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Qualifying
Students have passed all 7 coloured belts. They must attend 20 workshops/boot camps/private
lessons per calendar year in addition to weekly tuition in class.
Uniform
Students wear:
Black
changshan or wrap-over
School
badge sewn onto the left upper chest and the
neijiaquan patch on the right
sleeve
Black
cotton martial arts/karate trousers
Flat footwear; preferably not
training/sports shoes
Sash
Martial
responsibility
The student's responsibility is to
practice
the art
frequently enough for the
muscle memory to remember what to do.
This takes time and
patience.
Without a
strong foundation a taijiquan
student is not going to get very far.
Hip kwa
Once the hip bend is familiar, work on relaxing the kwa on the
vertical plane during taijiquan practice. This will increase your connection to the
ground.
We get good at what we do
If you want to get
good at form,
practice form. If you want to become
proficient with weapons,
then practice with weapons. The more
often your body undertakes the
practice, the more familiar it will be.
It is absurd to think you are going to get anywhere by
giving only an hour a week to your practice or that you can regularly skip
classes. Martial arts is not like a bridge club, where you drop in when you
have nothing better to do. Martial arts will always make greater demands on
your time than would most hobbies or avocations.
(Dave Lowry)
Black (1st dan)
Sabre form (regular & mirrored)
2-person cane drill (regular & mirrored)
3-tier wallbag
5 bows
5 bows exercise
5 elements
6 balanced pairs
60/40 stance
Anti-sparring
Being hit
Biomechanics
(qigong)
Breath meditation
Chops
Combat stance
Countering punches, kicks & grapples
Countering/pushing peng
Cultivating peng
Da lu
Double pushing hands
Dying ground
Everybody falls
Fa li
Floor work
- control
- expedience
Form applications (section 1)
Gravity striking
Keeping the pressure on when attacking
Long Yang form (lines
of force version)
Loose striking
The power/function of 'li'
Pushing peng exercise
Pushing peng (partnered)
Pushing peng (striking)
Qigong revision
Ready/guard stance
Silk arms (peng)
San sau (peng)
Speed striking
Sustaining peng throughout your counter
Sword drills
Tactics used by other arts
Using 3-D to gain optimal power
Challenge - 2-person cane drill (regular & mirrored) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - da lu (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - double pushing hands (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - floor work endurance (10 mins)
Challenge - lines of force form (regular & mirrored) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - sabre form (regular & mirrored) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - section 1 form applications (120 mins x 24 weeks)
Challenge - silk arms (peng) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - san sau (peng) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - sword drills (30 mins x 4 weeks)
Assignment #1 - The Sword Polisher's Record
Assignment #2 - There Are No Secrets
Assignment #3 - The Essence of Tai Chi Chuan - The Literary Tradition
Assignment #4 - The Art of War
Assignment #5 - The Book of Five Rings
Black (2nd dan)
Walking stick form (regular & mirrored)
4 ounces exercise
5 animals
5 centres
5 elements stepping
8 powers striking
13 postures
Crude fa jing
Cultivating sung
Elbow
Finishing-off
Floor work
- chin na
- dying ground
Folding
Form applications (section 2)
Freeform triangle
Groundpath
Holding down the pillow
Kicking
Meditation on body sensations
Meditation on emotions
Moving with kwa
Neigong (1-10)
Neigong (extras)
Newtons Laws of Motion
Punching from the centre
Pushing hands development
Reverse breathing
San sau (variations)
Silk arms (variations)
Small stick drills
Small stick flexibility drills
Spiral body
Yin
Challenge - san sau (variations) (30 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - section 2 form applications (120 mins x 24 weeks)
Challenge - silk arms (variations) (30 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - small stick drills (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - walking stick form (regular &
mirrored) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Assignment #1 - The Way of Chuang Tzu
Assignment
#2 - Moving Zen
Assignment #3 - The New Lao Tzu
Assignment #4 - Zen in the Art of Archery
Assignment #5 - 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
Black (3rd dan)
Jian form (regular & mirrored)
Biomechanics (chin
na)
Biomechanics (drills)
Biomechanics (form)
Biomechanics (shuai jiao)
Countering a knife
Escapes/knife
Floor work
- multiple opponents
- tactics
Form applications (section 3)
Improvised weaponry/knife
Jing
Long & short jing
Long Yang form (round version)
Melee:
yielding/shuai jiao
yielding/chin na
yielding/countering
Neigong (11-20)
Obvious power (ming
jing)
San da stage 1: freeform application
San sau (jing)
Silk arms (jing)
Yielding/chin na
Yielding/countering
Yielding/knife
Yielding/shuai jiao
Challenge - 10 minute freeform application
endurance challenge
Challenge - improvised weaponry (5 minutes)
Challenge - jian form (regular & mirrored) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - round form (regular & mirrored) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - san sau (jing) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - section 3 form applications (120 mins x 24 weeks)
Challenge - sections 1, 2 & 3 form applications (120 mins x 48 weeks)
Challenge - silk arms (jing) (60 mins x 4 weeks)
Challenge - yielding/chin na endurance (10 mins)
Challenge - yielding/countering endurance (10 mins)
Challenge - yielding/shuai jiao endurance (10 mins)
Assignment #1-
36 Strategies
Assignment #2- Commentaries on Living volume 2
Assignment #3 - Peak
Assignment #4
-
Tao of Being
Assignment #5
- The Little Zen Companion
Reading is not
optional
To complete each level, students must answer
assignments to prove that they have taken
the time to read this website and all of the required texts.
Failure to read the books will
impede progress and hinder
understanding.
Further reading
Home routines
Fit for combat?
Are you a martial artist?
Page created
2 March 1995
Last updated
21
May 2015
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