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I am sure a lot of poeple know practising Tai Chi is good for health. However, they do not know Tai Chi is also a good fighting skill. which not many Tai Chi practitioners here in the UK can master.

I have met several people who said they have practised Tai Chi for more than five years but they have never practised pushing hands. This is amazing!!! It is either students are very lazy so they have not achieve the level of skill practising pushing hands or teachers they themselves did not train the fighting side of Tai Chi so they cannot train their students.

The original Tai Chi form has 108 moves and they are beautiful moves but I do not understand why do people shorten it from 108 moves to 72 and even to 24 moves. Please remember the 108 moves have been practising by people in China and countries in Asia nearly thousand year. It must have its value and beauty. It is a shame some people particularly in the west practising the short forms. They have missed the beauty and glory of Tai Chi.

Sleeping

Real tai chi is the long form, but in our traditions style we do have short forms. One of the main reasons our teacher devised these being people having increasingly hectic lifestyles. This means them not having the time to learn a long form(can take more than a year). Hopefully after learning a short form/s their enthusiasm and interest will grow, they will see real results, and they can then go on to the "goodstuff".

My ears pricked up when you said push hands as i'd be interested in finding out about anyone doing tui shou (not in a class environment) as currently i don't have any training partners locally.

Neil

Hi, Neil,

The only Tai Chi Practitioner whom I know is Dan Docherty. He should be good because he trained under Grand Master Cheng Tin Hung when he was in the police in Hong Kong.

Grand Master Cheng is a well known Tai Chi Master and his students won numerous fights/open touranments in Asia.

I have never met Dan but I read his article in the Combat magazine.

I hear what you said regarding the reason for the short form but I cannot concur. Please bear in mind if every person only practise the short form and as time gone by no one will remember the long/traditional form. This means this good Tai Chi skill will disappear for good. Same is true to the traditional Chinese writing. The current Chinese government simplify some beautiful Chinese words because it said people found them difficult to write.

Do you know that traditional Chinese words have been using for more than 2000 years before the current government modified them. Sorry I divert the topic but the principle is the same. People modify things for the wrong reasons.

Sleepingcat

Peter Ellis of nwtcc is my master, Dan Docherty is his master and it is with Dan that I did bai shi and became an inside the door student.

Dan only issues teaching certificates to those of a certain standard this means both short and long forms, conditioning, martial applications and theory hopefully maintaining the integrity of our system. If you shop around you can find good teachers in other styles, though i am more than a little biased towards my own system.

As for modifications and who is teaching "the correct style" Dan has some things to say about this in his book complete tai chi chuan. i would paraphrase but i don't have the text at work with me today.

Dan has articles about the five components of tai chi, one being hand form on his website that you may be interested in. www.taichichuan.co.uk. I practice all of them (not all in one training session though).

I attended the british open tai chi championships yesterday and won gold and silver in fixed and moving step push hands so am more than a little happy (and more than a little achie) today.

Neil

Hi, Neil,

Sorry I was away so I could not response to your mail sooner. I am glad you train under Dan's lineage. As I said there are a lot of people who are not aware that Tai Chi is a good fighting skill. I am particularly annoyed with this misperception.

Perhaps, I am stubborn, I still maintain that people should practise the full form not short form. We as practitioners should maintain high standard and quality of the arts we practise. We should not compromise the arts due to financial consideration.

I happen to know that some people who train Wing Chun kung fu in a customers' expectation approach. What I mean here is practitioners who, in order to keep students' interest therefore more money, drop the traditional way of training by engaging muscle force, practising drills and punching. A lot of people are impatient and want to learn the art quick. This is why there is a demand for quick fix and practitioners meet with this expectation and compromise the quality of Wing Chun so as Tai Chi. Someone told me that you can complete the whole Wing Chun system in one year. This is rubbish.

Despite I have never met Dan but I have high expectation on him. You are lucky training in his lineage or better to say your gand master Cheng Tin Hung. If you have time and money, you should visit him either in Hong Kong or elsewhere in China.

Lastly, congratulation to you for your win.

with best wishes,

Sleepingcat

does anyone go to the tai chi classes at kingfield hall in hunters bar?

