Writing about Tai Chi

Though I have thoughts and thoughts about Tai Chi, and I think of sixteen things every hour of study that I might want to expound upon and explore further, it is a very difficult to sit down and write about it.

Which likely explains the relative rareness of specifically topical books in the Dong Tai Chi school, and they're only written by the masters, and the more fantastic students. The Red Book went only published in Chinese for generations, until Alex Dong managed to make a purportedly fantastic translation in the past few years. He has also written another discussion on Tai Chi, finished a couple of years ago, having taken years to write. Even for the masters, writing on Tai Chi is difficult.

When you take into account that the best way to learn Tai Chi is to follow with your body what you see your teacher doing, and the best rule is instructions in fewest words possible, it's imaginable that words cannot capture the scope of the study.

There are Tai Chi magazines, there are text books, and there is me, and folk like me, writing about Tai Chi, but it's just words until you study, and even then, they are just words.

How conceited of me to think I could write about Tai Chi.

Yet I will still write, but I will know as I study that writing about what I study is much less important than why and how I study, and what I learn from my study. It will take the pressure off the constant search for thoughts to write about. And it gives me direction, for writing with out direction is like studying Tai Chi without purpose.