Interesting. Any idea of why? Have you moved back to the bagua (if I recall correctly)?
I did start training Bagua and I got through a Qigong sequence that is awesome and I still do but then bagua was done too. However the person I was training bagua with was at one time one of my Xingyi teacher and the need for Xingyi was too great so I am back training xingyi and rather happy about it.
Maybe you need a break to focus on your other areas of interest like hitting trees?
:hmm: GOOD IDEA!!!! :EG:
Focusing on xingyiquan but recently something that surprised that I took interest in but not sure I am going to train it or not yet. Either way, as long as my knees hold out Xingyi stays. There is more I am thinking about too, but it all depends on my knees and whether or not IÂ’m too old and beat-up. And one of those things I already asked you about
Sadly,
I've gone through this years ago as well. Yet, somehow, I keep telling myself I'll pick it up again. The years go by and nothing physically speaking. The interest is always there for watching, studying, researching, etc., but in all honesty, when your mind gets to that point- it's over. The more you fight with it, the bigger the disdain will grow inside you. I think it's over, though you may dabble here and there.
I have hit bumps in the Taiji road before but nothing like this. But Xingyi is back and IÂ’m happy about that
I've had that experience, and probably will again. I always find it strange, but then, you know, do something else. Sometimes I look back and think "I wish I had kept doing that", but thoughts run in and out of my head all day long like squirrels. Maybe you'll have the thought to do it again at some point.
Strange journey, this Martial stuff.
Bagua was one of those I wished I had kept that styles as well as a Shandong Province old Style Chen form. The Bagua I went back to but decided at my age it was too complicated to continue and actually expect any level of proficiency. As for the Shandong Province old Style Chen form, I still wished I had kept that but I have only known one teacher that knew it and he will no longer teach it. But then even if I kept it likely I would have stopped that a couple months ago as well.
However Xingyi is back and so far so good
MA is a lifestyle choice all of it's own..... you go into it, start the journey, work hard and play harder - changing your routines around pratice and sessions, picking up the odd award (belt) and then you just reach the end of the conveyor belt and it's like wtf am i supposed to do next ?????
i've felt that many a time and not always after a viscious scrap either -- the training becomes monotonous and boring, your coach is just screaming the same s$%t at you all the time - new students turn up that aren't actually "into" it like you are and you get disillusioned with it all.
no one can just call it a day - it's always there in the back of your head, the training the conditioning the hard work that it took to become as good as you are never goes away - think that you'll just go back into your basement and carry on as per usual cos you've been doing it for far too long to ignore it
give yourself a slap and carry on
Been there before, this is different and I canÂ’t get myself to do it at all. But there is xingyi and another thing that caught my interest that surprised me as well as a possible training path that popped into my head after the taiji just stopped. But most of that depends on my knees.
I use to do a lot of other styles I no longer do, but none as long as I have done taijiquan
Sorry to hear you stopped doing something that you seemed to enjoy so much. Perhaps you will start again in the future.
Life takes some strange turns for reasons we are not able to figure out. There may be a reason that you will fighure out in the future if you do not push your thoughts on it to much.
Having stopped doing an art I loved for some reason I found that my personality seemed to change as time when by. It changed so much so that my wife told me to start studying again or move out as I had become a real ....... when I was not studying.
My wife has called me martial arts crazy since we were datingÂ…tells her family I am tooÂ…and theyÂ’re all in China
I was entirely unable to train for a while and I did change, became more irritable at home and more depressed at work. When I could get back to taiji I started to feel better, But there have been bumps in the taiji road before and I got over them, but this time felt very different.
I was going nuts not training anything and I could not get myself to train taijiquan and that is what got me back to bagua and through that back to Xingyiquan.
Once I seemed to except that Taiji was done this entire idea for training popped into my head. Now if my knees and age will allow me to do it IÂ’ll be fine.
Then just last week I came across something that caught my interest and no one is more surprised than I am about it since I had the opportunity to train it before, actually did for a bit, and then stopped. Mostly out of arrogance associated with the fact I did “Traditional Yang Style” taijiquan and my “lineage” in that style, looking back that was silly and a rather bad reason for that assessment.
But Xingyi first and the rest laterÂ…hopefully
