Chi Lien-cheng says "If you want to master basic kungfu, hard practice is the first requirement." He recalls that 20 years ago when he began studying taiji daoyin, he had to do the basic movements 200 times without a break, and stand on a horizontal wooden bar for half an hour; so in the first day he lost two kilos.
「要練基本功，吃苦是第一要務，」紀連成回憶二十多年前初學太極導引，「垂直升降」一做就是兩百下，站樁一站半個小時，第一天就瘦了 2 公斤。