Invest in Loss

Sifu Adam Mizner, founder of HME, reflects on the late Prof. Cheng Man Ching’s famous expression “Invest in Loss”.

Some excerpts from the article:

When we are training pushing hands or any partner exercise we focus exclusively on the causes of the skill rather than on the result

Every time we reinforce this habit to win at the cost of the integrity of the art, abandoning the principles and methods of the art just to win a little game or exercise we reinforce these bad habits. Our training takes us further away from Taijiquan day by day and we end up not achieving our training goals.

Read more about it here: https://discovertaiji.com/en/blog/cheng-man-chings