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pakua

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.... 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.
 

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Welcome Pakua~!

There are some Tai Chi members of MT, they are pretty quiet though, maybe you could spur them into some lively discussions :)

Hope you enjoy the board~!

~Tess
 
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pakua

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Lively discussion? No Tess, we Tai Chi types don't do lively!
 
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A colleague told me he thinks Tai Chi is like a chameleon walking along a stick.
 

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Welcome.
Hope you enjoy it here as much as I do...
 

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Welcome! :)

I used to do a little Tai Chi. Was a good workout. :)
 

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Welcome Pakua! I belong to that over 50 club. I think my knees are past creaking. I take glucoasamine sulfate and MSM, which helps alot. See the Health forum. My kids also became black belts in TKD and I enjoyed having them in class with me when they graduated to the adult class. Enjoy your kids while they are growing up. Martial arts is a good family thing to do. Also enjoy and benefit from what this forum has to offer, I have! TW
 

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