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1st to 4th dan (intermediate level)
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9th & 10th dan (advanced level)
3-D
3 kung fu approaches
3 rules
4 ounces
4 types of student
5 animals
5 missing pieces
6 balanced pairs
8 stages of form
12 week challenge
13 methods
16 treasures
36 strategies
90%
100 days challenge
360º


A

Ability
Abstraction
Accuracy
Act now
Active learning
Adjustment
Advanced martial art
Advice
Aggression
Alerting the nervous system
Alignment
Alzheimer's disease
Ambiguity
An ancient art
Ancient stories
The ancient world
Andrew
Anger
Animals
Anticipation
Applications explained
Are you a martial artist?
Are you strong enough?
Art & culture
Asian women
Assertiveness
Assessment
Assignments
Attachment
Attention
Attitude & etiquette
The authentic self
Avinash
Awakening



B


Bags
Balance & centre
The basics
Bear witness
Bearing
The beauty of tai chi
A beginner forever...

Behaviour
Being awkward
Belief
Belts
Beyond logic

Biological organism
Black belt
Black belt (syllabus)
Black T-shirt
Blocks
Blue belt
The Book of Changes

Boot camp
Bowing
Bracing
Brown belt
Build
Bullying



C


Cancelling
Cat
Cat stepping
(handout)
Cat stepping quiz
(handout)
Category search
Central equilibrium
Centre
The challenge
Change
Charity
Cherry blossom
Chin na applications
Chin na basics

Choice
Chris
Chuan
Clarity
Clumsy
Code of Conduct
Coloured belts
Combat
Commitment
Communication etiquette
Concentration
Conflict
Conflictive training
Confusing internal & external training methods
Connection

Consciousness
Constructive rest
Contemplation
Context

Conviction
A copy or a way?
Corrections
Countering (intro)

Creativity
Cross-training in our school
The crouch
Curiosity
Cutting the circle



D


Dan grade
Dance
Darker belts
Data protection policy
Dawn
Dead forms
A deliberate life
Demons
Detachment
Deterioration
Diary
Dietary education
Dress code
Dress code & ego
Dress code for women
Direct transmission
Drilling
DVDs
Dynamic Balancing Boxing?



E


Ease
Easy exercise
Easy tai chi?

Eddie
Ego
Eligibility - tai chi chuan
Embodied Taoism
Emotional authenticity
Emotional awareness
Emotional content
Empathy
The Emperor's New Clothes
Empty the centre
Energy and tai chi
Energy as fuel
Energy (kinetic)
Energy levels
Energy (trapped)
Engage
Equipment
Ergonomics
Esoteric
Evading a knife
Everybody falls
Exaggeration
The exchange
Exercise is boring
Exercise opportunities
Exoticism
Expert

Exponential development
External to internal
Exuberant play




F


FAQs (class members)

Familiarity
Fast-track
Fat loss
Fear
Female feet
Female martial artist
Femaleness

Fight for your belt
Fighting competitions
Fighting on TV
Fighting styles
Fighting talk
Finding balance

Finishing off
Fit for combat
Floor work
Flowing chin na
Fluid
Folding

Following instructions
Footwork
Force
Form is movement
Form pattern

Form pattern: lines of force
Form pattern: square
Form pattern: versions
Form tuition
Form without function
Forgotten how to learn?
Frame
Free the movement

Free will
Freeform combat
Friendship (2)
Frustration
Funky talk
The future



G

Gait
Games
Gaps & deficiencies

Gary
General knowledge

A gentle approach
Getting your own way
Grace

Grades explained
Grading
Green belt
Groundpath
Growing



H


H
ealth comes first
Health routine
Health syllabus
Hearing or listening?
Heightened level of awareness
History
Holds
Home life
Home practice
Home routines
Home training
Home training (members)
Honour
Hope
Hosiery
How?
How to look good in tights
How tai chi is taught in modern times
Humility

Hurry



I


I Ching
I Ching quotes
I know kung fu
Ignorance
Impact
Imperfect

Imperfect health
Incapacitation
Inconvenient
Indoor student
Indoor student conditions
Indoor student expectations
Indoor student of tai chi
Innate
Inner school
Insights
Inspirational quotes
Instructing (kung fu)
Instructing (qigong & tai chi)
Intelligence
Intention
Internal/external
Internal/external ratio
Internal strength
The internal way of moving
Internecine
Introduction
Investment
Invisibility



J


Jedi Knight
John Lash quotes
The journey
Just do it
Jutsu & do



K


Keeping warm

Key points
Know the basics
Knowledge
Knowledge base
Knowledge & wisdom
Krishnamurti
Krishnamurti's descriptions
Kung fu fitness
Kung fu suit
The kung fu warm-up



L


A lady of tai chi
Latent movements
Laziness
Lazy

Learned helplessness
Learner driver
Learning an internal martial art
Learning skills
Learning tai chi
Leaving the school
Leg stretches (set 1) (handout)
Leg stretches (set 2) (handout)
Lesson format
Lessons
Lessons with Sifu Waller
Life... it made sense at the time
Life coach
A life less ordinary
Lineage student of tai chi
Links
Listening
Living

