No matter what you hear or say, you don’t use Tai Ji (or any martial art!) for self defence. Most of the time anyway. You can read this story here if u need some convincing. When learning Tai Ji (or when learning any other martial art), the place where you learn tries to provide a [...]
I’ve talked a lot about letting go. I thought I was letting go, but I wasn’t. I still do the same things as my opponent do. I use the same mentality to overcome their incompetence. Making me as incompetent as they are. I thought I was relaxing. I thought I was using less strength. I [...]
I don’t date my wife enough. When I was at work, I have regular meetings with my team. It was an effective way to get updates with what’s going on, what went right, what went wrong, how can we solve the problem etc. Most of the time I try to probe answers from the other [...]
Shifting my weight from left to right is not much of a problem, until Tai Chi comes and muddle things up. Practising Tai Ji slowly brings me acutely aware of how this shift happens. I’ve always thought that as you shift, one foot will be pushing off to lead to another foot. It’s like how [...]
