If I am intruding I am sorry, my name is Stephen and I am a student
to forums.
I have been looking for something that clicks with my interest for
about 6-7 months and you really caught my eye. The thing is I am from
Liverpool (uk) and started working with my mate at Liverpool John
Lennon Airport who kept talking about his work mate Joe who most
people did not was an old hand hand at Chinease Kung-Foo . Now I've
always been inspired by the way of their origins from my primary
school mate whose parents came from China. Even though Kung-foo was
popular by Bruce Lee I was fascinated by what I called Chinease
dancing better known as Tai-Chi. It wasn't until the Shoalin Monks
came to my town and I met a Howard new employee at the airport that it
all came together. It turns out that Joe and Howard were among 7
people to be trained free of charge by the only school to teach none
asian people in the early 70's UK.
When I met Howard at work and started talking we soon realised Joe and
Howard were old pupils of Jimmy Chen. He asked if Iwas interested in
Kung Foo which the answer was of course yes but I made clear it was
tai-chi that fascinated me. It soon came clear that he was still
training everyday in kung foo but was also a training in tai-chi, soon
after I was a member of the Jimmy Chen Tai-Chi school and having
personal lessons once a week. Now I am not blowing my own trumpet but
I took to it like a duck to water.Even Howard was constantly joking
about my training regime as I trained everyday for at least 4-5 hours,
(which in my eyes is nothing as it should be 8-12). I eventually took
my nephew and niece which lived 30 miles away and my mother with me
once a week.My nephew John who was 12,he wanted to train privately but
my niece he wanted too train Kung Foo as she was only 8. We went for
over 2 years but certain things happened and I stopped going to
Howards classes even though I do train, but as I am sure you know once
you stop you going too class you never progress which I seriously kick
myself about. There are classes in Liverpool but none are under Jimmy
Chen's or the Old Form. So as you can guess maybe I am a daydreamer
but I do have dreams even though I am 35 I do long for the opportunity
to fullfill my aspirations and seeing you do what I have always
dreamed off I salute you. So I shall get to the point is it too late
to go to China to teach English and also be trained in the ancient
arts of Tai-Chi of which I honestly dream of ???
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE DO ME A JUSTLY FAVOUR AND E-MAIL ME BACK
AS I AM IN LIMBO AND NEED AN HONEST REPLY.
CHEERS.
steordsw
...@googlemail.com
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On 5 Nov, 02:19, daniel <mr.d.p...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 05/11/2007, wrote:
> > Dear Dan,
> > Hi. I happened to see on one of your posts to the
> > qigong group that you spent some time at Hua Shan.
> > Are you referring to the Hua Shan in Shaanxi province?
> > I was just wondered if you studied taiji there with
> > the Daoists or if you lived in that area for awhile.
> > I was interested in possibly doing such things. Ok, I
> > look forward to your reply!
> > Thanks,
> Hi
> Hua Shan is relatively close to Xi'an, so when I was traveling around,
> I took a detour and visited Hua Shan. I didn't intend to study
> anything there, and there wasn't any kind of organized study on the
> mountain itself. The mountain environment was very harsh, so you would
> be very brave to go and live up there. At the base of the mountain, I
> seem to remember that there was a daoist temple that emphasized taichi
> practice amongst its disciples. Their practice wasn't open to the
> public back then, but that was in 1999. Things may have changed now.
> On the other hand, if their taichi practice strayed towards the qigong
> side of things, the government probably wouldn't let that happen.
> I hope that helps
> Dan
