The required courses (101, 201 and 301 Classes) are one year program and designed for both who want to learn enough to keep fit and those who want to lay good foundation for advanced learning.
101 Classes: Basics & Yang Style Taiji
Duration: Four Months w/32 Hrs
Learning Objectives: As you complete this learning area, you should understand and be able to do all the following drills
1. Stake Drill
2. Five-Finger Drill (extremities awareness)
3. Body requirement (posture & poise)
4. Footwork (stance & walk)
5. 24-form routine
101-1 Stake Drill (Meditation)
1. Wuji Zhuang: The natural
2. Taiji Zhuang: Ying & Yang
3. San Ti Shi: Three-Body (Heaven, Man and Earth) Posture
101-2 Five Finger Drill
1. Drinking Water
2. Caressing Tree
3. Shooting Target
4. Pulling Silk
5. Holding Ball
101-3 Body requirement (posture & poise)
1. Head & neck
2. Shoulder, elbow and hand
3. Hip, knee and foot
4. Chest and waist
5. Eye
101-4 Footwork (stance & walk)
Walk:
1. Forward
2. Backward
3. Sideway
Stance:
1. San Ti stance
2. Toe stance
3. Heel stance
4. T-Stance
5. Bow stance
6. Side bow stance;
101-5 24-Form Routine
1. Opening
2. Wild Horse parts Mane (3)
3. White Crane Spreads Wings
4. Brush Knee and Push (3)
5. Hold Pipa
6. Repulse Monkey (4)
7. Grasp Bird’s Tail (2)
8. Single Whip
9. Cloud Hand (3)
10. Single Whip
11. High on the horse
12. Right Kick
13. Double Box the Ear
14. Left Kick
15. Single Whip Stands on Left Leg
16. Single Whip Stands on right Leg
17. Fair Lady Shuttle (2)
18. Needle at Sea Bottom
19. Fan to the Back
20. Turn around and punch
21. Step and punch
22. Apparent Closing
23. Cross Hand
24. Close
Note:
24-Form Routine is the core of 101 Course. The reason we have students learn this routine is not only that it is the Chinese national standardized and has become the most popular but also it is has become the common language among the Taiji practitioners. Besides, this routine is of Yang Style and easy to learn for the beginners.
201 Classes: Chen Style Taiji
Duration: Four Months w/32 Hrs
Learning Objectives: As you complete this learning area, you should understand and be able to do the following Chen Style Routines:
1. Four Key Movement Repetition Routine
2. Thirteen-Form Routine
201-1 Four Key Movement Repetition Routine
1. Warrior pounds mortar
2. Lazily tying coat
3. Six sealing and four closing
4. Single Whip
201-2 Thirteen-Form Routine
1. Warrior pounds mortar
2. Lazily tying coat
3. Six sealing and four closing
4. Single Whip
5. Ground Dragon
6. Stand on one leg
7. Three steps backward
8. White Crane spreads wings
9. Oblique walk & Single whip
10. Closing
11. Three steps forward
12. Hidden punch
13. Warrior pounds mortar
Note:
Chen Style Taiiji is the oldest and from which all other styles originate and develop. Chen Style Taiiji focuses more on Dantian and more circling and coiling movements compared to Yang Style Taiji. These two short routines are must-learn for those who want to really understand Taiji.
301 Classes: The Internal & Dan Tian
Duration: Four Months w/32 Hrs
Learning Objectives: As you complete this learning area, you should understand and be able to do the following exercises:
1. Dan Tian Breathing Drill
2. Dan Tian Rotation Drill
3. Dan Tian Utilization Drill
301-1 Dan Tian Breathing Drill
(Dan Tian Reverse Deep Breathing)
Six moves of inhaling and exhaling to complete one cycle.
1. Inhale: breath in normally and raise hands to TanZhong,
2. Exhale; breath our reversely and point thumbs to QiHai (Ocean of Qi)
3. Inhale: middle fingers point to MingMen (open the Life Gate)
4. Exhale: squatting down, relax and adjust breathing
5. Inhale: massage Dantian
6. Exhale: LaoGong and YongQuan meet
301-2 Dan Tian Rotation:
1. Horizontal circulation: Qi-Hai and Ming-Men
2. Vertical circulation: Hui-Yi, Ming-Men, Jia-Ji, Tan-Zhong, and Qi-Hai
3. Diagonal circulation:
301-3 Dan Tian Utilization:
Dan Tian Utilization is achieved by doing Dan Tian 24 Circling Movements or 24 Yin-Yang symbol Circling. The drill is to co-operate internal Dan Tian movement with external arm movements.
Dan Tian 24 Circling Movements:
1. Holding ball left side and open right side
2. Right hand clockwise circling
3. Right hand clockwise plus small circling
4. Right hand counter-clockwise circling
5. Right hand counter-clockwise plus small circling
6. Holding ball right side and open left side
7. Left hand counter-clockwise circling
8. Left hand counter-clockwise circling plus small circling
9. Left hand clockwise circling
10. Left hand clockwise plus small circling
11. Double hands cross circling
12. Figure eight circling
13. Holding ball both sides
14. Double hands clockwise circling
15. Double hands counter-clockwise circling
16. Open right close left
17. Open left close right
18. Left side double hands clockwise circling
19. Left side double hands counter-clockwise circling
20. Right side double hands counter-clockwise circling
21. Right side double hands clockwise circling
22. Front index finger circling
23. Front small finger circling
24. Store Qi in Dan Tian circling
