I stood up my teacher, with a last minute notice. No wonder he scolded me. It wasn’t intentional, but I was torn between family and learning Tai Ji. Sometimes Tai Ji wins, sometimes family wins.
My teacher encourages us to learn from all, teachers and students alike. Teachers are just formalised labels by institutions such as colleges, universities, and martial art schools. Students are those that these teachers serve because without the students, there is no one to teach.
It’s good to say all these. But sometimes, that’s all that happens [...]
Finding good teachers is difficult everywhere. I’ve posted this question to Jarek Szymanski who started the website China From Inside and he too relates to the difficulty of finding a teacher who can teach the basics, even in China! So where are all the good teachers then? Should we wait for the teacher to appear [...]