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r kwek around me and i kept practising because i wanted to catch up with those students who had started learning earlier than me so that i can join in their class and not hold it back when new students started appearing i kept practising so that i remain ahead of them and served as an example for them in this way having peers fellow students served as motivation to keep practising too eventually i reached a stage where master kwek would let me lead his classes this provided me with a pseudo experience of having my own students it also made me practise more because when you are leading a class and teaching others they expect you to be correct meeting the expectations of the students became another motivation for me to keep practising today i am on my own without master kwek to look at my progress no peers to compare my progress with and no students for whom i need to meet their expectations in a way i no longer have external motivation to practise and i seriously feel the impact of this i no longer practise 2 to 5 hours each day every day instead of practising to become better my practice has lapsed into a state of repeating the movements so that i don t forget them i don t feel myself getting better i fear i have gotten worse i only hope that i will find something that would trigger greater intrinsic motivation within me to practise more sigh posted by teck at 17 01 0 comments monday july 01 2024 陈氏太极散手42式发劲 by 朱天才 i bought this video cd vcd a long while ago it is a set of single practical taiji moves being passed down by master zhu tiancai i thought i would just list down the names of the moves here for archival purposes 起势 1 腰拦肘 2 上挑肘 3 摘星掌 4 穿心肘 5 左背靠 6 左挒 7 右背靠 8 右挒 9 上掼拳右 10 外摆拳右 11 里合拳右 12 前肩靠右 13 锁喉 14 背摔 15 迎门掌 16 左採 17 索摔 18 撩阴掌 19 前肩靠左 20 拦腰掌 21 连环肘 22 上掼拳左 23 外摆拳左 24 里合拳左 25 右採 26 索摔 27 外摆里摔右 28 挂肘摔 29 右臀靠 30 左棚 31 左捛摔 32 外摆里摔左 33 挂肘摔 34 左臀靠 35 右棚 36 右捛摔 37 双摆拳 38 双崩拳 39 双拳迎门 40 双按掌 41 迎门靠 42 双推掌 收势 hope this list helps people who are looking for such information posted by teck at 15 55 0 comments monday january 01 2024 tracking my training for 2024 continuing the practice in 2015 carried on till 2023 i have been tracking my training and will also do so for 2024 for 2023 i practised 66 sets of chen style old frame first routine 66 sets of yang style 108 108 sets of sun style taijiquan total 240 sets of taijiquan in a year 87 sets of chen style taijijian 87 sets of yang style taijijian total 174 sets of taijijian in a year 145 sets of yang style taijidao and also many hours of basic exercises and single moves total number of practice hours in 2023 313 5 hours again for 2023 i have not been keeping my training log however the amount of practice has gone up from 2022 still i want to practise more in 2024 posted by teck at 17 52 12 comments saturday december 09 2023 parallels in learning it is almost the end of 2023 yet i have not posted anything so this is the first post of 2023 and it will be about the parallels in learning that i picked up from my experience in learning taiji and calligraphy recently i have been putting a lot of time into calligraphy practice which all started because i needed to undergo grading followed by preparing for an exhibition after submitting my piece for the exhibition i was actually not very satisfied and decided to put a lot more time into practice and have been practising calligraphy for one to two hours almost every day i found a parallel with my taiji journey when i first started it was practice once a week but i soon started to join my teacher s other classes when i could about a year after learning from master kwek i entered a local taiji competition and working towards this competition became the reason for intensifying my taiji training back then although i came away with a silver medal i was not satisfied and it spurred me on to spend even more time on taiji training similarly when i had to take part in a performance in front of queen elizabeth ii that became the reason for me to learn yang style from my teacher and work toward become good enough to perform while it is always best that we are motivated to put a lot of time into practice for most people it is hard to find that motivation or discipline that is why there are competitions and performances in taiji which i find to be similar to grading and exhibitions in calligraphy they serve as a goal or reason to improve providing a motivation that fuels the discipline for training today i continue to practise taiji daily but not as intense anymore i guess i need to find some motivation again i also didn t managed to go back to singapore this year which is a pity i hope master kwek is well if i do go back next year i guess my motivation would be to show master kwek that i had improved and not dropped in standard posted by teck at 17 52 0 comments sunday january 01 2023 tracking my training for 2023 continuing the practice in 2015 carried on till 2022 i have been tracking my training