Are they still on there? I used to go about 4 or 5 years ago, David's an excellent teacher.

I keep meaning to start going again actually cos I really enjoyed it.

Which style of Tai Chi was it ?

tai chi chuan...spoke to him on the phone last night. Going to his class tomorrow (thurs) 7.15pm

he teaches mon and tues...ill post the times when i got back home.

heres the website

http://www.wutaichi.co.uk


oh and he teaches the sword :)

I went once a few years ago when i was finding out about tai chi chuan.


Neil

What was it like ?

I'm not the best person to give an unbiased view. He must be good as he has many students and many classes, but It wasn't what i was looking for. Really the only way to find out is to go down and try it.

Neil

Hello Everyone

I just wondered if anyone knows of any Tai Chi classes in SHeffield, preferably S8 area though I can travel - but only public transport!! Somthing central would be o.k., and I don't mind what day though I work full time so would have to fit in with that.
I've really wanted to learn for ages now so hope someone can help!!

thanks

Di

This is an excellent one that I used to go to (keep meaning to start again).

http://www.wutaichi.co.uk/

It's proper tai-chi, not a hippified yoga style version. They do classes one or two nights a week in Nether Edge - send them an email for the details, it may have changed since I last went.

Thanks Fantomas

I only just joined the Forum a few minutes ago and I'm well impressed everyone is soo friendly and helpful.....I'll send them an e-mail and see if its still on....


cheers

Di

If you can get up to the source at meadowhall on a tuesday 19:15 I teach "practical tai chi chuan". My teacher does every other saturday evening at hillsborough leisure centre 1600-1800, dates avaiable at http://freespace.virgin.net/nottingham.wudang/
beginners are welcome at both classes but saturdays class has a more martial element for those that are interested.

Neil

I am looking for Tai Chi and Qigong classes in Sheffield. Anyone has recommendations and contacts?

BYW, I am also looking for some statistics on how many people doing Martial Arts in Sheffield and the UK. Any clue that where can I get it? Any specification organisation for Martial Arts?

One world centre on Burngreave road, Ian Lee, he is a member of this site but I can't remember his details. He does Tai Chi and Qigong. Pop down is the easiest option. Up spital hill, 3/4 along the flat bit where the Mangla and shops are on the other side of the road is a door with a rainbow. If you go up in the eveings thats when he used to and probably still does Tai Chi. I have been meaning to go back. ring the buzzer just before 7pm any week evening and I imagine you would catch him.

They do them at the Buddhist Centre in Walkley as well: http://www.fwbosheffield.org/

Practical tai chi chuan at the source gym next to meadowhall. Tuesday 7:15 8:45 price £4 to non gym members. beginners welcome.

Neil

Hiya

There seem to be quite a few groups setting up in community centres with lottery funding, might be worth contacting local education centres as well - Sheffield Council do lots of community activities at no cost in certain parts of the city.

Good luck!

Candy

Well, I know Qigong died in Episode I at the hands of 'The Phantom Menace'. As for Tai Chi, I don't think he appears till the next episode.

There are 5 main things to look for when trying to find a tai chi class. These are -

Hand Form - the slow sequence of movements that we recognise as tai chi. To sum up It is believed that the taoists took martial techniques and taoist principles and produced this unique sequence of movements trianing concentration, relaxation, balanced turning and stepping, correct posture, continuity....

Push hands(tui shou) - training various skills such as listening, redirecting, emitting force, posture and using whole body force.

Martial Applications(san shou) - training the distinct martial applications that appear in the form. Without knowing these the form is nothing more than a flowing dance lacking in intent, focus and spirit.

Weapons - aid with focus, stepping, increase power and help all the other areas of tai chi chuan.

Nei gung(internal exercises) - the saying goes 'training chuan(boxing) without training gung, even if done until old age will be in vain.' Basically there needs to be some form of physically demanding excercises if you want any chance of your tai chi being martially effective. practical tai chi chuan has the 24 exercise (12 yin 12 yang) nei gung. These are not taught
openly in class. They are taught only after formal ritual initiation to the system(bai shi). Again these aid all the other areas of tai chi chuan practice.

