We put up a performance today at Buddhist
Tzu Chi Foundation in Singapore. It started with a group performance of an excerpt of
Yang style taijiquan.
Followed by a performance of
Chen style taiji sword.
I think the
takeaway from the performance is not the performance itself (though it did give all of us experience in performing in front of an audience), but the additional practice that we went through, which helped us to correct some of our mistakes. Another important takeaway is the ability to
practise as a group, so that we follow each other rather than keep to our own individual rhythms.
Followed by a performance of Chen style taiji sword.
I think the takeaway from the performance is not the performance itself (though it did give all of us experience in performing in front of an audience), but the additional practice that we went through, which helped us to correct some of our mistakes. Another important takeaway is the ability to practise as a group, so that we follow each other rather than keep to our own individual rhythms.
very true.if not for the performance,we will not be "force" to adjust to the group speed.
ReplyDelete1 qn comes across my mind. Being a good taichi player, does it means that he/her can fit into any group and blend into the group's pace/speed?
Try asking Mr Kwek, but I think he would say yes. If you are good, you can adjust to any speed. Since taiji is about adjusting to the speed of your opponent. If he is slow, you are slow, if he is fast, you are fast. He talked briefly about this before and I noted this down in a previous entry.
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