Re: Orderly Wednesday
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 3:02 pm
You all are reinforcing my conviction never to take Tai Chi through that instructor again. It was a city run course.
I need to know the why behind things. There was none of that. My comment about perfection came from me reading about Chinese teaching methods. That plus my experience in my class realized what my Chinese born teacher wanted. Looking back, had that been explained, perhaps I would have put a different focus on the class. Instead I kept searching for the promised balance and not finding it. And certainly there were no chairs in place for the many women who did have major balance issues and thus started to refuse to do some of the exercises.
As for being able to focus, there was a mentally challenged member in the class who simply wandered around the room weaving between us as we worked on the stances. So there was little focus since someone as easily distracted as I was constantly trying to mentally calculate where he was in the room and would he be getting in my way as I did a movement. I did enjoy the warm up and cool down exercises and got more out of those than the class itself.
The class was obviously not for me. When we complained about the disruptive student we were told no-one had ever complained before (he was the staple, we were the newcomers.) And made to feel intolerant. Dh walked out one day because he couldn't take it any more.
I need to know the why behind things. There was none of that. My comment about perfection came from me reading about Chinese teaching methods. That plus my experience in my class realized what my Chinese born teacher wanted. Looking back, had that been explained, perhaps I would have put a different focus on the class. Instead I kept searching for the promised balance and not finding it. And certainly there were no chairs in place for the many women who did have major balance issues and thus started to refuse to do some of the exercises.
As for being able to focus, there was a mentally challenged member in the class who simply wandered around the room weaving between us as we worked on the stances. So there was little focus since someone as easily distracted as I was constantly trying to mentally calculate where he was in the room and would he be getting in my way as I did a movement. I did enjoy the warm up and cool down exercises and got more out of those than the class itself.
The class was obviously not for me. When we complained about the disruptive student we were told no-one had ever complained before (he was the staple, we were the newcomers.) And made to feel intolerant. Dh walked out one day because he couldn't take it any more.