There are also a few things which don't quite fit into these categories.

Anyone looking into starting tai chi chuan should ensure the classes they are looking at practice some of these five aspects. To train tai chi chuan as a complete system it must have all of these.


You can find more info at
www.taichichuan.co.uk

Cheers Neil

Thanks for all the information above. I know there is also classes on every Monday at the Goodwin Sports Centre.

There is a tai chi workshop taking place this Saturday 7 May at Hillsborough leisure centre

starts at 4pm
Main Hall
Hillsborough Leisure Centre
Penistone Road

Booking in advance cost £6.50. Cost on the day £4 per hour. Beginners welcome!

These classes are currently running monthly further dates are:
9 July 4.30pm , 30 July (TBC), 10 Sept 4pm.

do you know if there's classes for begginers anywhere over dronfield side of town?

Not doing the PTTCI Syllabus. Possibly the nearest is david barrow of wu style http://www.wutaichi.co.uk/ in nether edge. I teach on tuesdays at the source near meadowhall but i also travel to notts to my teacher from beauchief on thursday evenings.

I will be having a practice on endcliffe park early this evening if you want to see/ask questions.

Cheers
Neil

Thanks for the prompt reply. I'll try and have a look over the weekend, at the moment making time will be a challenge. Won't be able to make it to see you this evening, are you there regularly?

Cheers

No problem, was just on getting my daily forum fix. Nothing regular planned in the park yet, but like taking the advantage of the opportunity to train outdoors now the evenings are getting longer.

Hi n_tomo

Hows life and who did the workshop???

Hi Dave, All good thanks, cept for a non-training related back injury i've been nursing for the last week.

Class was being taught by Peter Ellis.
5 of the usual suspects attended no-one new.
Teaching covered Form, Form applications, conditioning, push hands and sabre applications.

How's things with you.
I'll send you a pm

Cheers
Neil

Hi guys, I was wondering if there are any people who teach the Chen form of Tai Chi around Sheffield

afraid i don't know anyone teaching chen style in sheffield. That doesn't mean there isn't anyone though.

Neil

Ah never mind, ill have a shifty around - thanks for trying tho neil

Out of interest what interests you about the Chen form?

Hi, Neil,

The only Tai Chi Practitioner whom I know is Dan Docherty. He should be good because he trained under Grand Master Cheng Tin Hung when he was in the police in Hong Kong.

Grand Master Cheng is a well known Tai Chi Master and his students won numerous fights/open touranments in Asia.

I have never met Dan but I read his article in the Combat magazine.

I hear what you said regarding the reason for the short form but I cannot concur. Please bear in mind if every person only practise the short form and as time gone by no one will remember the long/traditional form. This means this good Tai Chi skill will disappear for good. Same is true to the traditional Chinese writing. The current Chinese government simplify some beautiful Chinese words because it said people found them difficult to write.

Do you know that traditional Chinese words have been using for more than 2000 years before the current government modified them. Sorry I divert the topic but the principle is the same. People modify things for the wrong reasons.

Sleepingcat

Hi Sleepingcat,there is no way on earth Dan would ever let happen that people stop to train the long form!
If you learn under him or under one of his trained instructors it is NECESSARY to learn the long form!

Flying Brick

Sleepingcat;

everyone who get thaught by Dan Docherty has to learn the Long Form.
He just broken the system up to learn it easier...first Short round ,than Long Round ( if students stay long enough...)

Flying Brick

Hi,
I am a Lee Style teacher with the Taoist Cultural Arts Association (seahorsearts.co.uk), and I am opening a class in Crookes on Monday evenings, 7pm to 8.30pm. There are more details on sheffieldtaichi.co.uk.
Thanks

Hi guys, I was wondering if there are any people who teach the Chen form of Tai Chi around Sheffield

i've never heard of anyone teaching chen in sheffield over the last 10 years

best tai chi teacher in sheffield is david barrow, teaching traditional wu style very accurately and patiently

kingfield hall, brincliffe crescent, off psalter lane, mon, tue, thurs, 7pm

jobs a gudgudgudun

http://www.wu-taichi.de/cms/wu-taichi.com/

is tai chi not mainly frequented by 60 yr olds and pregnant women? I hope not because I am neither and have been looking for a new skill.

