{"id":85863,"date":"2025-06-15T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T10:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/co-jsem-se-naucil-od-mistra-tai-chi\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T11:35:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T09:35:00","slug":"what-i-learned-from-tai-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/en\/what-i-learned-from-tai-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons Learned from My Tai Chi Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1185.6px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><ul>\n<li><strong>Arthur Asa Berger, January 2001, California, USA<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_6876\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arthur-Asa-Berger.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6876\" class=\"lazyload size-thumbnail wp-image-6876 \" style=\"margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arthur-Asa-Berger-150x150.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arthur-Asa-Berger-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Arthur Asa Berger\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20150%20150%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27150%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arthur-Asa-Berger-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arthur-Asa-Berger-56x56.jpg 56w, https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Arthur-Asa-Berger-150x150.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arthur_Asa_Berger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arthur Asa Berger &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The material that follows, taken from a book I\u2019m writing called\u00a0Teaching as a Performance Art, deals with an experience from a few years ago when I reversed roles and became a student of an ancient Chinese martial art,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/en\/about-tai-chi\/\">Tai Chi<\/a>. What was particularly interesting to me about my learning Tai Chi was the mindset I adopted when I became a student. I could recognize many familiar patterns of behavior that I saw in my students and found troubling, so I gained a certain measure of compassion for them when I became a student and acted the same way.<\/p>\n<p>It is stressful and difficult being a teacher, but it is also stressful being a student. After we\u2019ve been teaching for a while we tend to forget that. We forget that students have their lives to live and often have to struggle hard to support themselves and find time for their studies. We would do well to become a bit more compassionate and understanding when dealing with our students.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-fontsize=\"20\" data-lineheight=\"30px\">It Takes a Long Time to Learn a Short Form: or How I Met Bob, the Tai Chi Master<\/h3>\n<p>A number of years ago I noticed that the adult education service of my local high school in Mill Valley was offering courses in Tai Chi. I decided to give Tai Chi a try. I had been told by a sociologist I knew, who had taught in China, that Tai Chi had helped him and his wife avoid colds and ease respiratory problems, and thought Tai Chi might help me, also. The class met for an hour, twice a week, on Mondays and Wednesdays.<\/p>\n<p>I spent the better part of three years learning \u201ethe short form,\u201c a very complicated set of movements that takes about eight minutes to do. There are something like thirty-five moves in this short form. After nine months I still couldn\u2019t remember all of the moves, though I could do most of the form by memory and follow the teacher, Bob, and his assistants (some of whom have studied with him for fifteen years or more) doing the form.<\/p>\n<p>Although the short form was, without question, difficult for a novice to learn, one interesting thing I noticed about myselfis that when I assumed the role of the student in the class, I almost immediately fell into a state of mild lassitude or lethargy.\u00a0As a teacher, of course, I get upset when students do this, since it prevents them from learning as much as they could if they were more actively involved in the class. And yet, once I assumed the temporary role of student, I was guilty, I must confess, of the same kind of behavior.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-fontsize=\"20\" data-lineheight=\"30px\">New Approaches to Teaching a Very Old Exercise<\/h3>\n<p>What was interesting about the course was that Bob (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/en\/about-us\/robert-amacker-tai-chi\/\">Robert Amacker<\/a>), the Tai Chi \u201emaster,\u201c continually was trying new things, even after twenty years of teaching. Tai Chi is traditionally taught by having the teacher show a move, and asking the students to imitate the move.\u00a0The teacher then goes around, making sure that the students are in the correct position with their feet placed just so, with each arm and hand where it should be, with the waist pointing in the right direction and with the backbone straight. One of Bob\u2019s assistants, Tom, spent fifteen years studying Tai Chi with Bob and still made some mistakes doing the form, which shows that Tai Chi is very difficult to do correctly.<\/p>\n<p>But Bob kept trying new ways of teaching each move. He tried to reduce each movement to its fundamentals and produced charts that show where each foot goes, how the waist is positioned, what the arms are doing, and so on. He did this because he thought that taking something that is very complicated and breaking into smaller and more manageable units, he could teach step by step; he would help his students learn better. Bob did whatever he could to take this incredibly complicated exercise and cut it down to size, so to speak, so his students didn\u2019t feel it was beyond their capacities and would be impossible for them to learn.<\/p>\n<p>He took what might be described as a hyper-mechanistic tack, taking a martial art that is very fluid when it is performed, and breaking it into its most elemental components. I told him that he was doing a L\u00e9vi-Straussian thing. Just as L\u00e9vi-Strauss had broken myths into theirsmallest components, \u201emythemes,\u201c so he could understand how myths communicated to people, Bob was trying to break Tai Chi into its most basic components, what we might call \u201eTai Chi-emes.