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Howdy all,
I hope everybody celebrating the holiday is enjoying it how they'd rather, and that everybody else is enjoying it, anyway.
I practice tiger-crane gongfu and Sifu says I'm rigid, which I can feel. I decided for myself to find some flowing form I can meditate with, which I imagine is helping me a lot, already. I don't have a coach for taichi, so I figured that I could start with a short form. That way, if I do it poorly, I'll have fewer opportunities to make mistakes. I found Shoreline Taichi's Steelyard 27, which is Yang style in tradition but not in arrangement. I really appreciate the philosophy on their website, motivating its composition. Here's their 'official' recording.
I'm learning it sinistral, and I have a little Confucian diatribe to explain why. The upshot is that I get to mirror it for my wife, so she can learn it with me and we help each other. She's more tagging along, and doesn't want notes as much as I do.
Some of the motions seem awkward to me, and I intentionally finessed some movement a little differently, using tips from what seems to be the definitive @yangfamilytaichi channel on YouTube.
I'm attaching a video of us giving it a morning run-through. It's pretty clear that the incline affected my performance. Please, point out all the issues you have time to tell me about. I'm very open to suggestions for drills and such.
Much obliged 🖖
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