Long Time No See

Well, it has been a long time since i posted anything on so i'll write something today. Recently i was surfing the net when i found many interesting stuff!

The first one is video clips of members of great Dong family performing their taichi from www.chipellis.com. They are simply incredible! You can see that they are really demonstrating what we always read in the books and old writings! The push hands practises were really incredible too! It is said that Dong Hu Ling was welcome to any challenges when he set up school in Thailand and never fell to even one. That shows his skill.

The next was of Don Doherty. The guy who was a student of Cheng Tin-Hung, the Taichi Bodyguard. What he says and teaches sounds incredible and i would really want to see it. He also mentioned a push hand duel he had with Chu King-Hung which the latter lost terribly. Although i don't know much about Yang Sau Ching, I think it is safe to assume he has a considerable skill since he trained directly under his father for 19 years. However i feel that the disciple's skill is not a reflection of the master's skill as the master may not be a good teacher or the disciple not an observant one. So when he expressed doubts on Master Yang Cheng Fu's skill and tradition, i believe that it is unfounded. Nevertheless, kudos to him for being able to spread the message that Taichi is really a formidable martial art around the world.
This article also got me interested in Cheng Tin-hung and i'll be researching on him.

Recently, i was at the Tiancai International Chen Style Taichi Competition, and it was quite an eye opener. Pity i missed the second day of the competition and the performance part as i had to do some lousy guard duty in camp! Although my fellow senior only managed to clinch a silver medal, my fellow junior who has only learnt for 6 months managed to beat my senior who has practised for like 10 years by 0.01 points in scores! Quite incredible huh! My fellow junior has not even finished learning the whole Yilu routine! Looks like there is still hope for taichi as genuises emerge all the time! Which means i'll have to work doubly hard so as not to loose out to them! In the competition, there were even small kids competing in the weapon section. In due time, i think they will be so damn good! What potential!

As for me now, i am in a sad state, sick with fever and a terrible cough, i could not practise taichi for nearly a week now. But sometimes, i find a period of break actually helps me to get new insights on taichi. While normal practices strenghten the basics. Hopefully i can recover soon enough to get on with my practise!