Grandmaster Tse’s Tàijí Fist 290 

“Liàn quán wàn biàn shén lǐ zì xiàn 練拳萬遍神理自現 – Practice Tàijíquán ten thousand times, the Spirit and Theory will be shown.” This is 100% correct, but the key thing is that when we practise, our Tàijíquán 太極拳 must be right, in otherwards our Tàijíquán form must be quite good, I would say at least 50% correct. How can we know we are at least 50% correct? This is why we must have a good Sīfú 師父 – Teacher who has higher level skill than us. Whatever we learn, if we want to be good, we need a teacher so that we can learn the proper skill. So, we need a good Sīfú to teach us the proper skill and then we can go and practise ten thousand times and get it right. Only this way can we reach a high level of skill and become a Tàijíquán Master. Even during our daily practise, we still need our teacher to correct us. Today people may have videos to follow, but they will still only maximum pick up about 50% of the skill. If we have someone to correct us, then we will definitely reach a high level of Tàijíquán. When one of our forms is high level, then all our forms will be high level. It is not important if the movements are slightly different, the most important thing is the principle and the result is correct.