In traditions past, tai chi was handed down by Master to student over decades of rigorous study and the “secrets” or key principles were often not taught or held back until the Master was close to passing to protect the family secrets. There are schools in existence today where you train everyday for a year before the Master will even speak to you but those schools are becoming fewer and fewer.
In today’s school’s, tradition still exists to varying degrees, the western student sets goals and wants clear knowledge on how to achieve them. If one school or Master Instructor won’t teach you what you want to know then you can go to another or even go to the internet and learn from tai chi online classes via downloadable videos to get what you want.
Online training is great for those who have a certain level of discipline and want to move at their own pace. You can also repeat the same lesson over and over again until you get it. You can move on to the next set of exercises or forms when you get bored or need some variety or another point of view.
Today’s tai chi is not your mother or your grandmother’s tai chi. It has evolved to new dimensions that Master’s of the art would have cringed at even ten years ago but the information age is here and people want to know who, what, where, when, why and how about everything. Welcome to the new and modern world of tai chi online.
