Monday, December 29, 2014

Tai Chi Notes #1

Source: long you tube video.


  • Keep head and eyes up. 
    • Don't look down, it changes your balance
  • Keep knee perpendicular to ankle, not leaned forward to foot line, or even further.
  • Be mindful of shoulders and keep loose and downward
  • Shoulders and waist move as a unit
  • Knees and toes point in the same direction
Okay, that's already 5 things to be looking for.  My teaching style for others is to teach only a few things and then give feedback on them.  It is only with the fundamentals pushed down the level of automatic that more complex things can be looked at.  

So these are the first criteria of what to look at for my first moves.