Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword World Tai Chi Day: Joining the Global Wave The Saturday the World Moves Together Helen, 60, a school nurse from Lexington, Kentucky, had practiced tai chi sword alone for fourteen months when a flyer at the library mentioned World Tai Chi Day at the botanical garden. … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword Community: Finding Your Practice Group The Solitary Practitioner Who Needed People Frank, 62, a retired firefighter from Spokane, Washington, practiced alone in his backyard for two years. His form was decent, his habit solid, and his enthusiasm quietly draining. Practice had become a chore he performed … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword Forms List: The Major Sets Explained The Class That Asked Which Form Rosa, 58, a librarian from Albuquerque, New Mexico, arrived at her first tai chi sword class with a notebook question: which form are we learning? Her instructor’s answer surprised her. The 32 Form now, … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword Accessories: What Is Actually Worth Buying The Bundle That Gathered Dust Dan, 53, a bank manager from Omaha and a new tai chi sword student, Nebraska, celebrated starting tai chi sword by buying the “complete master set” a marketplace recommended: sword, decorative stand, wall plaque, sharpening … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword Storage: Long-Term Home Care The Sword in the Damp Basement Larry, 68, a retired electrician from Buffalo, New York, stored his late teacher’s jian in the basement after the funeral, meaning to organize a proper display later. Later took two years. When he finally retrieved it, … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword for Small Hands: Grip Fit Guide The Handle Nobody Could Wrap Around Mei, 38, a piano teacher from Portland, Oregon, has hands sized for octave work, not lumber. Her first tai chi sword, a handsome steel jian bought online, exhausted her forearm in five minutes. She … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword for Tall People: Sizing and Stances The Sword That Stopped at the Ceiling James, 41, an architect from Minneapolis who stands six foot five, bought his first tai chi sword by height chart, like everyone else. The chart topped out at six foot one. He guessed, … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword in Public: Practicing Past the Stares The Park Bench Problem Steve, 57, a high school teacher from Ann Arbor, Michigan, practiced tai chi sword in his garage for eight months. The garage was fine except for what it lacked: space, sky, and the particular pleasure of … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword Hotel Room Practice: The Traveler Plan The Streak That Survived a Sales Conference Natalie, 44, a medical device sales rep from Denver, Colorado, covers eleven states and lives in hotels roughly a hundred nights a year. When she started tai chi sword, her instructor warned her … Read more
Category: Learning & Training Meta Title: Tai Chi Sword One Year Progress: What Actually Changes Three Hundred Mornings Later Walter, 63, a retired pharmacist from Greenville, South Carolina, marked his one-year practice anniversary by doing what he had done roughly three hundred times that year: fifteen minutes in his backyard at dawn, wooden jian in … Read more