About me: at the dawn of the 21st century, I found out about Chen style taijiquan. After several years, I felt a need to learn more about Yang style, even though I hadn’t been too interested in it previously. I make it a point to work on taiji, in some fashion, each and every day. Don’t know just where the quest is leading me, but I plan to follow it wherever it leads! To a better life, I’m hoping.
What else can I tell you? I haven’t had much formal instruction in the martial arts. But I have had some and I’m trying to force myself to get more, even though I’m by nature a loner.
Before I became interested in trying to learn taiji, I already had a strong interest in hard-style martial arts. But since I was infrequent to seek out formal instruction, I tried to incorporate various gongfu modes into my lifestyle.
Obviously I am not big on sparring, since that would have tended to steer me towards teachers and classes more. But hermit kung-fu may yet give way to combat training. As I enter my second half-century of life, the thought of taking up fighting as a hobby makes me smile. We’ll see if the thought becomes reality and if the smile remains.
Meanwhile I feel better and more capable, though the road ain’t always a straight one to put it mildly…
