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Rem's Tai Chi Page
Why do Tai Chi?
There are many different reasons for doing Tai Chi.
Some people do it for spiritual enlightenment.
I had already had spiritual enlightenment before I started Tai Chi, so that didn't inspire me.
Some do it for health. I think Tai Chi is good for my health (which is nice),
but that didn't inspire me to do it.
What inspired me is it's application as a martial art.
Consequently it became more of a hobby that fascinated me than the pursuit of a useful skill.
Tai Chi is a formidable combat art, but the time I've spent practising it
is not justifiable in terms of the likelyhood that I will need such self defence skills.
I thought Tai Chi is that thing where people move really slowly?
It is.
But what use is it as self defence?
A good question, but hard to explain.
It's a bit like trying to explain quantum physics and
relativity to someone who is just coming to grips with
Newtonian mechanics.
However I'll try to give a somewhat simplified explanation.
It should be noted that I'm no Tai Chi master,
and have plenty to learn about the intricate art of Tai Chi myself.
Tai Chi focuses on using precise minimal movements to overcome your opponent.
Tai Chi uses refined gentle movements rather than brute force and large movements.
Practitioners aim to explore, understand and use to their advantage every little
movement that their body (andtheir opponents body) makes.
Imagine you have a gnarled branch of wood,
if your want to exploreevery little detail of it by feel you don't move your
hand very quickly from one end to other.
Instead you'd take your time, carefully following all the contours.
Likewise Tai Chi practitioners make the movements slowly,
to explore and gain understanding of all the subtle movements and weight changes.
Appearances can be deceiving, the amount of detail in those slow graceful movement
is phenomenal. In Tai Chi you should always be striving to make your moves more refined.
It seems that the more you know the more you realise how little you know.
Being continually relaxed,
comfortable and well balanced are fundamental to Tai Chi.
While practising a form these are constantly being worked on.
Fast movements let you cheat and 'wing it' through unstable transitions
to get from one position to another.
If you do the moves slowly you can work out all the transitions,
which are of great importance to Tai Chi.
Through practising the moves slowly you learn to do them in a relaxed way
while becoming more aware of the way your body moves.
Likewise in Tai Chi you also learn to 'listen' to the movements of your opponent by touch.
You strive to be aware of every move they make,
and to be aware of where their centre of balance is.
If you are aware of your opponents centre of mass and movements and are relaxed
and uncommitted yourself,
you can follow their movements.
Ideally you are no longer worried what they do,
because you are confident that whatever they do you can avoid harm to yourself.
If the opponent thrusts in a given direction that is not a problem because you will
already have shifted your weight so you can comfortably move out of the way when
they get there.
However you can follow their movement and exploit their movementby giving them
a little helping hand in the right direction to put them off balance and control them.
At the same time a Tai Chi practitioner hides their own moves,
by virtue of being relaxed and subtle, from the opponent.
Skilled Tai Chi practitioners follow the movements of their opponents,
and by using subtle movements and barely more than a light touch deflect attacks
directed at them and take advantage of the opponents own movements to put them off balance.
The more relaxed they are the better than can do this.
To practice using brute force and fast movements would be counter productive.
Can Tai Chi practitioners deal with martial arts like Karate and Tae Kwon Do?
Yes, as outlined above, once mastered, with trivial seeming ease.
As a result of my personal observations of Tai Chi and other marital arts
(including my own prior experience with Tae KwonDo)
I'm convinced that Tai Chi (once mastered) can deal with anything the
disciplines of Karate, Tae Kwon Do, Judo, can produce.
However Tai Chi is not an easy art to master, and the other arts are more effective
in the short term.
But at some pointTai Chi does catch up, and continues to improve far beyond what
practitionersof Karate and other hard martial arts can hope to achieve.
Tai Chi masters have frequently demonstrated they have no difficulty in
dealing with such martial arts, while the practitioners of hard arts more
often than not don't even know what hit them.
Why don't more people do Tai Chi if it's so effective.
You tell me!
I can theorise about some of the reasons.
Mainly a misunderstanding of what Tai Chiis,
and a lack of good teachers and an abundance of bad teachers who don't
understand how to apply Tai Chi as a martial art.
Also a lack of some of the excitement and glamour that other martial arts offer.
In a martial art demonstrations all martial arts tend to defeat the opponent.
However the strengths of Tai Chi mean that people don't understand how it's done,
and attackers are fended off with little movement. However effective Tai Chi may be,
this looks less exiting and less effective to observers. Worse still,
because they can't understand how it is done and it looks so subtle,
they may draw the conclusion the attackers who go flying at seeminglythe slightest
touch are faking,
or at least exaggerating the results.
And lastly, learning Tai Chi is not easy.
It takes many years of diligent correct practice before it really starts to pay off.
And as there are many bad teachers out there,
many people who do take up Tai Chi are wasting their time (for self defence purposes anyway).
If you practice Tai Chi incorrectly you can easily do so for twenty years and achieve
virtually nothing.
And there are manypeople in this situation with Tai Chi.
What exactly is 'Chi' anyway?
Chi means many different things to different people.
Sometimes it correlates roughly with energy or force,
but the way I hear it used it more often than not means "I don't understand".
As such it is a useful word, as it rapidly makes you aware of the gaps
in the speaker's knowledge.
When I ask someone a question about Tai Chiand they use Chi as an explanation
I know not to bother asking them again - they don't understand it themselves.
There is nothing mystical or supernatural about Tai Chi or in it'sapplication
as a formidable combat art.
However peoples natural inclination to immediately assume such forces are at work
when they don't understand how something works rears it's ugly head frequently
with Tai Chi.
Conversely if they believe supernatural/mystical power is at work then they don't
understand what is really going on.
This is certainly true for Tai Chi!
My personal observation reveals a very close correlation between those who don't
understand Tai Chi and those who attribute things to Chi.
The following table illustrates how to interpret statements people make involving Chi.
Chi term.What this really means in plain English.
He used Chi.I don't understand how he did that.
I use Chi.I don't understand what I'm doing.
Use Chi.I don't know how you should do it.
I lift my arms using Chi.I don't understand how my arms lift.
I transfer my weight with Chi.I don't understand how my weight changes.
Having said all this it should be noted that to some people the term Chi has no
mystical or supernatural interpretations.
To them it corresponds to concepts which are consistent with the laws of physics,
and does not indicate a lack of understanding.
This is usually be quite obvious from the way they use the word.
It is when Chi is used to explain physical manifestations but cannot itself be explained
physically that you should find a better source of information.
Who do you learn Tai Chi from?
I learn from Master Yek Sing Ong.
He was a student of Huang Sheng Shyan who was a student of Cheng Man Ching.
Master Yek is a very good Tai Chipractictioner, and is a patient inspirational
teacher who pays attention to detail.
In my opinion he is the best instructor in the area where I live (Auckland, New Zealand),
an opinion that seems to be shared by students who visit from other parts of the country
and from other countries to train with him.
More details about Sing Ong Tai Chi can be found at
http://www.singongtaichi.com/.
Please don't email me with questions about Tai Chi.
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