pakua
09-22-2004, 07:02 AM
.... so "Hello"!
I've been in MT for a while but never said Hi in Meet-n-Greet.
I'm in Johannesburg, South Africa, and have been doing Tai Chi for 2-3 months now. I train under Sifu Eddie Jardine, who is also known as Sensei because he teaches Yushinkai Kobujutsu too.
I'm a beginner, but my 2 kids have trained with him for some time. My 11 year old son is on his Purple Belt; his sister (8) is Orange. I see in some threads that some styles and clubs seem to fly through the grades. Not the case here- it's taken my son 5 years to get to purple, and Sensei has a policy of not grading to 1st Dan under 16 years of age.
So far I'm loving Tai Chi- at these early stages I'm still at the "Oops! Wrong way!" level, but I'm getting the hang of it! At nearly 50 I'm not quite as supple as I used to be. When Sifu says "Listen to your body" I'm not sure if he means that literally- some moves really get the class members' knees talking.
This is a great site! I love to browse in the forums to do with things I've never heard of and know zip about, just for the heck of it.
I've been in MT for a while but never said Hi in Meet-n-Greet.
I'm in Johannesburg, South Africa, and have been doing Tai Chi for 2-3 months now. I train under Sifu Eddie Jardine, who is also known as Sensei because he teaches Yushinkai Kobujutsu too.
I'm a beginner, but my 2 kids have trained with him for some time. My 11 year old son is on his Purple Belt; his sister (8) is Orange. I see in some threads that some styles and clubs seem to fly through the grades. Not the case here- it's taken my son 5 years to get to purple, and Sensei has a policy of not grading to 1st Dan under 16 years of age.
So far I'm loving Tai Chi- at these early stages I'm still at the "Oops! Wrong way!" level, but I'm getting the hang of it! At nearly 50 I'm not quite as supple as I used to be. When Sifu says "Listen to your body" I'm not sure if he means that literally- some moves really get the class members' knees talking.
This is a great site! I love to browse in the forums to do with things I've never heard of and know zip about, just for the heck of it.