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Originally Posted by Bajifan  I think that's fine, I'm all for people just practicing something for a very specific benefit and ignoring the rest... as long as they don't try and pass themselves off as expert teachers later on. without having a more complete understanding of the system. Unfortunately, a lot of rather healthy but half trained people end up charging money as teachers and passing on poor information about taiji quan. And since they don't know fully what they're doing, their own teaching is diluted diluted even further too the point where what they teach is only about as beneficial as walking around waving your arms in the air in slow motion :P |
I believe Tai Chi isn't the only art experiencing this phenomenon. Martial Arts have always had its' share of charlatans. Unfortunately there are more today and the worst part is they don't even know they aren't real.