Maybe 10 or more years ago we joined a night school class for Tai Chi, we were surprised to find that it was held on Tuesday mornings. However, my husband and I went along. We enjoyed our first lesson, but it was apparent that this was no "quick fix" Our teacher said it was a ten year process, to learn Tai Chi to any degree of competence.
We were told the style of Tai Chi she taught at that time was the Yang long form, as brought to the West by Gerda Geddes, who our teacher had trained with. This form was broken down to Parts 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Our first year was devoted to learning the first part.
We learned some Qui Gong excerises to warm our bodies up. Did some intial training on feet and hand/arm movement, did some relaxation, had a little reading from a Tai Chi Book = 365 = daily readings for a year. Went back over the minute bit of the form we had learnt, and that was the end of the hour.
We went home feeling really baffled, and worried about the next ten years. We had enjoyed it, and intended to finish the term that we had paid for.
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Hi Marge,
I was most interested in your Tai Chi post. I have just written a book about Gerda Geddes who was your teacher's Tai Chi teacher.
You can find out more at www.gerdageddes.com
Frank Woods
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