Little Mountain Tai Chi Club

I just wanted to thank everyone who came out and attended the workshop yesterday. It was a great turnout with 20 participants attending. Everyone worked hard with all the push hands exercises we did. There is a vast amount of work with the push hands curriculum, which builds upon what we have been training with the Yang long form in classes. We started the workshop with doing half of the Yang style long form to warm up.

Because there is so much to learn, it takes time, and dedication to learn and train the method. In today’s Push Hands Workshop, we introduced and worked on the basic concepts and training methods for the single and double hand fixed step push hands. At the end of the class I demonstrated 3-step push hands with Michel. I talked about how the basic elements of the single hand training are requirements for the double hand and the 3-step push hands, and how they all come back to the same way we move the body when doing the long form. This training is essential before moving on to free style push hands with a partner.

After the workshop, there were 9 of us that went out for a wonderful meal at a local Chinese restaurant. Again, thank you to all the participants who came out and made it a great workshop!

I will be teaching a new Tai Chi class on Mondays from 12:30pm - 2:00pm. If you are interested in this class, please contact the Q. Zen Clinic at 604-559-9905 for the course start date.

Video of Master Mak Ying Po demonstrating the traditional Yang style Tai Chi long form, which he learned from the famous Tung Ying Chieh. The video was filmed in 1982, the year before I started learning Tai Chi at Master Mak's school.

Master Mak Ying Po Traditional Yang Tai Chi Ch'uan Form 1982 This is a video of Mak Ying Po, a disciple of Tung Ying Chieh, performing the Traditional Yang Style Tai Chi Ch'uan Form. This video was provided courtesy of...

We had a great 2-hour Tai Chi practice this morning followed by Dim Sum.

A nice demonstration of Tai Chi push hands. No trying to force each other. Sticking, following, leading, and waiting for for the opportunity to appear to take advantage of.

Masters Yun and Gao pushhands This is "Masters Yun and Gao pushhands" by Hua Yue Tai Chi Institute · Cph on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

The lineage of our Tai Chi comes from D**g Yingjie (Tung Ying Chieh). Some very good points to follow to improve your Tai Chi practice!

While in Montreal this last week, I had the opportunity to visit Grace Chui and her students at the Tai Chi Club for one of her classes. In the attached photo, to my left is Grace Chui and her assistant instructor Jérémie.

To my right is Monique, who first started learning Tai Chi with us in 2019 I believe. She was visiting from Montreal, and I suggested she continue with Grace Chui and her group when she got back home. Monique has joined us a few times when she comes to Vancouver to visit her friend, who is also one of my students. We hope to see her this coming spring!

A Tai Chi student's notes on a recent seminar in Copenhagen taught by Tung Chen Wei, son of Tung Kai Ying as well as being the great-grandson of Tung Ying Cheih. This aligns very well with what I was taught in the school of Mak Ying Po, who was a long-time student and disciple of Tung Ying Chieh.

Raise Your Spirit ☯ Tai Chi Wayfarer This year we started our summer tour from Copenhagen the last weekend of May. This was the very first time master was teaching there. The class rooms were a little limited, so there were only a little more than thirty students, but the energy was surprisingly young and yang. Because of the first tim...

We had a visitor from the east coast of the U.S. to our class on Wed night. We did a couple of long forms, saber forms and some Push Hands. I have known Matt for a few years online, and we met when he visited Vancouver in 2019, where we practiced Tai Chi together as well out at Glen Park.

Went to bed last night with no snow in Vancouver, this morning everything was white! I still went out for a Sunday morning Tai Chi practice. Lucky to have a covered area overlooking the park!

Went to Repulse Bay in Hong Kong this morning. My wife started her 17K training run from there, and I stayed to practice some Tai Chi! She ran to Kennedy Town where myself, our daughter, and son-in-law met her, then we all went for well deserved Dim Sum