If you're into the martial aspect of Tai Chi then you know about push hands, or Tui Shou. If you're new to Tai Chi, push hands is a two-person practice where you try to unbalance the other person before they unbalance you. Now most practitioners
This isn't just something you hear about in Tai Chi, but in Tai Chi circles I've heard it often expressed that the power and secrets of the masters of the past has been lost to time. That the masters of today don't have the
For some reason this concept has been bubbling up in both classes I've attended and online. Maybe that's because it is central to Tai Chi (I can't decide if that's an attempt at a bad joke or just being redundant). Whether or
Recently someone posted on Reddit (the go-to place for serious discussions) asking what makes internal martial arts internal. They seemed to have a hard time with it because no matter how relaxed we get we have to use our muscles; without them there is no movement. But they seemed
I spent the majority of the past weekend in Bellingham for a water form (Liu He Ba Fa) workshop my main teacher put on. It was a great time, though I came away with a mix of emotions and thoughts, way too many of which were along the lines of
Since the beginning of the year, as I've gotten back into Tai Chi at a level of intensity I haven't practiced at in a while, I started going to the local Tai Chi center. Most of the regulars and instructors are pretty focused on "chi&
Writing about Tai Chi, or even thinking about writing about Tai Chi, is tricky. It's not a subject with a large audience, and you can sense a disturbance in the force when you even think about putting pen to paper. You can feel that there are numerous practitioners