Hi chaps - not posted for a while as I took a 2 month break from training whilst I decided what I was trying to achieve
Anyway - I've found that the break did me a lot of good (my conditioning was shot though - nearly broke my wrist on the bag) - I've been able to isolate a lot of problems that I was unaware of before.
One thing that still eludes me (been training Taiji for nearly 4 years now) is flow. I still go through the form movement by movement - I don't feel that I'm pausing between postures, but I do feel like I'm hiccupping/breaking after each movement. For example - if I'm going from single whip to raise hands I complete the single whip, and then break before I drive into raise hands.
I've recorded myself doing it and it isn't visually obvious, but I can feel it happening. I thought maybe it's just where my waist has recoiled after the strike - to go into raise hands I need to turn my waist clockwise again, so maybe the break is just the waist reversing direction. I certainly don't feel dead or double weighted...
comments?