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Tai Chi Forms: 1,2,3,4 …

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I’ve just started to relearn another Wu style spear form and have found the count method makes it easier to remember the moves.

It’s a technique I teach beginners during my Tai Chi classes, private lessons and presentations.

All it involves is counting out aloud each movement of a posture. The number of counts depends on how many individual movements there are in the posture you are practicing.

For example one of the spear postures I’m learning has four separate movements. Here’s what I do: [Read more…]

Push Hands Get Together

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I had a very enjoyable time at last Sunday’s Push Hands session held at Fawkner Park, South Yarra.

I managed to drag myself out of bed and do 30 minutes of Chi Kung to loosen up before driving to town which took about an hour. Memo to self – don’t drive down Toorak Road -too busy!

Well, I survived the ‘ordeals’ – finding a parking spot and training.  We had nine turn up, four Tai Chi practitioners and five Wing Chun practitioners.  Training ranged from gentle to vigorous (without the killer moves :). Interesting to experience Chi Sao vs Push Hands.

We trained for two hours with a ten minute break in between. Ten minute rotations between participants.
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Melbourne: Free Push Hands

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Come along to this free Push Hands session. I’ll be there, it should be fun.

Details

  • Sunday May 20th
  • 10.00am-12 noon
  • Fawkner Park – South Yarra (Armadale Road entrance)
  • Friendly, non-competitive push hands (tui shou) practice and play for anyone – old, young, beginners, masters.
  • Team up with someone and discuss what you’d like to do – and what you’d not like to do!
  • Ten minute exchanges timed by a bell – but you can rest as well!
  • Learn, share and enjoy

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Square Tai Chi (2)

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I’m constantly reviewing my training schedule and today I decided to get back into practicing Square Tai Chi in my form’s session.

For those not familiar with the term it’s a stop and start method of practicing Tai Chi, particularly suitable for beginners. Here’s a previous post of mine explaining it in more detail Square Tai Chi vs Round Tai Chi.

Praciticing square Tai Chi before I do the round form has the following benefits: [Read more…]