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thats great. I did it years ago. Do you do evenings?

is tai chi not mainly frequented by 60 yr olds and pregnant women? I hope not because I am neither and have been looking for a new skill.

no!:)

It's great stuff. Its been ages ( well years) but no 60 yr old etc. But what would it matter:confused:

no!:)

It's great stuff. Its been ages ( well years) but no 60 yr old etc. But what would it matter:confused:

It would imply that it were a sport that was easy for those of us who are bit older. I am relatively young and fit and so like to do things a bit faster and harder (so to speak!). :D

It would imply that it were a sport that was easy for those of us who are bit older. I am relatively young and fit and so like to do things a bit faster and harder (so to speak!). :D

well, hard and fast are not words usually associated with tai chi

although it is hard to learn, and our style (wu) has a fast form learned at advanced level

the slow form in wu tai chi derived from the fast form as a way to prepare for the fast form

i'm 36 and have been into tai chi for 10 years - our class is a mix of ages from people in their 20s to people in their 60s

don't look at it as a sport as such, more of an art

it can be practised until old old age - an experienced tai chi practitioner aged 90 could throw around an attacker aged 70 years younger, as it is a martial art not based upon physical force, but upon very cleverly worked out body mechanics and learning to neutralise the force of an attacker

one of the main reasons to practise tai chi according to traditional sources is "longevity and eternal spring" - modern day physiological studies show that tai chi practise has the effect of slowing down the aging process

I'm no longer in Sheffield but just checked in and saw this and was moved enough to comment.

This really makes me quite cross Ping Pang

<QUOTE>an experienced tai chi practitioner aged 90 could throw around an attacker aged 70 years younger</QUOTE>


Have you seen how ridiculous this sounds. Many texts have lofty ideals but it doesn't neccesarily mean they are true.
I know many christians who don't believe in the creation story.

The passage that you are referring to in the classics says how can a man of 90 beat a gang of young men

what it also says is "other styles are all about strong beating the weak the fast beating the slow how can this is down to force not skill"

If we are to believe the first passage you must also believe that all other martial arts are useless compared to tai chi chuan.


1: allegedly your teacher says that no one teaches martial tai chi so who is doing this throwing around??
2: your teacher is not 90 have you seen any other 90 year olds you practice with throwing 20 year olds around??
3: You seemed horrified at the fact that my style of tai chi actually hits people, hits them hard, and hits them continuously. We use yin AND yang if you don't train the yang(being hard at the correct time) then what you're art is bean curd boxing.
4: When i'm 90 i will be drinking tea doing forms and taking things a wee bit easier, but i'll hope that the years of effort that i put in will have kept me fit. I won't be throwing 20 year olds around!!! Unless i'm lucky, they are female and it is in the bedroom!


Use some pragmatism rather than blindly believing all you are told please!!
Also get some of your chaps to compete in some pushing hands and san shou competitions.

Keep it practical
Neil

I'm no longer in Sheffield but just checked in and saw this and was moved enough to comment.

This really makes me quite cross Ping Pang

<QUOTE>an experienced tai chi practitioner aged 90 could throw around an attacker aged 70 years younger</QUOTE>


Have you seen how ridiculous this sounds. Many texts have lofty ideals but it doesn't neccesarily mean they are true.
I know many christians who don't believe in the creation story.

The passage that you are referring to in the classics says how can a man of 90 beat a gang of young men

what it also says is "other styles are all about strong beating the weak the fast beating the slow how can this is down to force not skill"

If we are to believe the first passage you must also believe that all other martial arts are useless compared to tai chi chuan.


1: your teacher alleges that no one teaches martial tai chi so who is doing this throwing around??
2: your teacher is not 90 have you seen any other 90 year olds you practice with throwing 20 year olds around??
3: You seemed horrified at the fact that my style of tai chi actually hits people, hits them hard, and hits them continuously. We use yin AND yang if you don't train the yang(being hard at the correct time) then what you're art is bean curd boxing.
4: When i'm 90 i will be drinking tea doing forms and taking things a wee bit easier, but i'll hope that the years of effort that i put in will have kept me fit. I won't be throwing 20 year olds around!!! Unless i'm lucky, they are female and it is in the bedroom!


