another advice – if you charge too cheap students will come as and when they feel like it. i charge by the hour and in the hundreds but the serious student will show up. those who can’t pay or don’t want to pay that high, i recommend to go elsewhere.

but those who come i teach very indepth and go home on a high with a head chokeful of info that will take them years to digest.

if you want to make class interesting the best way is to teach drills followed by push hands. in this way the students can see some payoff right away. but its not a good way to teach taiji but it keeps them interested.

if you want to focus on teaching form, then show them something ordinary that they can’t do. for example doing a 360 backflip is difficult but can be done with training. try showing a simple pushing movement that can unbalance them no matter how hard they try to resist. show them how effortless it can be. better still do it standing on one leg. once their interest is piqued tell them that this can be learned and mastered through the form and then show them all the small details in the form that teaches them the principles to do this. most of the time you only have to tell them 1 or 2 before their mind cannot take it because the complexity of the simplicity is too much for them to digest.

now you see the advantage of a gathering? you can swap points with other people……..