Not at the moment, but if you really want one, I can take one... But, to be honest, this thread isn't about carpentry. It was meant as a look at how the different parts of Taiji training fit together to create the martial art. btw - what is your addiction with videos?
My opinion.....metaphors should be simple or else chaos ensues, like here!! Trying to get principles across is one of the hardest things to teach...my current metaphor..for 'sung'.... Be like water.
OK, does anyone else make taijiquan furniture, or is BT alone in his little world (complete with his nailed table!)
I dont beleive there was a yin yang table in fight club. Show me video SHOW ME VIDEO. And if there was a yin yang table in fight club it was probably being compliant and we will all have seen better ,more realistic, tables in the UFC...anyway, you dont even use a table. Or am I pulling this analogy out too far?
Hey Bailu Taijiquan! I like what you wrote Maybe we can do a picture of that and hang in a room so we can remember and get inspired
To push the analogy a little further then. Once the table has been built how do we know it can be used or is any good? Does it look nice? What is it for? Can it take load? Will it last? If the answer is no to all three then you have a useless collection of wood. Same goes for MAs. Does it look nice? (do you enjoy it?) What is it for? (what do you want from your training?) Can it take load? (does it work martially?) Will it last? (can you keep going further into it or do you reach the end too soon?)
I like the analogy, but maybe a table is not the best? after all VR's last idea got me thinking, once you build a "table" can you actually keep developing it? I mean by changing "contours" "Colors" Etc?
Hi Taoquan, it is your 'table' so you can do what you like with it! I will be interested to hear what you do with it (if anything) or what your metaphor is.
Can you use it to crush your enemies, take dominon of their properties, and so hear the lamentation of their womenfolk... That's what I look out for, when choosing a martial arts class!
I went to Ikea and bought a table. Looks great, dirt cheap but underneath its all chipboard :Alien: If I spill my coffee on it, it will turn to mush. :love: Maybe a crappy looking table made from real wood would have been better ? My mother bought table mats made from cloth, now she moans when I spill my food. Aesthetics before function. Now I eat my dinner out of a plastic tray :woo:
"I went to Ikea and bought a table." Went to McDojo and took up a MA "Looks great, dirt cheap but underneath its all chipboard. If I spill my coffee on it, it will turn to mush." The MA has fatastic looking moves, but they're useless in a confrontation "Maybe a crappy looking table made from real wood would have been better ?" Should have taken a MA that uses function more that form. "My mother bought table mats made from cloth, now she moans when I spill my food. Aesthetics before function. Now I eat my dinner out of a plastic tray." After taking said crappy table MA and getting mashed, I now cannot feed myself properly so have to use a tray to avoid mess, may need a pelican bib as well! hee! hee!
