Tai Chi...

[fajrdrako]

I joined the Taoist Tai Chi Society of Ottawa today, and had my first lesson.

It was very cool.

Our teacher is about twenty, a student named Jessica. There are about eight in the class, a variety of ages and types - though only one man. The class took an hour, and was pretty intense. Good, though. And not quite as difficult as I feared.

I'm doing it with Beulah, so I have an ally. We came back to my place and visited maaseru and Yolande, and I showed them some music vids from Vividcom, especially ones from fandoms we know and love - Doctor Who (the one I linked to earlier today), Torchwood, and, particularly, Slings and Arrows, which maaseru, Beulah and I love, but which Yolande has never seen.

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[janne-d.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I put that a little confusingly.

My Dad does Taoist, and that is the only other style I've seen much of apart from Chen.

I was speculating that Yang would be closer to Chen because the guy that developed Yang style originally trained in Chen style.

I've met the man doing the sword form - he's one of the grandmasters of Chen style (and a member of the Chen family). Though I learned for 2 terms from another grandmaster, Kong Jie Gou, and he was absolutely lovely, spoke virtually no English except numbers, worked us to death and laughed at how bad we were a lot. That was fun.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That sounds wonderful!