Taiji is boring to watch
Kind of a silly topic but thought i would see what others thought anyway.
We do a lot of demo's at my school and one thing i cant help noticing. Taiji is *really* boring to watch by and large.
I mean i practice the art and i downloaded a clip of a guy doing the same form i practice and i was bored about 2mins in.
I try to watch the other schools TC masters as well and even when i can see great still i still cant help thinking - boring.
Its the opposite to actualy practice, to practice feels wonderfull but to watch just feels... yeah you know what im gonna say, boring.
Is this just me?
Am i really that impatient i cant even handle watching other people performing the art i actualy practice? Bagua i can happily watch all day.
Also if others do demo's of Taiji how do you get around this aspect?
Old people seem to be the opposite, they seem to be able to watch it for hours on end.
Try watching the video on Erle's site where he trys to discribe in painfully boring detail the long Yang form. Its quite possibly the most mindblowingly fustrating thing ive ever tried to sit though. I couldnt even watch the first few postures without tearing my hair out.
Up and down, forward and backward, left and right, its all the same. All of this is done with the mind, not externaly.
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