Building a stable firm body is absolute

When you begin the journey in learning the internal martial arts, keep in mind that “It could take up to 3 years to just build a good body posture.”

Not to mention about having a flexible mind and developing spiritual well-beings, we need to train our body posture and movement to use the correct body system.

This is the utter most basic foundation ground work you must do in order to advance your level.

In the traditional internal martial arts world, we say:
“Be scared the person who has trained only one skill rather than a person who has 100 skills.”

Although you train a lot of skills, if your basic is not good, it is same as building a castle on the sand. It sunk as the foundation collapsed like sand.

Currently, although many are doing martial arts for health,
If you don’t have internal force, it is same as gymnastics or dancing, because it only look good but in practice you could not possibly use if for self defence.

The basic body posture is the most important thing, but many people get bored quickly and wanted to quickly skip it to learn advance steps and skills.

I know many who quitted the dojo when they could not achieve any levels in several months or 1~2 years. These people overlooked the basic fundamental steps. Learning for this short time could only train the bones and muscles. In any types of the martial arts, one or two years training could only develop a basic foundation ground building block in order to get ultimate force in the traditional way.