I have struggled to be a good student. I am assisting my current teacher now, and at the same time learning how to be a good teacher. This made me realise that being a good student is more difficult than I thought! Let’s see what a teacher has to go through for a typical class [...]
Ok, a recent weigh in clocks my weight at 76.7kg. I have to say, it does feel like I’ve swallowed a Boeing 767! I’m 1.76m tall, which puts my Body Mass Index at 24.76, which according to the same people who devised the Body Mass Index, that I am bordering on being overweight. I can’t [...]
There’s a challenge over at Cook Ding’s to dedicate just over a month to train/learn something you’ve been wanting to. The challenge read as follows: … from Ash Wednesday (tomorrow) until Easter (April 8), train every day, without fail, no excuses. It’s not as easy as it sounds. Some days, you might only be able [...]
Learning tai ji is hard work. I guess that’s true with learning anything! The more common excuse for procastination (to learn) is that “I’m not in the mood”. Taking tai ji as an example, it’s highly dependent on the internal state of mind on what you actually learn in a training session. When i’m not [...]
