Problems Stimulate Growth Greetings. This is my 201st Monday Morning Training Tip post. This has encouraged me to dive ever deeper into Tai Chi. It gives me so much satisfaction to share this with all of you. Don’t forget that all the previous 200 are archived...

Hokusai Speaks About Tai Chi – 2/18/19

Hokusai Speaks about (Tai Chi) in your Life Greetings. I have been posting these Training Tips every Monday since the end of 2015. I enjoy doing it, and am inspired to keep it up because of the positive feed-back I receive. I appreciate it.  In this time, I have...

The 216 Yang Form/Snowed Out – 02/11/19

The 216 Form In this day and age of shorter and shorter Tai Chi forms ( as short as 8 moves), I have designed a form of 216 movements. It is my belief and experience that longer forms encourage the player to concentrate and focus to a deeper level. Since most of my...

Lining Up the Body – 2/4/19

Lining up the body Make sure you line up the body so you can push and pull with the legs and trunk of your body, not just the arms. Any angle or bend in the arms and legs results in a loss of energy and effectiveness. It is especially important that the angle of the...

Helping the Instructor Demonstrate – 1/28/19

Helping the Instructor Demonstrate Being chosen as a helping partner to demonstrate an application for a movement in a Tai Chi class is an honor. This means that the instructor trusts you to help him or her explain the dynamics of the move. It is so important that the...

Tai Chi Breathing/New Classes/Weapons Update – 1/21/19

Breathing the Tai Chi Way The average person breathes about 700,000 cubic inches of air each day. In order to this efficiently, many teachers of the internal arts, including me, stress normal abdominal breathing when doing forms. This is breath in and out through the...