Re: Can it be learned without a school? -- Chen Pan Ling Taijiquan

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Date Posted: Fri, Jan 30 2009, 17:56:13 PST
Author: Karen Jensen
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Subject: Re: Can it be learned without a school?
In reply to: howdydave 's message, "Can it be learned without a school?" on Thu, Jan 08 2009, 10:22:22 PST

My opinion, your mileage may vary -
If you have a good foundation, then you can progress on your own and take a workshop or private lesson as possible for the corrections. You won't progress as fast but you can progress
-but-
you have to do more work than you would just being a student. You will have to pay attention in every posture to foot position, weight distribution, posture, body angles, breaking single moves in the form into smaller sequences. You can videotape yourself to gain some perspective on what you look like. Watch videotapes of your current teacher and Mr. Chen for comparison.

If you are already paying attention to the principles and details of the form, and have good proprioceptive sense, you can do well.

Ask your instructor what they think (and tell Brian and Jim hello from Karen).

I understand your concern. I learned the first 2/3 of the Cheng Man Ching form because there were never enough students for the last third. But what I learned in the first 2/3 were many things that have applied in martial arts training.

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