'Engraved on the heart' is such a beautiful notion and deeply touching especially to hear it coming directly from Wang Xiangzhai. Thank you, as always!!!

Practise through experience is embodied in the word praxis which I discovered recently. I think it is Greek in origin. I love it . Basically learning from doing not theorising. In the words of the great god of training footwear “ Just do it “

I think that the desire for hierarchical leadership from a master is widespread. In addition to Yiquan, I train Thai boxing and you can clearly see the differences in sparring depending on which trainer is leading the training. Students imitate the teacher's behavior. It's just my experience that very few Yiquan teachers even want to fight, but they advertise their Yiquan as a martial art, even though for them it's more about meditation and physical training. Which in my opinion is not reprehensible, but it does a disservice to Yiquan as a martial art because it creates misconceptions about a fight.