Quigga wrote:StormStrider, I liked the pics in the PDF. Will give it a read some time
Met Ben before meeting my last taiji teacher
Ben was a very kind, funny, and interesting guy...
In some of our talks we talked about "Qi"
Something that he very much held as a fact as most taiji teachers of his level do.
Skeptical of some of the claims by another famous local teacher in the area demoing what he could do with it.....
Chin Shifu, "David Chin" lama hop gar shifu...
Talked with Chin, Shifu long after having met and practiced with my last taiji teacher at the time...
Was working on a project involving some concepts from Tibetan white crane and taiji
asking his thoughts on it..
He was quite supportive although in the end the project didn't work out..
Interesting enough he echoed some of the same comments as Ben Lo..
In my talks with him, while we didn't agree on some things
out of respect and understanding never felt the need to push it...
As there were many other things we did share common views on...
Mentioning both teachers who believed in and used something called "Qi" as of yet "unproven"
limiting it to their own experiences while at the same time using it to explain to others
what they could not understand..
It is interesting...
now both gone..as we all will be at some point..