by Ad_B on Mon Apr 18, 2022 11:52 pm
Hello folks.
Thankyou for this forum and all of the members who share their valuable ideas.
Thats why I'm introducing after many years a lurker and learner is to say thankyou but also I have questions and surprisingly, some possible answers to some things so if I question or answer its only from the point of view of a humble student and enquirer.
I practise a bastardisation of TJQ based on Cheng Man-ch'ing interpretations and form but with further additions in physical, chemical and spirit cultivation from the cornucopia of ideas, styles, systems and traditions that we have access to in this era of information exchange. If something works for me after trying and training, I'll keep it and treasure it (I'm not a purist except for in proper Wuji, standing, body architecture (+ stretches, massages, diet etc) and Taiji{as I understand it so far}). I don't train for martial skills as such but do appreciate the concept of a martial opponent as an avatar (in the Hinduism sense) for training martial and health elements in order to be better able to wrangle the most common opposing existential forces which IMHO are ones self, ones environment and the '10,000 things' of life (I'm not a martial artist but do appreciate the things of martial arts).
Well, since thats 3 things I'm not about (expert, artist or devotee) so why am I here?...I'll explain myself.
I was born dirt-poor in rural England and so a labourer of all sorts of digging, building, hauling, hefting, hard graft and the culture of beer 'n' skittles that goes with it.
In my early 30's I ditched it to become a Postman thinking that would be easier and was I ever wrong?
Its a daily frantic 3 hour object-lesson game before the rest of the world awakens followed by a full-speed quarter marathon of low to medium level assault course in all weathers with no proper recovery time. 7 years in and in whats supposed to be prime-of-life I was half dead halfway round so there was something wrong, I'd not got used to it or grown into it (it is apparently a common experience therein) and it was exhausting.
Someone asked me to accompany them to a Taichi class for moral support (out of shyness) whilst they settled-in and I did. I went and liked and stayed a bit and put some effort into the things of it and in just 6 weeks was getting (what I'd now suggest were accidental/incidental benefits) a better handle upon my job. I stayed in classes for 3 years and then left to cultivate what I'd learned and to read around the topics, research and develop.
17 years after and much studying and practise and the jobs a doddle, the '10,000 things' are in their proper perspective and this is all due to TJQ and the concepts thereof (inc: daoyin, yogic, neijia, meditation, Zhan zhuang [lots ofZhan zhuang ] bits and bobs).
There were immediate benefits which became incrementally better and better....and still going.
So why am I here?
I just wanted to post a testament somewhere regarding the practical use of TJQ (and related) skill-sets in ordinary life for ordinary people and I still have questions but now no teacher to ask.
Hi folks!
Ad.
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Ad_B on Tue Apr 19, 2022 12:01 am, edited 1 time in total.