Tai Chi for health & wellbeing
Another Push Hands session coming up.
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Sunday – March 30
10.00 am – 12 noon
Fawkner Park – South Yarra (Armadale Road entrance), Melbourne, Australia
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.
All welcomed.
Well, it’s been a very busy year and this blog post is larger than usual, as I wrap up the year to fill you in on what’s been happening in my personal training and professional job as a Tai Chi teacher.
Personal Chi
This year I’ve managed to keep consistently to my training schedule of 90 minutes (3×30 minute sessions) during weekdays and 60 minutes on Saturdays.
The 30 minute sessions throughout the day have kept my knees happy, as they no longer play up as they did when I was practicing much longer sessions in the past.
Our last free Push Hands in the Park for the year.
Details
All welcomed.
Unfortunately I won’t be there but here’s the details for the next Push Hands in the Park session.
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All welcomed.
The last two photos of our recent Push Hands in the park session.
One of the areas I experimented in was to try and stay rooted while placing myself in a disadvantaged position. One of the fellows I was pushing hands with pushed my elbow upward which I allowed and he said, ‘your elbow should be down’.
I agreed with him and explained, ‘I’m experimenting’. He looked puzzled.
Usually I try and obey the Tai Chi principles and adopt the correct structure to reduce the chance of being pushed off balance (sometimes it works – sometimes it doesn’t).
But I read a Tai Chi book awhile ago which discussed the point of staying rooted when in a very poor position.
So I figured it was worth testing this theory out because there are going to be times when I’m out of position and I need to remain rooted so I can counter attack.
I’m still working on this theory and I’ll let you know if it works in about fifty years time 😉