For students
The Practice Room
This is where the class carries on between classes. What we work on in Jávea is here, in the order we learn it, so you can go over it slowly at home. Start at the beginning, learn a form, or pick what your body needs today.
Three ways in
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The Curriculum
Tai Chi starts where it always has: learning to stand well and walk well. Everything else is built on that. If you're not sure where to begin, begin here.
Start the curriculum2
Forms
The sequences we learn in class, one movement at a time, in the order we learn them. For going over this week's movement as many times as you need.
Choose a form3
Train by focus
Some days you know what your body needs. Balance. Your kua. Letting go of a shoulder. Pick it and you get the lessons that train it, wherever they sit in the curriculum.
Choose a focusForms
Each form is taught movement by movement, in the order we learn it in class. The sequence is the easy part. What we're after is how each movement is done.
Bafa Wubu
The eight methods and five steps, the root of everything else. Two overviews, then the pairs, walking. 6 lessons.
Open Bafa WubuThe 8 Form
The whole form from the opening to the closing, one movement at a time. 7 lessons.
Open The 8 FormComing next: the loosening exercises, the 37, the sword and the fan.
Train by focus
Every lesson is tagged with what it trains. Pick what you want to work on and you'll get the lessons that do it, from the fundamentals and the forms. The lists are short on purpose. These are the ones I'd send you to.
Body foundations
Internal skills
Health & wellbeing
A few of these are empty for now. They'll fill as I film.