Chris Chi

Tai Chi for health & wellbeing

 

 

There's Always a First Time

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23696808I often share the following story with various groups when Sue and I are running our workshops.

Twenty-two years ago a friend of mine, who was a Tai Chi teacher at the time, tried to convince me to do Tai Chi.

At the time I wasn’t interested because I thought Tai Chi was for elderly people and besides who wants to embarrass themselves by prancing around.

Well, he kept at me ‘try Tai Chi, try Tai Chi’, and after two years of being pestered by him I finally gave in and said, ‘look, if I try it will you stop annoying me?’

He said, ‘yes.’

So I went to my first Tai Chi lesson here in Blackburn, Melbourne, Australia.

It was a church hall and as I entered the hall I noticed 20 other nervous beginners milling about.

My instructor yelled, ‘Big ones at the back and small ones in the front.’

I thought, ‘you beauty, I’m tall. I can hide down the back.’

After that one hour lesson I was hooked for life.

It’s now my passion,  part of our business AQ/KQ and an excellent way of maintaining good health.

I often thought why did it take me so many years to try Tai Chi.

I think the answer lies in what a Tai Chi master once said, ‘you will come to Tai Chi when you are ready.’

Kung Fu Kid

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P1040968I was at the recent annual Wushu and Tai Chi Festival held here in Melbourne Australia.

I have not been at this event for years and I decided to go along and take a few photographs.

They had three designated areas in a large sports hall. One area had Wushu activities, another Tai Chi and the other Kung Fu sparring.

I was seated on the gym floor near the Kung Fu sparring area watching the juniors competition.

During a break in the fighting I caught this young fellow, about 10 years of age, gazing into the distance watching the person in yellow competing in the Tai Chi forms division.

I like this photo because it represents to me a nice Yin Yang moment.

I wonder what the child was thinking of that man in yellow moving in a strange slow motion way?

He certainly seems captivated by the Tai Chi.

Footnote: I have other photographs of the event and will post them later.