Oct. 26th, 2006

hrmm

Oct. 26th, 2006 01:01 pm
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Still working my way through that t'ai chi form on the video, and i'm up to the first set of kicks.  It's quite strange doing them t'ai chi style as a lot of it's opposite to what we do in taekwondo - the support knee straightens instead of staying bent and the breath is inward on the kick rather than out.   What i'm really having trouble with is knowing just where to breathe.  On the video he only mentions breathing in on the kicks, but i can't work out what happens in between.  In other parts of the video where he hasn't mentioned the breathing, i've later worked out it was a no breath (often going back to re-watch it i'll even find he mentions something being on the same breath) but in this sequence i'm sure there has to be some other breathing somewhere as otherwise it's all in-breaths one after another.

I did a google search and found Erle Montaigue's website yesterday, and found another set of videos for the same form in downloadable form, which have already shed some light for me on the bits i've done so far, but it still doesn't say much about the breathing during the kicking sequence.  

Next step is to ask on the t'ai chi community and see if anyone can offer some help there (other than 'get a real teacher instead of a teach-yourself video', that is).

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