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This blog was written for our students but anyone is welcome to read it...

Most of the blog content is from Sifu Waller's website.

Mrs Rachel Waller

Mrs Rachel Waller
I am responsible for the blog, video footage and much of the photography used on the website.

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Sifu Waller

Sifu Waller
Sifu Waller has been training martial arts since 1975, kung fu since 1985, tai chi chuan and baguazhang since 1990.

He is registered with the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain as an advanced instructor and holds a post-graduate professional teaching qualification.

Sifu Waller has been teaching since 1995.

Sifu Waller's websites

  • Internal Kung Fu
  • YouTube
  • Blog

Yang Lu-chan

Yang Lu-chan
150 years ago Yang Lu-chan's tai chi chuan was considered to be the pinnacle of kung fu.

It was taught to the Manchu Emperor's elite palace guards.

Blog Archive

  • ▼  2012 (284)
    • ►  March (11)
      • Niwa (pure place)
      • Removing strain Tai chi chuan is concerned with t...
      • Spiritual component
      • Tai chi - 4 week induction courses
      • Why bother learning an internal art?
      • Relax
      • Strain
      • Preconceptions about kung fu
      • Learning
    • ►  February (127)
      • Hakutsuru sake
      • Mutually destructive
      • Habit
      • Letting go of stress
      • Contemplation
      • Sake
      • Appropriateness
      • Letting go of anxiety
      • Paul
      • Choice?
      • Broadsword form
      • Tai chi - 4 week induction course
      • Learning
      • From coarse to refined
      • Learning from mistakes
      • High stance, small circle
      • Incapacitation
      • Finding out for yourself
      • Defensive?
      • Sifu
      • Security & confidence
      • Adapt, change, improvise
      • Awake?
      • Understanding the relationship
      • You
      • Sensitivity
      • Personal trainer?
      • Energy
      • Adding new material
      • Instructor
      • Family?
      • Corrections
      • Suitability
      • Internal
      • Learn from everything
      • Teaching experience
      • Lessons
      • Just do it
      • Adding new material
    • ▼  January (146)
      • Never fight
      • Washed away
      • Tai chi - 4 week induction course
      • 10,000 hours
      • Softness
      • Concentrating for a sustained period of time
      • Depth
      • A good place
      • Application
      • What does your school offer?
      • In the moment
      • Not doing
      • Responsibility
      • Muse
      • Feints
      • Relaxing
      • Business
      • New Year Meal
      • Training for the first time
      • Administration
      • Chinese New Year 2012
      • New Year Meal
      • Getting rest
      • Whole-body movement
      • Etiquette
      • You & the computer
      • Proof
      • Tai chi - 4 week induction course
      • Office life
      • Definition
      • Timeless
      • Chinese New Year
      • The Year of the Dragon
      • Do not neglect material from previous grades
      • Disciplinary measures
      • Tension
      • Balance
      • The Year of the Dragon
      • Chinese New Year
      • How would you introduce your instructor to a frien...
      • How does your partner/wife/husband address the ins...
      • Courtesy
      • Refresh
      • Qigong
      • Sifu
      • Your safety, their safety
      • Refresh
      • Tai chi
      • Pushing
      • Etiquette
      • Feedback
      • Resentment
      • Lazy
      • Hobbies
      • Preparation for the new year
      • Meaningful form
      • Set realistic learning goals
      • Tai chi - 4 week induction course
      • Dithering
      • Form collecting
      • Yang Cheng Fu form
      • Perception
      • Slow fix
      • Students
      • Patient
      • Not fighting
      • Staff play
      • Gratification
      • Drop-in?
      • Relax
      • Precious
      • When can you join?
      • A martial art should already be 'complete'
      • Awareness
      • Improvisation
      • Commitment
      • Go easy on yourself
      • Re-inventing the wheel?
      • Positive attitude
      • No neigong
      • Jeet kune do
      • Common health problems
      • Nervous system
      • Sorrow
      • Learning any skill
      • What are boundaries?
      • Kung Fu TV series starring David Carradine
      • Slow down time
      • Mind & body
      • Instructor
      • Standard practice
      • Rest & relaxation
      • Instructor
      • Who are we looking for?
      • The immediate now
      • Tai chi - 4 week induction course
      • Relaxation
      • Peter Southwood's tips #19 Respect your instructor...
      • Safety
      • Tai chi is good for your health
      • Is baguazhang better than tai chi chuan?
      • Baguazhang application
      • Why rush?
      • Kung fu
      • Childish
      • Tai chi - 4 week induction courses
      • Sifu's wife
      • Thank you
      • Making time
      • Stronger
      • Grades
      • Do I need prior experience?
      • Black belt
      • Vibrant
      • Confusion
      • Sifu's wife
      • Time
      • Alert
      • Thank you
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My Blog List

