At what point and under what condition is it appropriate for your practice to change from slow to fast?
There are two standard criteria:
1. The ability to maintain physical and energetic integrity....
When you speed up your actions either in a single posture or the whole form, you are ready only when the the body structure remains composed and intact and qi remains contained and not floating. If you are not able to do this, then it’s not time yet to add speed to your movements. You should slow down immediately and, following the guidelines of the criteria, gradually add speed as you improve.
2. The ability to express the appropriate energies.
Taijiquan is composed of different elements of the so-called “eight methods and five steps” or the “thirteen energies”. Any one of these elements should be expressed during movements. If a movement is done too quickly often the details are skipped over or lost and the intended energy is not expressed. Therefore, if you find it difficult to clearly express all the necessary energies, or competently change from one energy to another during fast practice, then you should continue to practise at a slower pace that allows you to do so.
These are the two criteria for the most appropriate time to incorporate speed into your movements. The power release of Taijiquan is realised by using this accelerated process. As well as its changeability and neutralisation skill. However this does not mean that all the movements of Taijiquan should be changed to fast movements. Instead, within the opening and closing, rotation and folding of Taijiquan, there must be an alternation of fast and slow.
Taijiquan is composed of different elements of the so-called “eight methods and five steps” or the “thirteen energies”. Any one of these elements should be expressed during movements. If a movement is done too quickly often the details are skipped over or lost and the intended energy is not expressed. Therefore, if you find it difficult to clearly express all the necessary energies, or competently change from one energy to another during fast practice, then you should continue to practise at a slower pace that allows you to do so.
These are the two criteria for the most appropriate time to incorporate speed into your movements. The power release of Taijiquan is realised by using this accelerated process. As well as its changeability and neutralisation skill. However this does not mean that all the movements of Taijiquan should be changed to fast movements. Instead, within the opening and closing, rotation and folding of Taijiquan, there must be an alternation of fast and slow.
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