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November 2006 Q&A by Master Chu
November 2006 Table of Contents:
The November Newletter is split into four parts, as follows:
Part One: Learning Tai Chi
- Can I learn Tai Chi from books
or
videos? - Page 2
Part Two: Yang Style Tai Chi:
- Are some styles of Tai Chi better
than others? - Page 5
- Slow and Fast Tai Chi Practice for
Fighting Application - Page 2
- Is Yang the most popular style
because it is the easiest to learn? - Page 2
Part Three: Various Aspects of Tai
Chi Study:
- How can I see if a teacher or
school incorporates the primary
elements that make for “correct” Tai
Chi? - Page 3
- Are there good Tai Chi teachers
who don’t teach fighting? - Page 3
- You mentioned that we develop
our “subconscious awareness”.
What do you mean by this? - Page 4
- If the ideal training regimen is
meditation first, then Nei Kung and
then Tai Chi, why aren’t the classes
at the Tai Chi Chuan Center taught in
that order? - Page 5
Part Four: Questions from Subscribers:
- On Tai Chi Practice:
While it seems very important to
practice the form smoothly, at a
constant pace without interruptions,
is there also value in stopping at the
end of a movement and checking/
correcting your alignment and
holding? Or is that the exclusively
the domain of standing practice like
Nei Kung? - Page 6
- On Horse Stance:
What should “lasting forever”
feel like? - Page 7
- On Horse Stance:
If you are in correct alignment,
should your legs be feeling relaxed
or is it normal to experience some
degree of muscle strain? - Page 7
Photos in this issue:
1) Brush Knee and Twist Step (at Eastern U.S. Kung Fu
Federation, Chinatown, NYC, 1983) ,2)
Leaning Forward and Rounding in the Horse Stance, 3) Dong Hu Ling,
4) Yang Chen Fu, 5) Dong Yie Jieh,
6) Wu Jian Quan, 7) Shift & Twist Demonstration, 8) Lean back
like the tall grass, 9) Prepare to strike, 10) Lean forward & attack
with Brush Knee and Twist Step, 11) Lean forward & attack: Detail
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