Use some pragmatism rather than blindly believing all you are told please!!
Also get some of your chaps to compete in some pushing hands and san shou competitions.

Keep it practical
Neil

sorry but what the heck are you on about mate?

what has made you cross about what i've said?

did you get out of bed on the wrong side today or something?

you think i'm talking nonsense? i don't care how ridiculous it sounds - surely you understand that one of the points of practising tai chi is to develop a martial approach that doesn't rely on physical strength to win, that relys on skill that can be developed and retained until the end of your life?

i don't know where your points 1 thru 4 have come from - would you care to enlighten us as to what motivated your post?

1) when did my teacher allege that noone teaches martial tai chi? not to me or to my class - all the moves have got application, and learning their applications forms part of our syllabus
I was thrown around like a leaf in the wind by young Master Ma (who is in his sixties) six months ago when he was demostrating some applications - i've been into martial arts since being a teenager and know skill when i see it - there was no way i could have laid a finger on that fella -

2) tho i've not seen this personally old master Ma was teaching til his late nineties and could throw you, me, his son young Ma, anyone who engaged him in combat about (lol except maybe another tai chi master of similar experience and balance) - dragonslist has got some decent footage available

3)sorry mate but can i have a pint of what you've been drinking? when did i seem horrified at anything like this in my previous post, or at any time? your assertion that we train only yin is total rubbish - it wouldn't be tai chi if we trained only yin or only yang? it wouldn't even by bean curd boxing
wtf random as you like there bud - i'm all for martial training, (i wish we did more in my class) and would have been along to join in your class if i didn't have to study at uni, work a job, study with my chosen sifu, produce music, play gigs, do all the other normal domestic stuff and relax occasionally too

4)well we agree on one point at least

and i don't need you to tell me to use some pragmatism - practicality is what i'm interested in - if it works it works, if it doesn't it doesn't

regarding pushing hands comps, maybe i'll go for some when i'm competent at pushing hands but i'm not now so what's the point? i've learnt the 5 one hand methods of pushing hands in our style, have yet to learn the two hand methods or the moving step methods, let alone go freestyle - all things in due course, i'm in no hurry - i'm working on getting the first single hand method nailed down, feeling the difference a few degrees body angle change makes to my rooting when i'm changing stance from forward to back etc - as i said, i'm in no hurry, i've never been into competitions even when i was a karateka or into muay thai - my competition is with myself

maybe when i can do freestyle i'll enter some for a laugh to test myself but not until then

chill out bud

:thumbsup:

Good,

Sure its a Monday morning and i'm a bit yang today but what you originally posted was at best misleading at worst dangerous. I don't want to be the reason a group of silver assassins get it together to take on the local hooded yoof. leading to a trail of broken hips, walking sticks and mostly dead silver assassins!! ; )

I agree that skill is important, in fact i highlighted that it was and that it isn't just tai chi people who have it. But before you can have skill you have to train gung

I will find the footage, but i am sure i have seen it before.

When i have pushed with a 90 year old i will believe this statement. I do agree however that a 60 year old who is adept at push hands would be able to push around someone who is not adept at push hands

Without the limitations of push hands a 90 year old faced by a 20 year old aggressor?

Don't get me wrong I do believe push hands is a valuable step along the way.

I only want the art of tai chi to become richer. I have lost in push hands many times but i learnt a lot from training for and participating in them. You get to see how other schools do what they do(not just one style).


It is a rich art and I want as many people as possible to develop in it to their fullest potential.


