Xue Sheng
All weight is underside
I have returned to my Yang Sifus class. We had a bit of a meeting last week and it appears that he may wish to find that happy medium between the martial arts tai chi people and the health tai chi people. Which means he will not force them to do stuff they dont want and let them go stand on the sidelines and have there social hour while he teaches those that want to learn real tai chi.
I went to my first class in about 6 months I get beat on, to be honest I was rather happy about this because this is the way Sifu use to be.
We went through, as a class, the long form, the short dao form, the long dao form and bit of a discussion about 13 postures and then the long straight sword form. After going through the entire form he took me aside and told the rest of the class to work on push hands or they were welcome to follow along with us. He broke down the first 10 or so movements of the sword form into great detail, which means I had to do the first 10 or so postures 20 times or more. 1 trough 10 with correction followed by 1 through 10 with correction and then repeat and of course there where the STOP and hold the posture while he corrected. This is the way it use to be in the advanced class. The rest of the advanced class stopped after 2 times and went to the sidelines for their social hour. Sadly none of the advanced students were there that use to be, they are all gone. Hopefully he wants to bring this back to real tai chi but after a meeting and one class I certainly cannot tell if this is what it is or not but I am willing to see.
After class there was also some discussion about me helping out in the first class with push hands training as well, but that remains to be seen.
I can say that even though I have been doing Sanda training, Xingyi Santi shi, Yang style forms and even those Matt Furey Hindu squats and wall chair thing my legs are still tired today, not sore but tired and it is a good feeling. Maybe not as good as smacking a tree but I like it just the same.
I am committed to 15 weeks that is all, if it continues this way I will continue but if it goes back to what it had become I will leave and not return. Time will tell
I went to my first class in about 6 months I get beat on, to be honest I was rather happy about this because this is the way Sifu use to be.
We went through, as a class, the long form, the short dao form, the long dao form and bit of a discussion about 13 postures and then the long straight sword form. After going through the entire form he took me aside and told the rest of the class to work on push hands or they were welcome to follow along with us. He broke down the first 10 or so movements of the sword form into great detail, which means I had to do the first 10 or so postures 20 times or more. 1 trough 10 with correction followed by 1 through 10 with correction and then repeat and of course there where the STOP and hold the posture while he corrected. This is the way it use to be in the advanced class. The rest of the advanced class stopped after 2 times and went to the sidelines for their social hour. Sadly none of the advanced students were there that use to be, they are all gone. Hopefully he wants to bring this back to real tai chi but after a meeting and one class I certainly cannot tell if this is what it is or not but I am willing to see.
After class there was also some discussion about me helping out in the first class with push hands training as well, but that remains to be seen.
I can say that even though I have been doing Sanda training, Xingyi Santi shi, Yang style forms and even those Matt Furey Hindu squats and wall chair thing my legs are still tired today, not sore but tired and it is a good feeling. Maybe not as good as smacking a tree but I like it just the same.
I am committed to 15 weeks that is all, if it continues this way I will continue but if it goes back to what it had become I will leave and not return. Time will tell