Four Steps to Connection

See below from John Kells' blog. I really like this.

REACH OUT YOUR SENSES SYMPATHETIC TOUCH

OPEN TO THE KNOWLEDGE THAT FEELING GIVES

RESPECT THE PEACE OF STILLNESS AT THE POINT OF CHANGE

UNDERSTAND THE WISDOM OF CONNECTIONS CORE HEART SPIRIT-SOUL

The Taiji Manual of Cai Yizhong

Love this on Paul Brennan's translation site. Interesting to note the upright back.

This site has great translations of old texts relating to Tai Chi and other Chinese martial arts.

https://brennantranslation.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/the-taiji-manual-of-cai-yizhong/

John Kells-1990 Power Pressing

Here is a clip of John Kells demonstrating and explaining Pressing.

We used to practise this quite a lot. On Fridays we had a Ta Lu class followed by Power.

The pressing postures, front and back foot, were held in a static mode to begin with. This was to develop the posture and was then followed by learning to uproot. The power came from the spine and root, not  from the arms.

Cook Ding's Kitchen: Book Review: Wisdom of the Taiji Masters

See below for a post about Nigel Sutton's latest book. I had the pleasure of learning a Cane form from him which originated in the Nanjing Military Academy in the 1930s.



I think it was around 1989/90 in Hayes. Sadly I no longer remember the form but still practise some of the exercises. I have a few of his books and have always found them interesting.



Cook Ding's Kitchen: Book Review: Wisdom of the Taiji Masters: The publisher, Tambuli Media , was kind enough to send me a copy of Wisdom of the Taiji Masters by Nigel Sutton. In the history of Taiji...

Look Reasonable

When practising Tai Chi, we should look reasonable, as if someone could come up to and start a conversation.

Oh well,here goes....