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Welcome to the AEA Tai Chi Club

Our club primarily practices Yang Style T'ai Chi Ch'uan and related Qigong forms. The numbered forms often indicate"government" style forms. Our members and friends also practice Wu Style, Chen style T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Ba Gua Zhang, Xing Yi Quan and Yi Quan.

 

News

The AEA Tai Chi Club is offering a Traditional Bagua Zhang class the class in addition to a Yang style Tai Chi Long Form class.

The class will be 10 sessions total.  The fee for this class is $50.  To sign up for the class, please send your payment made payable to the "AEA Tai Chi Club", to our club treasurer, C. T. Chu (M2/248), or give it to Sam Jeng in class.  Please include both the annual membership form and membership fee for FY12.  

Bagua Zhang

Brief Description*
Bagua Zhang, an internal Chinese martial art, employs circle walks, palm changes, body spinning and  turning, and rapid changes in direction.  The practitioner walks the circle holding various postures and executing palm changes.  It cultivates a flexible, fluid yet springy type of movement.  Bagua Zhang is based on the theory of continuously changing in response to the situation at hand in order to overcome an opponent with skill rather than brute force.

Students will learn basic techniques in footwork, palm changes, balance, and proper body posture;  and will also learn the first two of the eight routines of the Traditional Bagua Zhang. No previous experience required.


Introduction to Traditional Bagua Zhang Class:
Instructor:                               Master Su Zifang; Master Zhao Yun
Location:                                Del Aire Park (located on Isis Ave. & El Segundo Blvd. behind Denny's restaurant) 
Time:                                      11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Class Fee for Members:                $50 (student payment)
Membership Fee (required):        $15 (Aerospace & Air Force Employees) / $20 (All Others)  **

* Annual membership fee is for 10/1/11 - 9/30/12 (our company fiscal year period) .

Books by our friends:

The webmaster recommends the book (left) entitled The Philosophey of Tai Chi Chuan by Freya and Martin Boedicker of the Ma Jiang Bao's Wu style group, European Association for Traditional Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan. (Ma Jiang Bao is the son of Ma Yueh Liang and Wu Ying Hua, and grandson of Wu style founder Wu Jian Qian.)

Another book that we can highly recommend is Louis Swaim's excellent translation of the great book Fu Zhongwen's Mastering Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan. For many years, this book was a practice manual for our club.

REMINDER If you haven't already done so, please remember to sign up for club membership by filling out the membership form (pdf file) using This Link for 2012 AEA Membership form  (in pdf format) or This Link for Micosoft Word format Membership form.

Thanks!!   
 

Benefits of Tai Chi Practice

In addition to being one of the main branches of Chinese kung fu, Tai Chi Chuan is well known as effective practice for stress reduction and health improvement. Tai Chi has sometimes been described as joint yoga because of the character of the movements. Tai Chi has elements of Qigong, standing and moving meditation. As a martial art, Tai Chi Chuan is built on balance, body structure, relaxation and patience. It is also built on "chi" which might be described as the unifying component ("intention") that integrates the physical (substantial - e.g., body) and the nonphysical (insubstantial - e.g., mind). At high levels Tai Chi Chuan is an extremely effective martial art, but it can take a a long time to learn. These and other aspects of Tai Chi make the practice of Tai Chi Chuan a life style choice rather than a quick course of self-defense techniques or quick fix set of health exercises.

Last Modified: December 16, 2011