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…]