Here's my likely event list for this years Taiji Legacy tournament. I'll probably end up cutting some of the events with the !'s.
( Forms )

I've been noticing, with some help from my buddy Rant, that you can get significant gains in power by segmenting the body when you move it, letting the top coil and then the hips follow ( Read more... )

So, we learned the end of Chen Taiji Cannon Fist. I'm not comfortable with it yet... I don't know if I remember the closing move correctly... But it feels good to finally be done ( Read more... )

A survey of Xingyi training manuals.

http://ejmas.com/jalt/jaltart_kennedy_1001.htm

It mentions the "8 sets of 3":
3 presses, 3 hooks, 3 rounds, 3 quicks, 3 embraces, 3 sinkings, 3 curves, and 3 stretches

( Here they all are, plus a whole lot more )

Sorry I haven't been posting, but I've been really busy. Between MS Project Server 2007 (which I volunteered to admin); researching how to print, market, distribute, and FUND a card game; and learning 3 new forms in Kung Fu, I've been swamped ( Read more... )

So... I guess I owe everyone an update.

Bagua ( Read more... )

Friday -- I dunno? Did something happen on Friday? I invented a new kind of stretch and tried it three times, but that's about it.

( Saturday )

Jia had me teach the beginners Chen Taiji the other day. Sure, it was only about 3-4 moves, but it was still important -- it shows that he thinks I know those moves good enough to teach them ( Read more... )

A ( martial arts update. )

Tuesday Jia and the rest of us reviewed some of the details we learned from the seminar, and I learned a valuable lesson.

( More things that we learned )