Tai Ji, Ba Gua, Xing Yi … not to see the physical movements, but the internal quality and achievements. This can only be seen by those who have the experience and it makes up 7/10 of the Art. What can be seen by outsiders is only 3/10 of the Art.
Many are teaching Tai Ji as physical movement: benefit, yes,
but very limited and shallow. This cannot maintain the interest long. It
produces half-boiled members after they leave the class with a short period of
study. It is usually very harmful to this Art if they are taught by the quick, immediately
done, commercial instruction because it is not the Chinese Internal Martial Art
at all to my knowing.
In the Internal Martial Arts movements start from the roots
not the ends. “Form” to the internal school is moving very slowly, when they
seem static they are given names as forms. “Movement” to the internal school
has direction but with very little visual sign. The internal is almost unseen,
it is moving such as blood and qi. It is flowing all the time, but one cannot
see it unless one has the gong-fu: knowing how to see and where to see.
