Membership

4 types of student
Boot camp
Cancelling
Data protection policy
FAQs (class members)
Fit for combat
Introduction
Lessons
Kung fu suit
Prices
Qigong & tai chi membership
Refunds
Responsibilities
School members
School spirit
Shido-geiko (learning-by-helping)
Sifu
Social events
Social Secretary
Tai chi chuan membership
Tea Club
Terms of membership
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Etiquette

Attitude & etiquette
Bowing
Code of Conduct
Communication etiquette
Dress code
Dress code & ego
Dress code for women
Leaving the school
Misconduct
Pronunciation
Visiting the instructor's home
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Tai chi chuan students

Andrew
Avinash
Chris
Dawn
Eddie
Gary
Marc
Maria
Paul
Pete
Rachel
Tony
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Tai chi chuan (13 areas of study)

3-D
3 kung fu approaches
3 rules
4 ounces
5 animals
5 missing pieces
6 balanced pairs
8 stages of form
13 methods
36 strategies
100 days challenge
360º
Adjustment
Advanced martial art
Alerting the nervous system
Alignment
An ancient art
Anticipation
Applications explained
Are you a martial artist?
Are you strong enough?
Balance & centre
Bearing
Behaviour
Being awkward
Belts
Blocks
Bracing
Cat
Central equilibrium
Centre
Chin na applications
Chin na basics
Chuan
Clumsy
Conflictive training
Confusing internal & external training methods
Connection
Countering (intro)
The crouch
Cutting the circle
Dead forms
Direct transmission
Drilling
Emotional content
Equipment
Evading a knife
Everybody falls
Fighting competitions
Fighting on TV
Fighting styles
Fighting talk
Finishing off
Floor work
Flowing chin na
Fluid
Folding
Footwork
Force
Form is movement
Form pattern
Form pattern: lines of force
Form pattern: square
Form pattern: versions
Form tuition
Form without function
Frame
Free the movement
Freeform combat
Games
Gaps & deficiencies
Groundpath
Hidden strength
Holds
Home practice
Home routines
Home training (members)
How?
I know kung fu
Impact
Incapacitation
Innate
Intention
Internal/external ratio
Internal strength
The internal way of moving
Internecine
Invisibility
The journey
Jutsu & do
Kung fu fitness
The kung fu warm-up
A Lady of Tai chi
Latent movements
Learning an internal martial art
Lessons with Sifu Waller
Listening
A living art
The lost art?
Martial arts fitness
Martial concepts
Martial expectations
Martial perspective
Martial principles
Martial sets
Melee
Mind power
Minimalist
Mirroring
Monkey
Monkey paws
Multiple opponents
Mushin
Neigong caution
Nerve
Neutral state
Neutralise
Newton's laws
Nimble
Open hand striking
Our syllabus
Panic
Paper tiger
Paradigm shift
Partner work mistakes
Peng
Playing the attacker
Power
Power generation
Power management
Powers & principles
Practical Taoism
Practical yielding
Range & reach
Reasonable force
Redundancy
Regular pace
Relative positioning
San sau
Self defence challenge
Self defence tips
Sensitivity
Shape
Shen
Shuai jiao applications
Shuai jiao skills
Sifu's kung fu class
Silk arms
Skill level
Skills
Small circle
Soft option
Spontaneity
Stance
Stealth
Stick power
Sticky
Strategic stepping
Strong mental attitude
Structure
Sung
Tai chi is not sport
Tai chi as a supplement
Tai chi combat
Tai chi fighting method
Tai chi fist
Tai chi & piano lessons
Tai chi without forms?
Take the space
Tradition
Travelling
Understanding fighting
Understanding softness
Understanding weapons
Unite upper & lower
Unnatural naturalness
Unpredictability
Using the mind instead of force
Violence
Warm-up
Warrior/sage
The way of the animal
The way of the warrior
Weapons night
Whole-body?
Why learn tai chi?
Working with the instructor
Workshops
Wu wei
Yielding
Yielding basic skills
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Tai chi chuan grades

Know the basics
White belt
Yellow belt
Orange belt
Green belt
Blue belt
Purple belt
Brown belt
Black belt (syllabus)
Red belt
1st to 4th dan (intermediate level)
5th to 8th dan (experienced level)
9th & 10th dan (advanced level)
1%
Assessment
Assignments
Black belt
Coloured belts
Darker belts
Expert
Fast-track
Fight for your belt
Grades explained
Mastery
Not a beginner?
Pale belts
Passing grades when older
Tai chi chuan syllabus (complete)
Tai chi chuan syllabus in perspective
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Eligibility

Black T-shirt
Eligibility - tai chi chuan
Health comes first
The physical
Weapons eligibility
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Inner teachings