Neil

No worries Neil

if you look closely at my original post i did say an EXPERIENCED 90 year old, and we both know the scale of experience we're talkin here, decades of training, not yer average ol' duffer - i'd like to think that a potential goup of silver assassins would have developed the common sense not to jump in at the deep end by the time they reached their age, without knowing what they were or were not capable of doing!

i don't believe that i put any other art down in my post, either

From wikipedia:

Originally, to practice kung fu did not just mean to practice Chinese martial arts. Instead, it referred to the process of one's training - the strengthening of the body and the mind, the learning and the perfection of one's skills - rather than to what was being trained. It refers to excellence achieved through long practice in any endeavor. You can say that a person's kung fu is good in cooking, or that someone has kung fu in calligraphy; saying that a person possesses kung fu in an area implies skill in that area, which they have worked hard to develop. Someone with "bad kung fu" simply has not put enough time and effort into training, or seems to lack the motivation to do so. Kung fu is also a name used for the elaborate Fujian tea ceremony (Kung-fu cha).

i always feel that i learn more when i make mistakes rather than when i do something right! As i'm sure you know, being sent off balance in pushing hands is a cue to examine where ur going wrong, why did ur balance fail? a welcome opportunity as far as i'm concerned

yeah tai chi is a rich awesome and diverse art and i too would like to see as many people as possible carrying on the tradition of this vast body of important knowledge

good to see you back on the board

:headbang:

got a a post up about a meet at x mas if any one is Interested pm me.

got a a post up about a meet at x mas if any one is Interested pm me.

el linkolah?

el linkolah?

What ?????

Hi, Flying brick,

Thank you for letting me know that Dan trains students long form not short form. I read with interest particularly that from Neil and Pingpang.

As I said at the beginning of this thread that Tai Chi is a good fighting art not just for health. If a person trains properly under an experienced practitioner and he will improve his skills through continuing practising. Kung Fu training is a life long career. You should take it as an art. Practitioner uses his skills and sensitivities to win in a fight not with brute force. I do not disagree an old man even at 90 (providing that he is reasonable healthy and strong) is able to throw a young man away. Same is truth in Wing Chun. You win if you are able to control your opponent rather than hitting him/her.


Sleepingcat

Hi all,
My name is Boz. I am starting a new Tai chi class in Sheffield at Shala Yoga Centre on Wednesday nights 17th and 24th Jan 2007 - times 20:00~20:55 and also 21:00~22:00. All welcome.

I have been teaching and practicing Taiji for over 20 years. I started with David Barrow for 8 years. At present, I am with Patrick Kelly student of Huang Sheng Sheng.

I have met Dan Docherty on several occasions.

Heres my email address Hi all,
My name is Boz. I am starting a new Tai chi class in Sheffield at Shala Yoga Centre on Wednesday nights 17th and 24th Jan 2007 - times 20:00~20:55 and also 21:00~22:00. All welcome.

I have been teaching and practicing Taiji for over 20 years. I started with David Barrow for 8 years. At present, I am with Patrick Kelly student of Huang Sheng Sheng.

I have met Dan Docherty on several occasions.

Heres my email address: boz@alltaiji.com
if you type www infront of alltaiji.com this will take you to my website

Regards
Boz

Hi,
I note that a few people have been asking about a tai chi class in Sheffield. I run a class at Millhouses on a Sunday afternoon 4.00pm 'till 6.00pm. Its a small and friendly class with some people that have been with me for 18 months, and some that have been coming for anly a few weeks.
Were having a holiday for a few weeks, but are back on 19th August. The first class is free. Take a look at tai-chi-sheffield.co.uk for more details.
Barry

it is good to know you are interested in the trantional chinese matrial art,taichi.
I am a Phd student in Shef U coming in sept.2008. i have been learning the tachi about 2 years in china. I learn the form of Hong-methoded Chen style taichi.
here is my master's website: w ww.njtiaji. net, which has a english vesion and you can learn more about it.
many chinese and western people focus on the health and relexation effort of taichi, but you should always remember it is a kind of martial art, which is born to fight. Here is a lot of skills in the pushing hand and sanshou(free hand fight). As a beginer, i need find some friends to pracitce together. i would love to pracitce with you and it would be very interesting.
Anyone is welcome if you like Taichi or chinese culture. I am not a qualified fight, but at least i can teach you the form and let you know more:)


PS, it is friends finding, not for commercial.

xiaofeng

lxfbear@hotmail.com

Hi,

Many tai chi exercises cultivate the growth and storage of qi gong to promote longer life, faster recovery from accidents and better health conditions. Qi is also important I establishing good health conditions that is why tai chi exercise and qi gong works together to stimulate the major organs of the body. Regular practice of tai chi exercise will spare you from experiencing pain caused by arthritis, lumbago and sciatica.

