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I haven't written about tai chi in quite some time. Probably because it doesn't really interest people, but I like it, so I'm gonna write about it.
I dropped weapons class in the end of March and went back to the Chen class at Ninth Street Dance. I want to get my yellow sash this year, so I figured reacquainting myself with the principles of Chen style and combining them with what I learned in weapons class would be good.
I also started going to Nina's Tuesday night class in Efland, since I quit COUP, and Tuesday nights are free now. That only goes a few more weeks until it hiates for summer.
There's a push hands seminar at Lao Ma's the 21st, and I'm attending that. It's only $40 for almost 4 hours. It's down in Pittsboro, about 40 minutes from my house. It should be interesting, fun, and hopefully give me some further insight into my form.
I should really spend time on writing up the forms I know as notes: stance, direction, application(s), transitions. I did that with the san shou the last time I took that (2 years ago), and, if pressed, I could probably recreate it from my notes.
I'm an intuitive learner (not in the MBTI sense, though). I either understand something, or I don't, and I don't think further about it. I learn the postures and forms, and I do them. I can incorporate things like whole body movement and focus on that, but I don't generally go into, OK, this is a strike to the torso, this is a dodge. Sometimes it's kind of obvious.
I just take everything and put it in my head, and it sorts it out. I don't know how it works. If I'm going to get the yellow sash, I'm going to need to be able to explicate things. I think you can see the problem here.
I dropped weapons class in the end of March and went back to the Chen class at Ninth Street Dance. I want to get my yellow sash this year, so I figured reacquainting myself with the principles of Chen style and combining them with what I learned in weapons class would be good.
I also started going to Nina's Tuesday night class in Efland, since I quit COUP, and Tuesday nights are free now. That only goes a few more weeks until it hiates for summer.
There's a push hands seminar at Lao Ma's the 21st, and I'm attending that. It's only $40 for almost 4 hours. It's down in Pittsboro, about 40 minutes from my house. It should be interesting, fun, and hopefully give me some further insight into my form.
I should really spend time on writing up the forms I know as notes: stance, direction, application(s), transitions. I did that with the san shou the last time I took that (2 years ago), and, if pressed, I could probably recreate it from my notes.
I'm an intuitive learner (not in the MBTI sense, though). I either understand something, or I don't, and I don't think further about it. I learn the postures and forms, and I do them. I can incorporate things like whole body movement and focus on that, but I don't generally go into, OK, this is a strike to the torso, this is a dodge. Sometimes it's kind of obvious.
I just take everything and put it in my head, and it sorts it out. I don't know how it works. If I'm going to get the yellow sash, I'm going to need to be able to explicate things. I think you can see the problem here.
