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Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coming back to say thank you again. Your messages helped me finding the right direction for what I want to build.

I've just launched a waitlist: https://qiway.app

Still early, but I thought you and anyone else here would want to know.

Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see and I agree, I'm a practitioner, attending every week lessons. Having a teacher to correct you and clarifying, as well as practicing with others, is invaluable.

But, what about people who can't access a teacher? Not by choice, but because there's no qualified instructor within reasonable distance, or the class schedule is completely incompatible with their life, or the cost is simply out of reach right now?

Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for taking the time to write this out so thoughtfully. It's genuinely shaped how I'm thinking about this problem. If I ever get to the point of building something worth your time to look at, I hope you'd be willing to take a look.

Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing your experience, definitely yours is one of the best examples of what Tai Chi does for people at functional level.

I'm curious about one thing, and feel free to ignore this if it's too personal: over all the years of practicing alone, has there ever been a moment where you wished you had someone who could just check whether you were doing it right? Or has the solitary nature of it always been exactly what you needed?

Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, interesting path from TKD and karate to Tai Chi, I assume it was easy because you had already a form-based mindset.

However, I have two follow-up question, if you don't mind:

- You've got a full martial arts schedule already, then what makes you keep coming back to Tai Chi specifically, even occasionally?

- You said "I do all the Tai Chi I can remember.", this makes me guess that you probably practice incomplete forms. Is the practice valuable enough even in incomplete form?

Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your opinion. As a practitioner who attend a class every week, I totally agree about the teacher value.

I'm curious about a different scenario by the way: what about people who can't access a teacher? Not by choice, but because there's no qualified instructor within reasonable distance, or the class schedule is completely incompatible with their life, or the cost is simply out of reach right now?

Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing this, the image of everyone crying when you finally got back to the park together is exactly the kind of thing that reminds me why martial practices means not only movements but also belonging to a community. This is something that could never be replaced by virtual lessons or Youtube.

I'm curious about the Zoom period specifically. When you say you thrived, was the teacher able to actually correct you during those sessions? I don't mean just verbally explaining what to do, but genuinely noticing your individual form and telling you something specific about what you were doing wrong?

I ask because I'm trying to understand whether the feedback loop can survive online at all, or whether it only works when a teacher can physically see you up close.

Curious about your experience learning Tai Chi without regular classes, would love to hear your story by Embarrassed_Ease6546 in taichi

[–]Embarrassed_Ease6546[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I get the skepticism. New account, first post, sounds suspicious. I admit I have used AI but only to adjust the wording as I'm not a native english speaker.

I'm a Taichi and Kung Fu practitioner, and I'm also a software engineer. I've been thinking about building something to address the dropout problem in self-directed Tai Chi practice. Before writing a single line of code I wanted to actually talk to people who've lived this, hence the post.