and will also do so for 2023 for 2022 i practised 57 sets of chen style old frame first routine 57 sets of yang style 108 88 sets of sun style taijiquan total 202 sets of taijiquan in a year 66 sets of chen style taijijian 66 sets of yang style taijijian total 132 sets of taijijian in a year 110 sets of yang style taijidao and also many hours of basic exercises and single moves total number of practice hours in 2022 288 hours again for 2022 i have not been keeping my training log and again the amount of practice has gone down from 2021 i really need to practise more in 2023 posted by teck at 11 52 12 comments saturday august 06 2022 short trip home finally after 3 years i managed to take a short trip home as part of this trip i visited my teacher master kwek a few months ago he was hospitalised for covid 19 and although he is fine now his memory is starting to fail still while sitting down his ting jing was still as good and he could point out my problem areas easily as his health wasn t really good i couldn t really get him to see me practising at the void deck instead i practised a few moves in his living room while he gave some pointers the most important pointer i got from him is that it is more important to practise each move correctly than to try and complete an entire routine if i am short of time i should just practise a few moves slowly and correctly for example my kua still sticks out sometimes i had not really noticed it on my own but master kwek pointed it out right away the important thing is to practise each move correctly and if i had been doing so i probably would have paid more attention to my kua and worked harder on it bottom line practice only counts if it is done correctly otherwise it is just a waste of time anyway after visiting him at night i drop by to the nearby coffee shop and bought hor fun for supper something that i used to do posted by teck at 15 45 0 comments friday may 06 2022 my collection of matsuda ryuchi books this is my collection of books by matsuda ryuchi 松田隆智 sensei the entire journey started with the 拳児 manga series this is the original 21 volume set and this is the republished 11 volume set he has also written books about his quest to find the strongest punch his later works also include two books about the results of his years of pursuing martial arts i actually summarized the contents of one of them previously his earlier works are instructional books on chinese martial arts at a time when they were still not well known in japan of course talk about matsuda sensei and you cannot avoid talking about bajiquan and he has instructional books on that too plus an overview of chinese martial arts more like a research compilation and he was also featured in japanese magazines that focused on chinese martial arts here are some of those issues that i have which featured matsuda sensei as you can see from his wikipedia entry he has written many other books some of which i do not own maybe someday posted by teck at 21 52 0 comments about being on my own in august 2015 i left singapore and moved to japan and basically came to be on my own when it comes to my taiji journey of course i do try to return to singapore when i can and let my teacher mr kwek take a look at my progress on this journey covid 19 kind of threw this into limbo and it has been a while since i was able to return to singapore so i am kind of really on my own for a while now and it is not just in taiji last year my calligraphy teacher moved to another prefecture at one end of honshu which also means i no longer have the chance to directly learn from her under her i have reached the stage when i am ready to go for grading to become a calligraphy teacher in both taiji and calligraphy it is when i am on my own that i actually become a lot more motivated to practise of course i had been practising a lot of taiji when i was in singapore under mr kwek but there were stretches when work prevented me from going for classes and during those stretches i didn t really practise on my own too but now without a teacher or regular classes to attend i end up trying to practise every day on my own whether it is routines or just basic exercises while the total amount of time spent on practices may have dropped from my peak while in singapore i would say i am more consistent in the amount of practice similarly ever since my calligraphy teacher moved away i have been practising more often on my own in the past i wasn t really a good student practising calligraphy like only for the minimum required but now i will take my own initiative to practise to write things and such i guess it is when i am truly on my own that i feel motivated or anxiety for that matter to keep practising so that i can at least maintain my standard if not get better still to be able to do this requires a certain level of skill before becoming independent if i had not reached my level when i left singapore i would not know what is good or bad and no amount of practising