This is brilliant! First a fued between the kickboxing clubs, then the MMA people and now exponents of the 'gentle but deadly' art of Tai Chi! What next? Angling clubs, or maybe knitting circles?
By the way, I heard that the kickboxers reckon you lot are a bunch of fairies. The MMA people don't like either of you because you're scared of getting mucky on the floor. None of you even want to know what the kung-fu lot have said about all of you!

This is brilliant! First a fued between the kickboxing clubs, then the MMA people and now exponents of the 'gentle but deadly' art of Tai Chi! What next? Angling clubs, or maybe knitting circles?
By the way, I heard that the kickboxers reckon you lot are a bunch of fairies. The MMA people don't like either of you because you're scared of getting mucky on the floor. None of you even want to know what the kung-fu lot have said about all of you!

Your post = this (http://img.chan4chan.com/img/2009-02-26/1235671686144.gif)

This is brilliant! First a fued between the kickboxing clubs, then the MMA people and now exponents of the 'gentle but deadly' art of Tai Chi! What next? Angling clubs, or maybe knitting circles?
By the way, I heard that the kickboxers reckon you lot are a bunch of fairies. The MMA people don't like either of you because you're scared of getting mucky on the floor. None of you even want to know what the kung-fu lot have said about all of you!

:loopy::loopy::loopy::loopy::loopy::loopy::loopy:

This is brilliant! First a fued between the kickboxing clubs, then the MMA people and now exponents of the 'gentle but deadly' art of Tai Chi! What next? Angling clubs, or maybe knitting circles?
By the way, I heard that the kickboxers reckon you lot are a bunch of fairies. The MMA people don't like either of you because you're scared of getting mucky on the floor. None of you even want to know what the kung-fu lot have said about all of you!

So ..... SiSiSi joined us in May 2009, has posted 5 posts so far and 3 of them have been trolling Martial Artists ......

Hmmmm ...... me thinks he has a problem????? He reminds me of a poster a couple of years ago ...... RobbieBrown I think his name was...... claimed he was opening a kickboxing club with no experience of KB at all ...... hmmmmm ..... I wonder!!!!!

I remember him! Didn't he con you lot so much that there were suggestions that a group of you ought to go around and sort him out? It took ages for you to spot the wind-up! People with problems are those that take themselves too seriously.

I remember him! Didn't he con you lot so much that there were suggestions that a group of you ought to go around and sort him out? It took ages for you to spot the wind-up! People with problems are those that take themselves too seriously.

:hihi: Nope - whoever he duped I spotted him from very early on ..... as I suspect I've spotted you Robby :hihi:

I'm flattered that you compare me to such a great man, unfortunately I only walk in the shadow of his turbulence. He snared all of you, I haven't even managed to provoke a response from Chefkicker! Just about everyone on the forum has managed to do that, MA threads or not! So have I got it wrong about the 'our instructor/style/techniques/uniform/hairstyles are better than yours' thing then? I reckon not.

I'm a practitioner of Yi Chuan, Chen Style Tai Chi, Bagua and Kung Fu. I'd like to arrange a regular meet, maybe in the Botanical Gardens, for practitioners in Sheffield to train and push together. Any forms accepted, from simple fixed step all the way to full contact. Anyone from student to National Championship/Instructor level welcome. Having had regular meets in London for the last 6 years I've found this kind of meet to be hugely beneficial to all involved. Meets are also a great place to meet people interested in Internal arts and discuss/compare training methods and styles. Obviously no charge, the only requirement is a respectfull chivalrus attitude to martial training. Please email me if you are interested and I can start co-ordinating the meet. MischaHill84@googlemail.com

Looking foward to pushing with you,
Mischa

excellent tai chi in Sheffiled 8, every Tuesday 7-8pm at Meersbrook UR Church, S8 0RP, email smg6161@gmail.com www.sheffieldtaichi.org , founded 1984 by senior student of Chee Soo.

Tai chi on Wednesday,7:00 at the community centre on Greseley road Lowedges. Really nice friendly class, would suit all abilities.