We spent a wonderful weekend at the TaiChi Medical Centre on Lake Constance! It was great to come together once again, train together, learn together and of course indulge in socialising! We were very diligent in the different areas – from basic exercises to weapons to fast form, almost everything was there. A worthy conclusion to the seminar was, as always, the joint „running“ of the long form. This year
Mit Fassungslosigkeit mussten wir die traurige Nachricht entgegennehmen, dass unser langjähriger Taichi-Lehrer und Gefährte im Alter von erst 55 Jahren verstorben ist.Martin ist es zu verdanken, dass das Wu-Taichichuan von Ma Jiangbao in Deutschland und Europa Fuß fassen konnte und zu dem geworden ist, was es heute ist.Er, so wie seine leider vor 11 Jahren verstorbene Frau Freya, opferten ihre akademische Karriere zugunsten der Verbreitung des Taichichuan, welches Meister Ma
TaiChi de luxe under Italy´s mild sun The first week of Oktober gave 30 enthusiats (us!) five days of intensive training at Costa del Lago Maggiore. Sabre, TuiShou, parts of the Long Slow Form under best weather coditions at Ghiffa´s beach. The highly motivated team of teachers: Jutta, Margrit, Maik, Paul, Udo and of course Ulrich made individual training possible, so that everybody could get as much as he or
Late but not too late we want to tell you about this year´s Whitsun seminar! The traditional seminar took place at Geldern this year, in a bright, 1,5-fold school-sportshall with mensa. On Saturday, as always, focus was on beginners and correction of the Long Slow Form. Advanced students could get new input, too. On Sunday, we trained Sabre and Lance Form and Pushing. Due to the small group, we could
We all appreciated the new setting of the Linz Seminar very much! Participants and teachers came form near and far to make it an international event. Not only that we had fine weather, good food and a beautifully modulated group- we were very glad about the air condition of out location, so we could learn without overheating. We begun the seminar with a practical lecture about stress-free shoulders to loosen,
Participants from Germany, Switzerland and Austria were welcomed by great spring weather to enjoy an informative and cheerful seminar. Traditionally we began with training and improving the basic exercises all together. Saturday was busy- TaiChi basics, form, weapons and pushhands were trained in groups od individually. Of course, we had to eat, too- which we enjoyed in „our“ restaurant at Lake Constance. During the breaks was time to be outside-
Dear Members, please find attached the invitation to our general meeting. We are looking forward to see you. Ulrich Gössler
Text by Barbara Kienzle Fotos by Georges Rousseau-Delvaux, Gigi Iori und Sergio Alvarez Small but nice 24 TaiChi enthusiats from Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain met at Lago Maggiore to train together. Old hands and so-to-be ones enjoyed late summer days in Italy. The offer´s range met everybodys needs, one could train Basics, TouShou, several weapons and of course the classic: Slow Form Thanks to the teaching team -Ulrich,
We had a great seminar in Linz! Participants came parially from quite far to train with us in a concentrated, but relaxed atmosphere. Each lession began with the basic exercises which we performed together: After that we seperated in 2 groups to learn and improve form, mainly parts 2 and 6: Everybody brought some delicious food, so we had enough to eat in breaks. We all enjoyed lunch on the
for dutch version please scroll down written by Bart Saris Finally a Whitsun seminar again! After last year’s decision to cancel it, due to too few registrations and too much overhead-costs, we started looking for cheaper alternatives. Thanks to Helga we found it in Issum (DE) near Geldern (DE) and so we moved the oldest seminar from Venlo (NL) to Geldern (DE). As a result, despite the still limited number