Yang Tai Chi 1st Lesson

I went to Bath Tai Chi to learn a form of Yang from Graham Barlow.

I'd always wanted to learn Tai Chi, mainly for the health benefits but also to learn something that rounds off learning Wing Chun.

My main concern was the effect it would have on my back. After the first evening, I had pains in my left side but when I went home and did my physio exercises, it got better.

In the days before doing my physio exercises, I would have been in agony for the whole week with the chance of a day off sick from work.

This just completely proved to me that I can control my pains. I can stop it. It doesn't own me.

I only learned the first 5 moves of the form and watched the others train the martial applications. I don't think I'll be able to use Tai Chi seriously for a long, long time (and Graham hinted that I need to be patient). But I'm glad to be learning the form.

I'm off to Weston-Super-Mare to visit an assessment that my Wing Chun club is having. Hopefully I can get some training in and survive - especially from the long drive.

I sincerely hope I'll be posting here more.