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Indeed. You’ve probably heard that all of taijiquan is to be found in the bear. I remember one particular day when I had an aha! moment with the bear. I had already been practicing it for several years, but had not made a particular connection. It was an epiphany, and I only wanted to keep doing the bear for the rest of the hour.

Congratulations on continuing your practice! Happy exploration!

May 31, 2026, 17:24 0 boosts 1 favorites

This time for me it was not about the Bear. it was about the Deer this time. I found that “aha!” moment in moving weight from back leg to front, and then in Monkey and in Tiger of animal frolics, and finally – in Deer.

My discovery was that as soon as I start to hurry, instead of living practice with attention it deserves, I end up the “front” leg being heavy even before I “moved onto it”.

And then these moments come, when I recognized things from deep dive videos about how important to place heel first of empty leg before going forward, and that gentle transition when you place heel first and connecting all three points of “foot tripod” as you move weight to the leg which was empty before, without losing connection of back leg… This is important part of the flow, when weight leak from one leg to another like water from full jug to an empty one.

Speaking of Bear, now I recall a thought, that I probably told to you once that Bear has all 5 principles described by Ben Lo (that video is great, I even do form multiple times often just to put proper attention on these principles, one at a time).