Front page is up…ugh

So today I put up the front page that supports the school. As I said earlier, the blog will now be in support of the school so my focus is shifting and evolving. I hope everyone can understand.

As you can see, the front page is hardly optimal. It still looks like a blog entry cause I’m using my blog to run it. My new super-powered theme can look amazingly professional and that’s why I bought it in the first place. But making it jump through hoops takes a heck of a lot of time. So I’m putting up something I’m not happy with until I can learn to put up something better.

I want a smoother more professional look and this ain’t it, but we have to start somewhere. So expect constant and hopefully rapid transformation of the front page.

Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks.

Back up….sort of

Please be patient with the blog. We crashed last night and I decided it was time to update the blog software. As you can see, we’re having a technical difficulties.

My pictures aren’t coming up and I think it might have something to do with the permalinks but it seems okay. Not sure what’s wrong with that. Can anyone offer advice?

My theme is also a bit faulty right now (obviously) and I had to delete all my plugins to get the blog up and running. the automatic plugin updater isn’t working. It won’t recognize my username and p-word.

If anyone can help with any of these problems, please let me know. My eyes are about to fall out of my head because I’ve been staring at the screen so hard for so long.

Thanks for your patience and hopefully we’ll be up to full-speed soon!

Please use my Amazon links

I would like to ask readers to please use my Amazon links to the left when purchasing any items from Amazon. It’s a great way to support Formosa Neijia and it’s doesn’t cost you anything more than the price of what you were going to buy anyway. Remember, you don’t have to buy my featured products if you don’t want them. Just click through those links to anything else Amazon sells and I’ll get a small percentage of the purchase.

I realize that times are tough economically but I really appreciate your support. My stats show that no purchases were made for the months of October and November. Please help keep the quality of posts on the blog high through your support.

Thank you!

Confusing form for function

There’s some great discussion going on in the thread below the post a statement from the Yang family. What is troublesome is that the statement is all about who has “the true form” and how oh so terribly important that supposedly is. The function has simply been replaced by the form.

This happens too much in taiji. Who cares who has the most authentic form? Is this an antiques show or what?

Authentic forms are great because of what they do FOR you. They change your body and allow you to begin grasping the taiji principles. All authentic forms are to be valued and heavily trained. But skill at the form is a far cry from the function of the taijiquan. You could have the best form on earth and still suck at the function. It’s the function of the art that counts. Not a form.

The measure of correct training is what that training produces. If a form and related training produces someone that can function, THEN the form should be seen as authentic and worth doing. If the form and related training produces no one that can function, then that training is worthless.

So when people produce statements CLAIMING how great they are rather just SHOWING people how good they are, then we know something vital has been lost.

The proof is in the pudding, right?

Taking a break

I’m feeling the need to step back for a week or so. Please enjoy the archives in the meantime and don’t forget to get off the computer and spend time with your families.