Bart war einer der langjährigsten Schüler von Ma Jiangbao, Tudi, Lehrer, jahrelanger 1. Vorsitzender des EWTC und Freund. Obwohl er schon länger krank war, hat uns die Nachricht von seinem Tod überrascht. Auf seinen Wunsch hin war die Verabschiedung im kleinsten Kreis – wir gedachten seiner bei der Mitgliederversammlung. Ruhe in Frieden, Bart! Bart was one of Ma Jiangbao’s longest standing students, tudi, teacher, long-time EWTC 1st Chair and friend.
At the beginning of April, enthusiastic Tai Chi practitioneers met in the traditional manner at Lake Constance for a 3-day spring seminar. From beginners to form to sabre, the participants diligently learned, practised and improved. During the breaks there was excellent coffee from Barrista Ulrich, cakes and other delicacies that the participants brought along and lots of lively conversation. Our physical well-being was taken care of in the restaurant „im
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
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