有朋自远方来 - 冷先锋师父（深圳） Master Leng XiangFeng from Shenzhen

今晚，我们有幸得到冷先锋师父的到访，获益良多，也让我们的学员有机会看看名师的风范，与他会话。 阔别多年，冷老师这次重回狮城，带队来参加2011新加坡国际武林大会，也见见老朋友。上回他来新时，我有幸随他学习武当太极剑和得到一些陈式老架一路和陈式竞赛套路的提点，还有许多太极的理论。

冷老师给学员一些学习太极的金玉良言

冷老师与同学们合照

冷先锋师父来自深圳，自幼习武，曾专程到太极拳发源地河南省陈家沟拜师学艺，并多次得到王二平亲身指教。 他的太极造诣非常高，在国际大型武术比赛中得奖无数，也是国家一级裁判员。他先后在深圳和香港开了武术馆，可谓桃李满天下，另外他也开设了先锋体育用品店。

看了学员的练习，我们有幸得到他的一些提点，以下我把它简单提一提：
1）学习太极拳需要‘悟“， 盲目的苦练进步不大，反而累坏了身体
2）学习太极拳贵在于精， 不在于多，现代人常犯的错误，就爱学多多套路而忽略了太极的原理
3） 练习太极时，意念非常重要，揽雀尾不能和野马分鬃混淆了，手法必须清楚，意念分明
4）手型，手法：打杨式太极要有杨式掌型，许多女士们常常会不知不觉出现莲花掌
5）脚步要分明，弓步要正确到位，上步要控好重心，不慌不忙
6）眼神：眼随手走
7）身体要中正

This part of Master Leng's golden saying is of utmsot important to beginner:
1) Do not practice taiji blindly, every movement should be done with perception and understanding of the principle, practice by hard  is only exhaustion and do not actually help in improve the skill over the time

2) Less is more - people think that they are smart by learning a lot of forms and neglected the importance of  internalise it with the taiji principles, taiji form without the principles make it no different then other exercise. A set of simple form like 24 simplified taiji is worth repeated exploration/analyzation with different understanding of the principle

3) Practice with precise intention - a few movement in taiji is quite similar to each other, for example grap the bird's tail and wild horse split mane, play the lute and lift hand, although the hands movement look similar but the intention (意）make both movement totally different

4) Always keep the palm in Yang palm shape when doing Yang style taiji

5) Emphasize the weight transfer when moving the footwork, proper and mindfully weight transfer to achieve the flow and continuity, move in calm and without haste

6)Eye contact, more mindful with eye contact to focus on the intention, always look at the moving hand

7)Body alignment - upright, chin in, head lift, to keep the central of gravity right