\u201c\u00a0By teaching his students how to do each segment of a move correctly, Bob hoped to help his students learn the moves and, eventually, the whole form.<\/p>\n<p>There is also something to be said for adopting somewhat of a casual attitude towards Tai Chi (and perhaps any subject). A former student of mine, from twenty years ago, was also in the class. (She was nice enough to say \u201eyou haven\u2019t changed in twenty-five years.\u201c) She became passionate about Tai Chi, took private afternoon classes with Bob and was all wrapped up in it. \u201eThis is very, very important to me,\u201c she said one night. The alarms went off in my head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201eBe careful,\u201c I told her. \u201eYou\u2019ll probably burn out.\u201c And a few months later, burn out she did. At a class meeting she told me she was fed up with Tai Chi, wasn\u2019t satisfied with her progress, and didn\u2019t seem to be getting anywhere. I suggested she drop her afternoon class. It was \u201etoo much of a good thing\u201c and she had, quite naturally, become tired and even mildly depressed about the course. She soon stopped doing any Tai Chi.<\/p>\n<p>Bob was a marvelous teacher. He could parody incorrect movements in an absolutely hilarious way, which enabled hiss tudents to see the mistakes that they (and others) were making. He was also very thorough. He showed how every movement of the form is connected to the martial arts elements of Tai Chi, in which a person uses Tai Chi to fight with another person. Each move in the form is based on a move made when fighting, but Tai Chi is a \u201esoft\u201c martial art, and, as it is traditionally practiced, is actually more a kind of meditation in motion than a way of fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Bob explained everything, then, and enabled his students to see where the moves they were learning came from. He had studied with some of the greatest Tai Chi masters and frequently discussed them and the way they taught Tai Chi. Bob seemed to be a natural teacher, always asking students if they had any questions (and when they did, he offered elaborate answers to make sure they understood everything).\u00a0He was always improvising, always trying something new. He had the instincts of the best teachers who always are looking for a better way of getting their students involved in what is being taught, always looking for a clearer way of explaining things.<\/p>\n<p>I was, in some ways, I should add, a dedicated student. I hardly ever missed a class (although I missed one when I had a graduate seminar over to my house) and I was fascinated by Tai Chi. Despite moments of inattention and lassitude, I actually enjoyed the classes a great deal, until I hurt my knee and had to stop doing Tai Chi.\u00a0Still, as astudent, I seemed to be very happy to shift any burden of responsibility for my learning onto Bob\u2019s shoulders. Sometimes I couldn\u2019t follow his explanations, didn\u2019t understand, exactly, his answers to questions, and even found my mind wandering a bit.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-fontsize=\"20\" data-lineheight=\"30px\">Speculations on Being a Student and on the Magic of Teaching<\/h3>\n<p>This makes me wonder, then, whether there is something about being a student, something about the role of the student, that leads to certain kinds of behavior especially when there are no examinations and there is little riding on one\u2019s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Tai Chi class was, in the most reductionistic sense, a glorified exercise class, so one needn\u2019t expect too much of oneself. Still, it could also be argued that Tai Chi is one of the most difficult things you could possibly try to do it is a set of awesomely complicated movements, and has ties to philosophy and physiology. Learning the form requires the student\u2019s full attention and continual effort.\u00a0At any givenmoment you must try to keep in mind the position of your knees, your feet, your shoulders, your head, your back, your ankles, and what makes things even more difficult is that many of the movements in Tai Chi are very unnatural.<\/p>\n<p>One other thing I\u2019ve noticed, and this gets to the heart ofthe matter, is that despite my casual attitude toward Tai Chi (and I should add that Bob, our teacher, was also extremelyl ow key, himself), somehow, magically, I learned a great deal. During my third year, for example, I discovered that,by some miracle, I actually knew most of the form and could start devoting more attention to doing it correctly.That is what is hopeful about the educational process.<\/p>\n<p>By some kind of magic, despite everything, there is a subtle change that takes place in students and they find that, somehow, learning has taken place. It might seem that youaren\u2019t accomplishing that much each time the class meets, but after a number of months you discover that you havel earned more than you thought you did.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"\" data-fontsize=\"20\" data-lineheight=\"30px\">Bob\u2019s Latest Adventure: The Master in Moscow<\/h3>\n<p>Bob is now living in Russia, where, as one of his former students told me recently, he is held in great repute as a TaiChi master. He also is a drummer and has been quite successful as a musician there, as well. His place teaching Tai Chi in Mill Valley was taken by one of his students who had studied more than twenty years with him.<\/p>\n<p>I had a wonderful three years with Bob learning Tai Chi. I learned the \u201eshort form\u201c from Bob, but I also learned a great deal about teaching from him. So I learned much more than I thought I would from that Tai Chi course; when you study with a master, you always learn more about all kinds of things than you thought you would.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a92001 by Arthur Asa Berger<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>This article was published with the author\u2019s permition.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-tai-chi-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lessons Learned from My Tai Chi Master &#8211; Taijipodlupou.cz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taijipodlupou.cz\/en\/what-i-learned-from-tai-chi\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lessons Learned from My Tai Chi Master &#8211; 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