January 4, Sifu Steve writes:
The Snake qigong and Tai Chi forms are now complete and ready for our New Year event in February. The Tai Chi form consists of 7 compound movements; the qigong of around 20, which gives a pretty reasonable idea of the actual number of individual movements in the Tai Chi. So, continuing my project, I am now deeply engaged in developing a Dragon form.
Initially, it was intended to be brief as well; however I realized that this stage of the project affords me the opportunity to explore the development of a longer form with the technical problems of energetic development which that involves. Randall Templeton has given me some great input about this, and while his concepts differ somewhat from my own his insights have been very valuable.
One issue is that there are various kinds of Chinese Dragon. While the blue-green Dragon has in common with the Snake a watery coiling aspect, it also shoots forth like lightning or lightning, or like a river bursting its banks. The golden Dragon has a different character, representing the centre, the concept of hierarchy and order, and also a balanced powerful shaking kind of movement reminiscent of the waves of power emanating out from an earthquake.
To this point I have the first 10 movements of the dragon Tai Chi form. They are drawn from the old Yang family middle-frame, and from the Chen family new and old frame, particularly the old-frame "Cannon Fist".
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