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Qingdao Tai Chi

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It’s taken me over 25 years but I finally achieved my goal of practising Tai Chi in China.

Sue and I just came back from a business trip to Qingdao where we ran a three day workshop on Appreciative Inquiry for an international school. Part of the workshop included my Tai Chi energisers and I was pleased with the reaction as everybody seemed to listen closely, practice the skills and haved a good time.

It was a short stay, 5 days, and I was super busy day and night but managed to practice my stance work in the hotel room while there.

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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…]

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…]