Appledog wrote:oragami_itto wrote:I don't disagree with any of that at all.
Thanks. it does bother me however that my explanation didn't end the thread.Trip touched on what I meant to say; that double-weightedness is really just a straw-man argument. When people are double weighted in the practice of taijiquan, their form is simply wrong, i.e. from the basic outset, their teacher didn't know how to teach them, or maybe they are a bad student. Thinking about the problem I cannot understand how a student can remain double weighted and still have practiced taiji a lot. I mean, nobody is perfect, but not to understand the concept seems almost insane to me, if someone has been practicing properly for a number of years.
I mean one of the first things I said is "the opposite of double weightedness is good taijiquan". Do good taijiquan and you won't be double weighted. Unless somebody puts you in a dw position.
The quite keeps coming up though, that "when someone practices for a number of years and still ain't got shit, they probably have a problem with double weighting". I paraphrase.
So it's important, but yeah we have talked it into the ground.