Bone Energy/Go With the Flow/Saber Class – 4/30/18

Bone Energy Internal energy is known as bone energy as opposed to muscle energy. If you want to use internal energy, line up your bones. Keep in mind that between each bone and its neighbor is a joint. For maximum use of body dynamics and internal power, limit bending...

Famous Tai Chi Masters/Tai Chi Saber Class – 4/23/18

Teachers – Famous and not so much Some years ago, I heard there was a fellow moving to Port Townsend who had been a student of many famous Tai Chi Masters and was authorized to teach. I had never heard his name mentioned in the Tai Chi world, but was looking forward...

Good vs Wise / Wold Tai Chi Day – 4/16/18

Good vs Wise There is a saying, “ A good teacher teaches what he (she) has been taught. A wise teacher teaches what he has learned.” I think that many of us in the internal arts have had teachers who have a good grasp of some form or system and can even share this...

Laughing and Crying/World Tai Chi Day – 4/9/18

Laughing and Crying The serious Tai Chi player views life in the terms of yin and yang. He is always seeking to understand how to find balance in life – not too much of this or that. Moderation in all things. Mother nature is the perfect example of this fact. The...

Inner Balance – 4/2/18

Inner Balance I love it when online people contact me with new information, clarifications, or corrections. Back in the late 1980’s, I met a remarkable Tai Chi instructor by the name of Gao Fu. If you don’t know who she is (she passed a few years ago) do a...