of the people I study with, the prices seem reasonable. In China these people would be like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Stephen Curry, Lebron James, kevin Durant, and so on are in the US - I would not have the skills or money to study with these people. Since taiji is not too popular in the west and they are trying to introduce taiji here they are pretty affordable. As far as I can tell people from Chen village want people to understand how to do taiji correctly and want people to share the information. My view ...
A couple things come to mind.
There actually is a few Chen classes with-in a 30 minute trip from me. These people all have at-least 20 years in Chen.
So how come when it comes to actually applying the art, they don't have the answers?
Even Appledog who stated that he is a taiji judge, did not even understand my comments on gears or ball bearings? Hell he even accused me
of making it all up? I can tell you that some of the people doing Chen came from Yang and seem to believe that they know the art.
I was lucky, i found someone who did have a lot of the answers, Those answers did not come cheap for him or for me.
from what i gather, A lot of people don't really care about application. I am totally different in that respect. My natural
disposition in life makes me question everything, "Being assumed" is just not good enough for me. I mean, Look at the time required to
get anywhere in these arts. it's just not worth it to guess, that is why I paid for private lessons.
Thanks