Tai Chi 3rd term is coming to a close

Last week our tai chi class finished teaching all the moves for Chen style 1st form. There are enough moves and repeated sections that I'm somewhat confused about which section follows which. It would probably help if the course taught the names of the moves, so we can join moves together by their names, not just by rote action.

The names are available on their website, which is pretty decent. I don't know why they didn't translate Jingang as "Guardian" or "Sentinel", but left it with a Cantonese phonetic "King-Kong". What are we, giant apes and gorillas?

They also have a book that I purchased, that shows the moves along with the name, but the pictures don't really do justice to the maneuvers, sometimes its hard to match up the pictures to them.

I probably should practice more as well. I've been bad about it lately, and have been only doing tai chi while in the class.

This weekend there is a review, then a few weeks off. The Chen Refinement class starts in the fall, where we'll start focusing on fa jing, the characteristic bursts of energy associated with Chen style.

Allen.