Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
I was called a man obsessed in another post and to be honest it made me laugh and I thought it was pretty funny. But this morning after doing “Ba Duan Jin” followed by standing in “Santi shi” it hit me “a man obsessed”
I am training Yang style tai chi, Hebei Xingyiquan and non-sport Sanda/Sanshou and now I am considering Northern Wu style Tai Chi.
Obsessed is by definitions having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something, to preoccupy the mind of excessively, to have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic
And to be honest I do believe I fit the definition at the moment and I am not sure that is a good thing but it is currently the truth.
I have been reworking and reworking my training based on the thought that the old CMA guys were right; internal and external training just don’t mix well and to some extent I feel they are right and at the same time I find that I do not completely agree. I think about this stuff waaaaay to much
But today in santi I began to wonder (and you are not suppose to be wondering in Santi) do the styles that I train impact each other in a negative fashion? And I am beginning to believe they do.
I train 3 styles and I am thinking of a 4th maybe I can handle 2 but I can’t keep up 4 and do the training justice. Like most on MT I work and that takes time and like many on MT I have a family so that takes more time so time is very limited.
What’s the old saying "Jack of all trades, master of none"? I am beginning to think I am going to have to focus on one style, maybe 2. But which one or 2 I cannot say right now. I enjoy Sanda but I am beginning to believe that it is having a negative impact on my Tai Chi but not my Xingyi. I have been doing Yang style for a long time but to be honest (with myself) I am not sure if I should focus on that if I do Sanda or Xingyi. I just started back to Xingyi and I am currently thinking this may be the one to focus on and so far nothing seems to be impacted by sanda; I have found training links to Beijing for training Hebei style Xingyiquan as well. But then there is Northern Wu, my obsession of the moment and I am going to go check out a class soon and that could be it too, at least from what I am reading it may be what I need to so right now (and the main school is in Beijing), and I can see it benefiting my Yang style where I am not exactly sure Xingyi does and I am pretty sure Sanda doesn’t. I think about this stuff waaaaaaay to much too. Oh and did I mention I have to learn Mandarin too, yet another obsession to deal with.
And I have not even scratched the surface of the actual training in connection with this...
Damn I need a vacation... ahhh yes I got it go to Beijing.... to relax..... AHHHH that won't help :uhyeah:
I am training Yang style tai chi, Hebei Xingyiquan and non-sport Sanda/Sanshou and now I am considering Northern Wu style Tai Chi.
Obsessed is by definitions having or showing excessive or compulsive concern with something, to preoccupy the mind of excessively, to have the mind excessively preoccupied with a single emotion or topic
And to be honest I do believe I fit the definition at the moment and I am not sure that is a good thing but it is currently the truth.
I have been reworking and reworking my training based on the thought that the old CMA guys were right; internal and external training just don’t mix well and to some extent I feel they are right and at the same time I find that I do not completely agree. I think about this stuff waaaaay to much
But today in santi I began to wonder (and you are not suppose to be wondering in Santi) do the styles that I train impact each other in a negative fashion? And I am beginning to believe they do.
I train 3 styles and I am thinking of a 4th maybe I can handle 2 but I can’t keep up 4 and do the training justice. Like most on MT I work and that takes time and like many on MT I have a family so that takes more time so time is very limited.
What’s the old saying "Jack of all trades, master of none"? I am beginning to think I am going to have to focus on one style, maybe 2. But which one or 2 I cannot say right now. I enjoy Sanda but I am beginning to believe that it is having a negative impact on my Tai Chi but not my Xingyi. I have been doing Yang style for a long time but to be honest (with myself) I am not sure if I should focus on that if I do Sanda or Xingyi. I just started back to Xingyi and I am currently thinking this may be the one to focus on and so far nothing seems to be impacted by sanda; I have found training links to Beijing for training Hebei style Xingyiquan as well. But then there is Northern Wu, my obsession of the moment and I am going to go check out a class soon and that could be it too, at least from what I am reading it may be what I need to so right now (and the main school is in Beijing), and I can see it benefiting my Yang style where I am not exactly sure Xingyi does and I am pretty sure Sanda doesn’t. I think about this stuff waaaaaaay to much too. Oh and did I mention I have to learn Mandarin too, yet another obsession to deal with.
And I have not even scratched the surface of the actual training in connection with this...
Damn I need a vacation... ahhh yes I got it go to Beijing.... to relax..... AHHHH that won't help :uhyeah: