Thursday, May 18, 2006

Tai Chi Format - Manual Week#3

Tai chi week 3

Intention of the classess: [Repeat to the class
] :To achieve measurable results in the area of learning the form, manage your stress, and to have fun (and not to be afraid to make mistakes or to "look bad"). That way you learn better and easier. Its better: Don't be strsssful, be playful.

Test: Ask the students for the 10 basic points for Physical alighment.

Form:
Revise previous classes
New addistion: Left ward off -> Grasp bird's tail (ward off).

Here, with this new movements, you may have to break it up -> do the feet fisrts, and later, do the hands movements.

Philosophy: Assure you that its ok that some of you are finding it difficult to rememeber all these new steps, little twists here, and turns there. Its the beginning, its week #3. You are learning everything new - the Tai chi vocabulary, the movements, the posture requirements, and that's ok it seems difficult and alot to learn. This is not the same rate you will learn as the weeks progress, your learning will be much faster- exponential, because you'd have climbed the learning curve.

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