Summer 2018

[GeneChing]

The SUMMER 2018 Table of Contents is available online.

[PalmStriker]

Going to have to chase down a copy to check out the Mantis Palms article. heh, heh.

[GeneChing]

The digital edition of the SUMMER 2018 issue of Kung Fu Tai Chi is available via Zinio.

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The digital edition of the SUMMER 2018 issue of Kung Fu Tai Chi is available via Zinio.

Thanks for this. Will have a look at it.

[avengingeagle]

The SUMMER 2018 Table of Contents is available online.

When should Subscribers expect this issue in the mail?

[GeneChing]

When should Subscribers expect this issue in the mail?

Unfortunately the USPS has gotten really slow with bulk mailings and this particular issue went out a little later because of TCEKFMCX. But I've already heard from some subscribers who have received issues. If you're an international, that might be a little longer. International mailing has become really erratic.

Thanks so much for subscribing avengingeagle! We really appreciate your support.

As for the rest of you, please subscribe!

[GeneChing]

The SUMMER 2018 Cover Story: Chen Taiji's Eyebrow Level Staff: Master Chen Ziqiang Paving the Way to Success by Emilio Alpanseque is available online.

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Weapons in Tai Chi
Summer 2018

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[PalmStriker]

Wow ! Such a high degree of Mastery ! The BauguaZhang-like fluid motion is beautiful to watch as Master Liang moves about at a Chen Tai Chi pace throughout the set. Inspirational !

[GeneChing]

Wow ! Such a high degree of Mastery ! The BauguaZhang-like fluid motion is beautiful to watch as Master Liang moves about at a Chen Tai Chi pace throughout the set. Inspirational !

Glad you enjoyed that PalmStriker. Master Liang is local and I always enjoy working with him. He's very humble.

He also demo-ed at our 25th last year. Unfortunately there was a spelling error with his name in this video that we didn't catch until much later, and by that time the vid had so many views we didn't want to take it down to fix it.

[GeneChing]

I moved the date from the title of the Chen Taijiquan Seminar w/Chen,Ziqiang post to the body of the text. It's a bit of thread necromancy that I hope tajiboxer won't mind.

Also copied this to the Summer 2018 thread because he was our recent cover master for that issue.

Tai chi attracts increasing number of fans in US
Xinhua | Updated: 2018-10-26 15:32


Doreen Hynd demonstrates tai chi in New York, the United States, on April 19, 2018. [Photo/Xinhua]

"I have been practicing tai chi for 30 years. It always works on internal harmony and balance, and external harmony in getting along with people and the society," said Richard Griffith, an instructor for cement masons, who lives in Arcadia, California.

Practicing tai chi has brought Griffith not only health and longevity, but also romance.

Griffith met his girlfriend in China when they both traveled halfway across the globe to Chenjiagou in Henan province, the birthplace of a very popular form of tai chi, to study the martial art.

"We found common interests, and tai chi brought us together," said Griffith, breaking into a smile.

Griffith drove several hours from Arcadia to downtown Las Vegas to join a week-long tai chi workshop, instructed by master Chen Ziqiang.

Double broadswords, push hands, Laojia Yi Lu and Tai Chi Ball -- Griffith practiced different movements with dozens of practitioners under Chen's guidance.

Deeply rooted in Chinese meditation, medicine and martial arts, tai chi combines mental concentration with slow, controlled movements to focus the mind, challenge the body, and improve life energy thought to sustain health and pacify the mind.

Las Vegas is the second stop of Chen's six-city tour to teach tai chi to Americans. The trip also includes Washington D.C., Phoenix, San Diego, Chicago and Seattle.

Having practiced tai chi for 41 years, Chen combines his martial talents with self-motivated physical training and theory. Chen is head coach at the Chenjiagou Tai Chi Academy in China's Henan province.

In recent years, he has traveled to Europe in spring and summer, and the United States in fall, to teach tai chi and spread that part of Chinese culture.

"An increasing number of American people are becoming interested in practicing tai chi. In the past, a majority of the practitioners were elderly people. Now more and more young people are participating," Chen said.

Found in many community centers, health clubs and studios in the United States, tai chi has a favorable reputation thanks to its gentleness and accessibility.

"Tai chi demonstrates how inextricably interwoven the mental and physical body is," Chen said. "Your mood, your emotional states, and your physical states are all beginning to improve at the same time."

Andy Oliver, a hotel project manager, said practicing tai chi helps to counteract the repetitiveness of jobs and daily routines, where our bodies move only in limited ways.

Tai chi also serves as a bridge to learn more about the Chinese culture, Oliver said.

"Tai chi is moving meditation, which helped me find flow and balance in movement and daily life. One of the most significant benefits is stress reduction," said Grace Bearis, a software development manager who had traveled to Las Vegas from San Diego.

Griffith, who instructs 500 students in his apprenticeship program in southern California, invites his students to warm up for one hour using tai chi every morning on work days.

"We are fascinated by the art of tai chi, and we are also enthusiastic about the Chinese culture," Griffith said.