  • The Rambling Taoists
    The Big Victory That Wasn't - Trey Smith It wasn't that long ago that President Obama announced that the Keystone XL project proposal was DOA. Mainstream environmental groups hailed th...
    1 hour ago
  • The Dragon's Orb
    A lesson - Here is a lesson about art and life from a parkour practitioner. Everything he says is relevant to all arts, and especially budo. This might as well have b...
    10 hours ago
  • Internal Kung Fu
    - It is not enough to simply copy how an animal attacks. Nor is speed the answer. Both body and mind must behave differently. Neigong trains the body to move ...
    11 hours ago
  • Mindful Martial Arts
    Tai Chi for Arthritis – 12 Lessons - 12 Lessons by Dr Lam
    12 hours ago
  • Mokuren Dojo - Aikido and Judo
    Tomiki on initiative in Junokata - Today my martial studies are focussed on exchanges of initiative in Junokata. Although I know of no existing teachings by Tomiki Sensei on Junokata, you ...
    12 hours ago
  • Cloud Hands
    Not Coming, Not Going - "not going, not coming rooted, deep and still not reaching out, not reaching in just resting, at the center a single jewel, the flawless crystal drop in the...
    13 hours ago
  • Sifu and Kitten are Married
    Hands-up, kitten! -
    17 hours ago
  • barrietaichi.com
    Lesson of the Week E-book - Greetings everyone! I have just finished compiling the lessons of the week archive into a PDF E-book and I am offering it free of charge to everyone who vi...
    18 hours ago
  • Dojo Rat
    Cute Hippie Chick of the Month: Ladies First - *
    1 day ago
  • Clear's Tai Chi
    Use this simple push hands mistake to rapidly build skill while winning. - I see this little mistake in push hands players all the time. Even experienced ones. It's easy to fix. It help you win and much more importantly it will sp...
    1 day ago
  • The Soul of Japan
    Gosen: Southeastern Niigata - Sometimes I just don't know where my travels will take me. For me, the soul of Japan will always follow that saké scented trail because I know that do...
    2 days ago
  • Cook Ding's Kitchen ... empty your cup.
    The Learning Process in Japanese Martial Arts - *Over at the Classical Budoka, there is an excellent article on the learning process in Japanese Martial Arts, embodied in the phrase "Shu, Ha, Ri." Below...
    2 days ago
  • MyTaiChiLife
    Electromagnetic Fields and the Earth Connection - Last night on Coast to Coast AM, guests Gregg Braden and Howard Martin talked about the connection between the earth’s magnetic field and us, positing that...
    3 days ago
  • taichi heartwork
    - It's a strange world we live in where goodness is equated with fearfulness.
    4 days ago
  • Chiron
    Orders of Abstraction - It feels like I am living my life one level removed from reality right now. It's not true, just a feeling. The stuff I am dealing with right now-- plane ti...
    1 week ago
  • Ikigai | Blogging the Martial Way
    Does Hick’s Law Apply to the Moon? - When I'm in a bakery, I often stand transfixed by the many rows of donuts. They all look so delicious, I can imagine myself eating most of them. After a fe...
    1 week ago
  • the way of wujimon
    Chen Xiao Xing Workshop 2012 - Chen Xiao Xing Workshop – Chicago May 2012: Silk Reeling Exercises and Xinjia Yilu. Filed under: workshop
    1 week ago
  • Classical Tai Chi Blog
    More methods for training the basic walk of Classical Tai Chi - Video of Classical Tai Chi Walking by Master Stephen Hwa I am very grateful to my teacher for the work he did in making this video. Over the years of pr...
    1 week ago
  • Taijiquan & Neigong Blog (Tai Chi Chuan & Nei Kung)
    Huang Style Taijiquan – Young Master Adam Mizner – Part One - Adam Mizner is a young master of taijiquan that has been a great inspiration to myself & many fans of tai chi. His skills are apparent in the videos belo...
    1 week ago
  • Jianghu :: 2.1
    Go Warrior Oddity - On the topic of shashkas, there was a TV series a few years ago called “Go Warrior”. The host, a young American martial artist called Roland Osborne went a...
    1 week ago
  • William Berry, MS, CAP
    Love and Relationships Presentation - These are the slides (minus some media) from my presentation on February 13th, 2012. The songs listed were played, and there was some minimal discussion o...
    2 weeks ago
  • Ting Jing Tai Chi Blog
    The year of the Dragon - Be careful, things may catch fire – I do hope so!
    5 weeks ago
  • Repulsive Monkey
    2012 Running Plans - It's that time again. Thou Shalt Resolve to Do Better! Not really into the whole annual resolution thing these days, but I have indeed signed up for anothe...
    1 month ago
  • A Girls Guide to Home Life
    Movie Life Magazine {April 1940} - I love movie magazines. There is something about them that I just love. Maybe it is the photos? The trivia? Interviews? I don't know what, but they sure a...
    2 months ago
  • Masters of the IMA
    Zhao Bin and the Yang family - It is not often realised that, of the commonly listed disciples of Yang Chengu, 3 were actually relatives of his, namely Fu Zhongwen, Zhao Bin and Zhang Qi...
    2 months ago
  • Photographs of Kitten
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    2 months ago
  • Striking Thoughts
    All good things… - After almost seven years of blogging, 1,320 posts and 4,381 comments I’ve decided to take a break. This is partly due to burnout and partly due to the nee...
    3 months ago
  • Durham
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    3 months ago
  • Our Path in the Valley
    Moved to Cloud Hands Blog - This blog, Our Paths in the Valley, has been discontinued. Michael P. Garofalo continues to maintain his Cloud Hands Blog.
    6 months ago
  • Martial Development
    Unlocking the Warrior Spirit: Duckling Edition - It’s not the size of the duck in the fight, but the size of the fight in the duck that counts. Original text copyright Martial Development. All rights rese...
    10 months ago
  • John's Tai-Blog @ Camp Tai Chi
    Cleanliness… Next to Tai Chi-liness? - I get Google Alerts for things that relate to tai chi. I just saw a posting on STLToday.com that talks about different forms of meditation. It’s the one ...
    1 year ago
  • Dynamic Balancing Boxing
    Goodbye, Leeds -
    7 years ago

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