I'm the idiot that picked up a golf club to see if I could learn anything about Tai Chi with it. I believe I may be onto something. There is a very fine line between wacking a golf ball over 200 yards and shanking it 10 feet every time. Watching the different swings they appear almost identical, but to the swinger they are very different. As soon as I stopped using my right arm in the swing suddenly I could hit good almost every time. (Interesting that keeping one arm yang and other yin while using both in the swing is the correct technique, a Tai Chi principle)
My question is how do you know when you are doing Tai Chi correctly? I believe you can do the forms and postures and appear to be nearly perfect and be completely wrong, this is where lineage would come in. With Tai Chi there is no ball to see flying down the driving range. I also know that almost inperceptable changes are the difference between correct and wasting your time.
Is the marker for correctness winning at push hands every time? Feeling the chi flower stronger and easier? Splitting a heavy bag with a single strike? Anyone have ideas here?
My question is how do you know when you are doing Tai Chi correctly? I believe you can do the forms and postures and appear to be nearly perfect and be completely wrong, this is where lineage would come in. With Tai Chi there is no ball to see flying down the driving range. I also know that almost inperceptable changes are the difference between correct and wasting your time.
Is the marker for correctness winning at push hands every time? Feeling the chi flower stronger and easier? Splitting a heavy bag with a single strike? Anyone have ideas here?