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[hesadevil]

Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. Vince Lombardi

The retreat house is a former 19C nunnery and just right for Tai Chi. The lungs are even better today, I didn't cough once throughout the whole of this morning's sessions. Not even when we began practicing the Staff Form in Earnest the grounds.

Comments

[quinara]

It looks great! Glad to hear it's doing good things for your lungs.

(I love the woman with the shopping bag in the last one - she looks like she got a bit lost and is now very confused...)

[curiouswombat]

I was thinking just that! Well, both just thats, really!

[quinara]

I PWN UR BRAIN (and I know that's an odd mix of gamer and lolcat...).

[hesadevil]

I'm having fun and getting back to the stage where the Form is so automatic, I can do it with eyes closed. This can only be good news for the lungs which benefit from daily practice.

[fearsclave]

Wow... I'm jealous. I wish there was somebody teaching good Tai Chi around here. The maxim of the last groups I was with was "vaguely flail around and we'll get it sort of right later".

[hesadevil]

You were jealous three years'ago if I remember correctly. You've been out in the wilds a long time.

The whole Tai-Chi Retreat is full of new things, even for those who've been doing the Form for years. The only problem is that it happens just once a year.

[petzipellepingo]

Very interesting.

[hesadevil]

The stick waving is very much fun,fun,fun. We learned some warm-up twirling that reminded me so much of Spike in FFL.

The whole Tai-Chi Retreat is full of new things, even for those who've been doing the Form for years.

[thedabara_cds]

Wow, that looks like so much fun!!

[hesadevil]

The stick waving is very much fun,fun,fun. We learned some warm-up twirling that reminded me so much of Spike in FFL. The tutor took some video shots of us twirling and told me that I was twirling in the opposite direction to everyone else. No matter what I do, I can't twirl anti-clockwise.

[peasant_]

My first thought was what a bad state their lawn is in - I'm doomed, aren't I.

Anyway, my second thought is that the stick waving looks fun.

My third thought is what are you doing inside taking photos instead of waving a stick?

[hesadevil]

The lawn is a field, full of rabbits and moles with their attendant holes.

The stick waving is very much fun,fun,fun. We learned some warm-up twirling that reminded me so much of Spike in FFL.

I took the photos yeasterday evening, after dinneras I'm not attending the evening sessions.