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Mathew Birchall
Nov 8, 20244 min read
Points Of Note 👉
Learn how to read your weapon, know your tools aspects – every one of them has some form of...
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Mathew Birchall
Jun 16, 20243 min read
20 Years in.
It’s now been twenty years to the day that the Blue Lotus Tai Chi Club was formed (prior teaching aside) by one of life’s affable eccentrics
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Mathew Birchall
Oct 6, 202312 min read
TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN
All traditional martial arts without fail have a strong spiritual dimension to their training. Which to some can seem a little strange, pair
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Mathew Birchall
Sep 29, 20234 min read
FORM PRACTISED FOR ZEN CULTIVATION
Tai Chi is about feeling rather than thinking. It is possible to collect a lot of intellectual knowledge about Tai Chi without really penetr
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Mathew Birchall
Sep 22, 20233 min read
TAO IN FORM
Tai Chi is an art of balance, physical, mental and emotional balance. True mastery of any martial system can only result after years of unco
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Mathew Birchall
Sep 15, 20234 min read
MOVING MEDITATION
Martial arts are not purely about fighting skills, they also focus on inner development, touching that part of us that seeks higher things (
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Mathew Birchall
Sep 8, 20233 min read
CHI AND YI IN FORM
Tai Chi Chuan was developed out of Wudang fighting styles whose most significant difference from Shaolin fighting styles is their focus on i
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Mathew Birchall
Sep 1, 20232 min read
WEI WU WEI
Tai Chi Chuan should be a totally unassumed doing. You cannot practice Tai Chi Chuan with the rational mind...
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Mathew Birchall
Aug 25, 20237 min read
How a Spider Man comic and a coconut changed my life (for the better!)
“Come to the edge, he said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them. They flew.” Christopher Logue...
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Mathew Birchall
Aug 12, 20235 min read
Truth Stranger Than Fiction!
A little Tai Chi ephemera for you.
There are very few fictional books which include Tai Chi Chuan within their plot. However back in 1979 a
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Mathew Birchall
Aug 8, 20233 min read
LAY YOUR HANDS ON ME! 👐
“It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary.”
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Mathew Birchall
Dec 20, 20225 min read
SENNINBARI – HARAMAKI
‘ The Beaver's best course, was no doubt, to procure A second hand dagger–proof coat _ _ So the Baker advised it_ _ and next, to insure...
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Mathew Birchall
May 7, 20223 min read
We've been busy!
Newton Class 3rd May '22 Oh what a tangled web we weave Well done all, it looks like you've got Fist Under Elbow (Zhou Di Kan Chui)...
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Mathew Birchall
Oct 11, 20202 min read
Just Let The Magic Do That Thing That It Does
Tai Chi is many things - a martial art, a mystical art, a magical art and a holistic art, and you need to embrace all these different aspe
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Mathew Birchall
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Staying Level
"Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision."
Winston Churchill
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Mathew Birchall
Sep 8, 20205 min read
Playing with Peng
Peng 'To ward off slanting upward' is essentially an inflated, rising outward, expanding energy. It's the first energy of the Ba Fa,...
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Mathew Birchall
Aug 30, 20203 min read
THREE DAN TIEN MEDITATION
It is used to recharge and balance energy at the beginning of the day, in times of stress it reduces anxiety by quieting the mind.
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Mathew Birchall
Aug 30, 20203 min read
SLOW, SLOW, QUICK, QUICK, SLOW!
Contrary to popular opinion Tai Chi Chuan is not complicated. It can be broken down into eight basic energies, eight directions, five...
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