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October 22

Are You Pursuing your Martial Art as a Scholar or a Warrior?
While doing my own studies on the philosophy and systems I practice the author’s theorem that martial skills are our solid skills, while scholarly skills are those we pursue for our own personal enrichment struck me. In the modern world this would mean that the skills that we use to survive today, the pursuit of [...]

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August 28

“There is No Push in Tai Chi”
One of the first things I try to teach my students is that there is no pushing in Tai Chi. If you are thinking wait I learned “Push” and it was a big part of my forms you are running into a translation and transmission pitfall. A more accurate term for this movement is press. [...]

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December 19

The Tao Of Walking 1
Walking seems like the simplest task we can do throughout the day.  Primarily because once we have mastered it, we are always on our feet.  Unless you for some reason lost the ability to walk through injury or illness, you may never even though about how essential a part of life walking is. The problem [...]

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December 08

Health Experts Favoring Tai Chi for Fibromyalgia
This is a good read … I will add some comments shortly. http://www.naturalnews.com/030538_Tai_Chi_fibromyalgia.html

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August 25

Creating a New Wellness Destination for Central Pennsylvania
For those who don’t already know I have been busy this summer, doing something I hope will have positive impact on the health and wellbeing of the area. If you have read any of my blogs you know that I already instruct  for Young’s Tae Kwon Do in Bellefonte. Our Tai Chi Program has been [...]

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May 07

Thanks For the Great World Tai Chi Day…
Just Wanted to Thank everyone that made this years World Tai Chi & QiGong Day  such a big event. With this event  preparing the new offerings for the Penn State’s Strength and Fitness Wellness series, our new and current programs a Young’s Tae Kwon Do in Bellefonte and our new Tai Chi and Yoga school [...]

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April 25

Talking about YouTube – YangFamilyBreathing_Edit.wmv
From World Tai Chi and  Qigong Day 2010 Quote YouTube – YangFamilyBreathing_Edit.wmv 

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January 02

Twitterized Tai Chi 1: Tai Chi Classics Microblog Project Catch Up 1/1/2010
  The Tai Chi Classics in under 125 Characters or less per bite A Catch up for all those who missed a Tweet or aren’t on twitter  to for real time  tweets follow @Tai_Chi_Teacher Find additional content, and sign up for our free email updates at http://www.taichiteacher.org Chapter 1 Drive the Internal Energy to move [...]

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December 17

Achievement through Minimal Effort part 2: Active Sung in Yielding
This is the second Excerpt from the text I Am working on on the principle of Sung (soong) “Using minimal effort”.  Again I want to thank everyone for their previous comments, and wanted to encourage anyone who has comments and constructive criticism to leave a comment here or contact me through email info@taichiteacher.org or my [...]

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October 29

Achievement through Minimal Effort part 1 the Static Principle of Sung in the Internal Martial Arts
IceRocket Tags: Tai Chi,Relaxation,Martial Arts,Sung,Ba Gua,Hsing Yi This entry is a first draft excerpt from the Tai Chi Principles Manual I a currently working on all feedback questions or comments are appreciated  Please contact me through my website www.taichiteacher.org or by email at info@taichiteacher.org. The Principle of Sung One of the most important principles to [...]

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