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Wednesday 29 June 2011

BECOME A TAI CHI MASTER!

In response to an advert in the Tai Chi Union magazine...


BECOME A TAI CHI "MASTER"!

You can learn this fabulous martial art of "tai chi chuan" in just a few decades!
You could even be a teacher!
Being a teacher gets you:
-A lifetime commitment to something most people couldn't give a monkey's about
-A very modest or no income at all
-Quizzical looks from people who wonder why you don't do a "proper job"
-The responsibility of handing on a complex and demanding art, which may need to be called upon in dangerous situations.

BE THE ENVY OF YOUR FRIENDS!

You too will have to put up with:
-Spurious theories about "chi" and far-fetched health claims from people who don't really know what they're talking about.
-People who have been training for a week trying to make money from something you've been doing for a decade or more.

I do apologise, I'm not normally so bitter about things, but sometimes people really take the goddamned biscuit don't they?

2 comments:

  1. Great post, Nick. Thanks for sharing.

    Rachel
    Newcastle Tai Chi
    http://www.newcastletaichi.co.uk
    http://www.neijiaquan.co.uk/

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