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It all depends on several aspects. Are you practicing a martial aspect of the taijiquan Does your teacher/school teach the martial aspect of the taijiquan How much do you practice and what is the main focus of your practice Who you practice with What else do you do to advance your skill This is necessarily not a full list, but the main things should be ...

I retract my answer - I have now viewed the technique, and I don't see ryoto mochi sukui nage (as done in tomiki's koryu dai san no kata section A) anywhere in that technique. I had to look up the Japanese, but ryoto mochi sukui nage is "two handed scooping technique"; my answer is limited to that throw. At around the 9:21 mark of the video referenced in ...

Try reading Doug Wile's 3 tai chi books "Tai chi touchstones", "Lost tai chi classics from the late ch'ing dynasty" and "Tai Chi Ancestors", all available from Amazon. Wile traces the first use of "internal" to (From the Lost Classics book) Huang Tsung-hsi's (1610-95) "Wang Cheng-nang mu-chih ming" (Epitaph for Wang Cheng-nan) and his son Pai-chia's ...