A living art
Longevity patch
Looking after yourself
The lost art?
Lost places
Luck

M

Macho
Magic
Making mistakes
Making space

Manners
Marc
Maria
Martial arts fitness
Martial concepts
Martial concepts theory test (handout)
Martial eligibility
Martial expectations
Martial perspective
Martial principles
Martial routine
Martial sets
Masterless
Mastery
Maths
Meaning
Means and ends
Meet us halfway

Melee
Mental representation
Metacognition
A method
Mind power
Minimalist
Mirror
Mirroring
Misconduct
Monkey paws
More than exercise
Moving qigong (handout)
Multiple opponents
Mushin
Mystery
Myths & magic




N

The nail
Natural order
Natural power
Neigong caution
Nerve

Neuroplasticity
Neutral state

Neutralise
New
New forms
Newton's laws
Nimble
Not a beginner?
Not in the mood
Not knowing
Notices



O


Obstacles
The old ways
Open hand striking
Open your mind
Opinion
Orange belt
Ordeal
Organising yourself
Our syllabus
Over-analysing...
Over-confidence



P


Pacing yourself
Pale belts
Panacea
Panic
Paper tiger
Paradigm shift
Partner work (handout)
Partner work mistakes
Passing grades when older
Passive aggressive
Patience
Paul
Peng
Perception
Pete
The physical
Playing the attacker
Poise
Politics
Power
Power generation
Power management
Powers & principles
Practical Taoism
Practical yielding
Practice
Presence
Prices
Procrastination
Pronouncing your own name
Pronunciation
Psoas exercises (handout)
Purple belt



Q


Qigong practice
Questions
Quick fix
A quiet life 
(fist/combat/martial art)



R


Rachel
Rachel's Amazon wishlist (we get asked)
Range & reach
Reacting
Reading
Real human
Reality
Reasonable force
Recommended reading
Red belt
Redundancy
Refinement
Refunds
Regular pace
Relative positioning
Respect
Responsibilities
Responsibility
Retire
The road less travelled
The role of qigong in the internal martial arts
The role of qigong in a tai chi class
Running
Rustic



S


San sau
School members
School spirit
The Science of the Essence
The Science of the Essence in popular culture
Scientist
Secrets
Security
Seeing & looking
The seeker
Self
Self-assessment
Self-control
Self defence challenge
Self defence tips
Sensitivity
Shape
Shen
Shido-geiko (learning-by-helping)
Shuai jiao applications
Shuai jiao skills
Sifu
Sifu's Amazon wishlist (we get asked)
Sifu's kung fu class
Silence
Silk arms
Similarities & differences
Simplicity
Simplistic
Sincerity
Skill level
Skills
Skin care
Small circle
Social events
Social Secretary
Soft option
Solutions
Something for nothing
Southwood's training tips
Speculation
Spiritual
Spontaneity
Sport
Stance
Standing in your own way
Steal my art
Stealth
Stern
Stick drills (handout)
Stick power
Sticky
Stillness
Strategic stepping
Straw dogs
Structure
Struggling
Sung



T


Tai chi as a supplement
Tai chi as a tonic
Tai chi charlatans
Tai chi chuan membership
Tai chi chuan syllabus (complete)
Tai chi chuan syllabus in perspective

Tai chi combat
Tai chi fighting method
Tai chi fist
Tai chi is not sport
Tai chi & piano lessons
Tai chi without forms?
Tailored learning
Take the space
Tao Te Ching/
Taoist
Te
Tea
Tea Club
Teacher training course
Teaching tai chi
Technical skills
Terms of membership
Therapy?
Time
Tony
Toys
Trainee teachers
The training environment
Tradition
Tranquillity
Travelling
Truth
TV
Tzu-jan



U


Understanding
Understanding fighting
Understanding form
Understanding muscles
Understanding qigong
Understanding softness
Understanding the training
Understanding weapons
Unite upper & lower
Unlearn
Unnatural naturalness
Unpredictability
Using the mind instead of force



V


Value
Vegetarian
Verbal understanding
The Vinegar Tasters
Violence
Visiting the instructor's home
Vulgarity
Vulnerability



W


Wabi sabi
Warm-up
Warrior/sage
Watching video clips
The way
The Way and Its Power
The way of the animal
The way of the warrior
Weak
Weapons eligibility
Weapons night
Wedding & marriage
Why learn tai chi?
White belt
Whole-body?
Whole-hearted
Why bother reading?
Wisdom
Women in martial arts
Wonder
Work in progress
Working with the instructor
Workshops
Words
Wu wei



Y


Yellow belt
Yielding
Yielding basic skills
Yielding basic skills (handout)
You make it happen



Z


Zen koan
Zen mind
Zen & tai chi
Zero sugar diet


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