Hmm, a little bit of a disappointment… Well, quite a big one, if I’m honest! I wrote about how I attended a weekend bagua workshop a couple of months ago; it was with Alex Kozma, who’s been studying bagua for about twenty years, I think. I really got a lot out of it, and even that short couple of days really gave me a lot of insight into the theory and practice of baguazhang. He was planning to come back and run some more training sessions, in Cheng style, and perhaps Yinfu as well. It would have been particularly good for me, because he would be teaching in English, hence able to cover the gaps I’m encountering with Ge Lao Shi due to my bad Mandarin.
Unfortunately… I just heard from Alex; due to unforeseen circumstances, he won’t be able to make it to Singapore for a least the next few months. Drat. I was looking forward to training in bagua with him and Ge Chun Yan in parallel… Oh well, it wasn’t meant to be. Maybe next year, then…
So… bagua study for the medium term will be solely in the Cheng style as taught by Ge Chun Yan, unless another bagua teacher turns up – which is unlikely. I might start taking some taiji lessons again, but the clash with my Mandarin classes mean I can’t go back to the small-class sessions that Rennie Chong runs (and which I really enjoyed and found beneficial). I’m not going to go back to non-Chinese IMA; I tried that, and found that the cultural clash and differences in mindset were too broad (zenmindsword had a very good post about that, which I was meaning to comment on…) .
But… a candidate for my budgeted time and money presents itself: acting classes…. Dunno, I’ll need to check it out, but it could be interesting…
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