July 31, 2020
'Tai Chi Office Hours' Event
UPDATE: Hey thanks people I got a lot more response and request to add to the event mailing list than expected. It should be good for anybody but particularly you people who train Tai Chi intensively with other styles, schools, and teachers - you can try out your stuff in a very non-threatening, collegial atmosphere, at $10 for the day, waived in case of need - why, this'd be a bargain even at TWICE THE PRICE :)
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Well well well, we idiots have let some fools lock us up, scare the shit out of us, and beat us into the dirt. Ok fine. After all, science is real, right? Believe the CerVeza science, you filthy subliterate Neanderthal fucking morons! But wait - how can science be real if it's merely a problematic construct rooted in the ontologically toxic colonial/settler/rapist commitment to hegemonic 'truth'-privileging genocidal epistemology of European conquest, hmm? (Translation: science is just another power trip.) Answer me that. Take your time, I'll be here nursing a cold beer.
Meanwhile back in the real world, everybody left, right and center seems to expect there'll be nothing left of the USA but an expanse of charred rubble (at best) or a green glass parking lot (at worst) by this time next year, once Left vs. Right has worked through their Battle Royale.
Yet, spitting in the face of all that, I hereby announce my plan to hold an unusual Tai Chi event next June:
'Tai Chi Office Hours'
Title: 'Tai Chi Office Hours'
Date: Mid to Late June, 2021
Times: Noon-to-Dinner, rock the sun on down.
Location: Ashland, Oregon (in or near)
Contents: Basically if you are into Tai Chi with any teacher or school whatsoever, come on down/in and you can do tuishou and/or kuzushi with me. It's just exploratory work, resembling more like sports massage than cage combat.
Pre-Requisites: Please be at least (somewhat?) sane, decent, rational, and courteous, to the degree possible.
Fee: $10 USD donation at the door (excused for need). Yeah, I'm a crazed grifter of a killer cult leader right? As many seem to think. Well, obviously! A fee like this just proves it! Believe it!
Safety: Well who tf knows? See above - by then we'll be living in Revolution Year Zero as pre-figured by the Khmer Rouge (Angka). We'll all be riddled with AK bullet holes, hollowed out by 劳改 reeducation camp dietary regimens... what good will a flimsy surgical mask be to you then? Nevertheless we will follow all legal guidelines in place at that time - even if we have to do our thing in biohazard suits (BYOBHS, not included in event fee).
Textbook: If you want to do some background reading on my approach to internal energy, by late 2020 my final summation training manual INFUSION will be listed on Amazon.com, look for it. Manga/graphic large format fully illustrated 'best of' advanced internal training methods, most never taught anywhere else, at least not with this laser focus on massive internal amplification.
Contact: Write me as soon as you think you might be just 'interested'. Obviously in these times there's not such thing as 'commitment' (despite the huge $$$ financial killing I'm obviously scraping from this event LOL), but just so I have some idea of the interest level out there, drop me a line of "intent to attend unless the world end" to: taichisingularity (at) (oh you gnow).com
Why the FUCK: The great arts of Tai Chi, Xingyi, and Manti evolved from a tradition that was over 2,000 years in the making. The great past masters suffered through but survived untold numbers of disasters including but not limited to the following (often all at the same time)
- warlords
- famine
- civil war
- slave labor conscription
- epidemics (often several running at once)
- starvation
- plague
- locusts
- floods
- droughts
- foot binding
- economic collapse
- mega-quakes
- dust storms and desertification
- foreign invasion
- death of 1,000 cuts for so much as stealing a 餃子 for your starving kid
- dynastic collapse(s)
- inconceivable poverty that would make you eat your socks if you even had any
If they can create and refine things as cool as Tai Chi and Xingyi and Mantis under those conditions, how can we shirk from doing our little bit to keep the flame lit. So, seriously now, drop me a line if you would even have potentially the slightest interest in such a once-in-a-plaguetime event. I'll put you on the event mailing list. Only those who write me in advance, will get the final location for actual participation as we get closer! The actual location and other details will not be published here.
And hey I don't mean to paint too bleak a picture - you never know, maybe by June 2021 Oregon will have seceded itself into the utopic nation of Ecotopia, all peace love and understanding as memorably depicted here.