johnwang wrote:
What's your opinion on this approach?
Appledog wrote:everything wrote:Everyone interested in any MA would do well to start with any kind of wrestling.
But he said this is taiji for health.
It would be too easy to point out that "everyone agrees" that the method and practice of Tai Chi for health is the same as that of Tai Chi for martial arts; otherwise it wouldn't be Tai Chi and/or it wouldn't work. That's why I clarified that any new method had to explain why it was a form of Tai Chi and not merely of some other art (including generic qigong). I wanted to emphasize this because I think when people bring up "Tai Chi for Health" what they are really doing is not Tai Chi but just generic qigong (which may or may not even be "real qigong"). So it's Tai Chi for health then, how is it any different from Eight pieces of Brocade (which is often used as a Tai Chi warmup exercise)?
Essentially, if Taijiquan is a net amalgamation of daoyin and tuina exercises along with the 13 postures and some monastic or folk art like red fist or tongbeiquan, then isn't "tai chi for health" just a misnomer for generic daoyin, meditation, yoga or heck just jogging around the park? Why drag the "martial art" into it if you're not going to teach it? And then call it a martial art, given that's the one thing you're planning on NOT teaching people?
(Edit: In my original message I commended that I thought we as a culture knew what "Taiji for health" means. Upon some reflection I actually think we don't, and it's going to be even more important in the future to delineate these things. As it turns out when I survey 'Tai Chi for Health' I find that there is no actual Tai Chi being taught there, and I don't think this is a good thing). So when johnwang said "I suggest him to use a different teaching method." I read this as "Don't say it's Tai Chi when it's not, just use some other Qigong method like Eight peices of brocade". Unless we're thinking, he'd get more students and make more money, if he just calls it tai chi and hopes nobody notices.
Bao wrote:If you start with one or a few movements and drills, It’s easier to make sure that the student understand the correct and detailed body method in one and each before learning another one.
johnwang wrote:Bao wrote:If you start with one or a few movements and drills, It’s easier to make sure that the student understand the correct and detailed body method in one and each before learning another one.
I'm glad that at least you understand what I'm trying to say. One doesn't have to learn the whole Taiji form to get the health benefit. If an 80 years old man just drills Peng, Lu, Ji, An combo 1,000 times, he will get the health benefit out of it.
windwalker wrote:Can you define what your meaning of health benefit is that aligns specifically or
uniquely to taiji ?
johnwang wrote:
Few years ago, Austin city council passed a law that MA teaching in the park was not allowed. .
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