on my own would help instead it would just mean i keep repeating my mistakes until they become helplessly ingrained into me for calligraphy because i have reached this certain level i am able to independently assess my own pieces and know how to make each practice piece better in conclusion i think it is okay to be on your own but only after you have reached a certain level that allows you to be able to point out your own mistakes to know what is good and bad before reaching that stage trying to practise on your own actually becomes a hindrance for reaching greater heights posted by teck at 16 54 0 comments tuesday may 03 2022 manga kenji 拳児 i am a fan of matsuda ryuchi sensei and have written previously about one of his books as well as his passing i actually got to know about matsuda sensei because of his manga series kenji 拳兒 back when i was still in junior college i had read the series translated into chinese and when i was studying in japan luck had it that the publisher was doing a rerun of the series publishing them in 11 volumes instead of the original 21 so i dutifully went to the bookstore regularly to buy new volumes as they were released well recently i finally managed to get myself a set of the original 21 volume set on yahoo auctions this is really just a i want to collect them all mission rather than my desire to read the manga since i have already read it before still i am really happy because this set of manga is really a bit of martial arts history or rather a part of my taiji journey since i first read it in junior college which was also when i first started learning taiji it has been a while since i wrote on this blog and this post is really unrelated to taiji but i do have something i want to write about and will try to do that soon posted by teck at 21 48 0 comments saturday january 01 2022 tracking my training for 2022 continuing the practice in 2015 carried on till 2021 i have been tracking my training and will also do so for 2022 for 2021 i practised 58 sets of chen style old frame first routine 58 sets of yang style 108 102 sets of sun style taijiquan total 218 sets of taijiquan in a year 105 sets of chen style taijijian 105 sets of yang style taijijian total 210 sets of taijijian in a year 175 sets of yang style taijidao and also many hours of basic exercises and single moves total number of practice hours in 2021 312 hours again for 2021 i have not been keeping my training log and the amount of practice has gone down from 2020 so i am looking forward to increasing the amount of practice in 2022 posted by teck at 00 55 12 comments friday september 10 2021 the misconception about not using force in taiji we keep talking about not using force but not using force should not be taken literally after all taiji is a martial art and there is no martial art that does not use force the term not using force is actually a technical term that is used to set taiji apart from other forms of martial arts instead of a more or less continuous application of force taiji is about the selective and minimum use of force the least amount of force is used to achieve the desired effect this is the minimum part in order to allow this small force to have the maximum effect it needs to be applied at the right time this is the selective part it is this selective and minimum use of force that allows an old taiji practitioner to still be able to neutralise attacks an old person is definitely not as strong as a young one but by using whatever little force that old person has at the right time he or she is able to change the trajectory of any incoming attack to render it harmless and that is why we train only through training can we learn to recognise what this right moment is and what the minimum force required is the use of the term not using force during training is a reminder to ourselves that we are here to find that right moment and minimum force it is not using force that sets us apart from other forms of martial arts not using force is not literal it is the name given to a concept the concept of selective and minimum use of force it is only through understanding the concept behind the label that we can practise correctly toward the desired ideal state posted by teck at 11 22 0 comments thursday july 29 2021 power comes from speed and being relaxed taiji is a martial art like all martial arts it is about the manifestation and application of power and like all martial arts power comes from the speed generated when one is relaxed force mass x acceleration at any point in time our mass is fixed so that only thing that we can change is acceleration this is the point of being relaxed being relaxed helps us to go from zero to a high speed in less time this gives a higher value of acceleration compared to being rigid the goal is the same to be relaxed so that you can achieve the maximum acceleration the way to get there is usually split into two external martial arts 外家 and internal martial arts 内家 in simple terms external marti...