16 treasures
The Book of Changes
Finding balance
I Ching
Indoor student
Indoor student conditions
Indoor student expectations
Indoor student of tai chi
Inner school
Lineage student of tai chi
Longevity patch
Magic
Metacognition
Mirror
Mystery
Myths & magic
The old ways
Secrets
The seeker
Steal my art
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Meditation

Attachment
Attention
The authentic self
Awakening
Bear witness
Belief
Change
Clarity
Concentration
Consciousness
Constructive rest
Contemplation
A deliberate life
Detachment
Embodied Taoism
Emotional authenticity
Emotional awareness
Hearing or listening?
Heightened level of awareness
I Ching quotes
Imperfect
Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti's descriptions
Lost places
Luck
Mushin
Natural order
Perception
Presence
A quiet life
Reality
Rustic
The Science of the Essence
The Science of the Essence in popular culture
Silence
Spiritual
Stillness
Straw dogs
Taoist
Te
Tranquillity
Truth
Tzu-jan
The Vinegar Tasters
Wabi sabi
The way
The Way and Its Power
Wisdom
Words
Zen koan
Zen mind
Zen & tai chi
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Attitude

Act now
Aggression
Anger
Animals
Assertiveness
Bullying
Charity
Cherry blossom
Commitment
Conflict
Conviction
Curiosity
Demons
Ego
Fear
Fighting talk
Following instructions
Free will
Friendship (2)
Frustration
Funky talk
The future
Getting your own way
Home life
Honour
Hope
Humility
Hurry
Ignorance
Investment
Jedi Knight
Just do it
A Lady of Tai chi
Laziness
Lazy
Learned helplessness
Life... it made sense at the time
Life coach
A life less ordinary
Living
Macho
Making space
Manners
Meet us halfway
The nail
Not in the mood
Opinion
Organising yourself
Over-analysing...
Over-confidence
Passive aggressive
Politics
Procrastination
Pronouncing your own name
Quick fix
Reacting
Real human
Respect
Responsibility
Retire
The road less travelled
Security
Seeing & looking
Self
Self-control
Self-help
Self-reliance
Simplistic
Sincerity
Solutions
Something for nothing
Speculation
Standing in your own way
Stern
Struggling
Tai chi charlatans
Tailored learning
Therapy?
Time
Toys
TV
Value
Vegetarian
Vulgarity
Vulnerability
Weak
Wedding & marriage
Whole-hearted
Work in progress
You make it happen
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Learning

12 week challenge
90%
Ability
Abstraction
Accuracy
Active learning
Advice
Amateurs
Ambiguity
Ancient stories
The ancient world
Art & culture
The basics
A beginner forever...
Beyond logic|
The Book of Changes
Build
The challenge
Choice
Context
A copy or a way?
Corrections
Creativity
Deterioration
DVDs
Esoteric
The exchange
Exoticism
Familiarity
Forgotten how to learn?
General knowledge
Grading
Growing
History
How tai chi is taught in modern times
I Ching quotes
Inconvenient
Insights
Inspirational quotes
Instructing (kung fu)
Instructing (qigong & tai chi)
Intelligence
Internal/external
John Lash quotes
Key points
Knowledge
Knowledge base
Knowledge & wisdom
Learner driver
Learning skills
Learning tai chi
Lesson format
Looking after yourself
Making mistakes
Martial routine
Maths
Meaning
Means and ends
Mental representation
A method
Neuroplasticity
New
New forms
Not knowing
Obstacles
Open your mind
Ordeal
Pacing yourself
Patience
Practice
Questions
Reading
Recommended reading
Refinement
The role of qigong in the internal martial arts
The role of qigong in a tai chi class
Scientist
Self-assessment
Self-differentiating
Similarities & differences
Simplicity
Southwood's training tips
Teacher training course
Teaching levels
Teaching tai chi
Trainee teachers
The training environment
Understanding
Understanding form
Understanding qigong
Unlearn
Verbal understanding
Watching video clips
Wonder
Why bother reading?
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Tai chi

Alzheimer's disease
Bags
The beauty of tai chi
Dietary education
Ease
Easy exercise
Easy tai chi?
Ergonomics
Exercise is boring
Exercise opportunities
Fat loss
Gait
A gentle approach
Grace
Health routine
Health syllabus
Home training
Imperfect health
Keeping warm
Lower body strength
More than exercise
Natural power
Panacea
Poise
Qigong practice
Skin care
Strong or tense?
Tea
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Fitness

Cross-training in our school
Fitness syllabus
How to look good in tights
Running
Sport
Tai chi as a tonic
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Female interest

Asian women
Dress code for women
Female feet
Female martial artist
Femaleness
Hosiery
How to look good in tights
A Lady of Tai chi
Skin care
Women in martial arts
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Your teachers

Lessons with Sifu Waller
Dan grade
Masterless
Rachel's Amazon wishlist (we get asked)
Sifu's Amazon wishlist (we get asked)
Southwood's training tips
Visiting the instructor's home
Working with the instructor
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