TaiChi-Akademie Rhein-Sieg

Prices:

external participants                                  : 65.- €

students from any ISSA School                  : 55.- €


All registrations will be affirmed by email.  All registrations are definite.

Times:

Our seminars are conducted on saturdays (or sundays) from  9:30 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 16:30.

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16.05 Self Defense with Tai Chi Chuan (Sunday)

22.05  Principles in Form and Application

12.06  Training on the Ip Family Form

26.06  Saber

04.07 Chin-Na (So.)

17.07 24 Posture Form

01.08. Self Defense with Tai Chi Chuan (Sunday)

02.08. - 22.08 Summer Pause of the Akademie

29.08. Daoyin (Qi Gong - Nei Gong) (So.)

04.09 Training on the traditional Form

26.09. Sword (So.)

10.10. Tui Shou & Partner Excercises(So.)

23.10. 24 Posture Form

Ende of October -  Master Boyd in Serbien

Start of November -  Master Boyd in France

14.11 "After Bob Seminar" for all that stayed home(So.)

28.11 Self Defense with Tai Chi Chuan ( Special: Weapons) (Sunday)

11.12. Working on the Snake Style Principles

18.&19. 12 Special Seminar "Weapons" (Two days on Saber, Sword, Spear and Staff in form, energy and application)

Seminars with Master Bob Boyd

On these seminars we will always work on details and a deeper understanding on the Snake Style Tai Chi of the Ip Family (originating from the Yang style). The main part of the seminar will be available only to students well familiar with the snake style, and there will also be an introductional seminar unit for advanced tai chi practitioners and teachers from the outside who want to get a feeling on the Ip Family style. You can always come to one of our ISSA schools in advance to learn the needed foundation to attend the full seminar and start out with Snake Style right away.
The Snake Style students will be working on further corrections on the form, applications of tai chi movements and principles in self defense, feeling, listening and understanding of the inner workings and functions of the deep core muscles, sinews and ligaments, especially these that give a solid rooting and bring power to the hands.
This will be trained and deepened in single- and partner exercises. Furthermore there will be a session on a weapon form, if it will be saber, sword or spear will be decided upon in time.
In the introductional seminar the basics and important vertices of the Snake Style system will be taught for the interested newcommers. These basics are a real treasure-trove for advanced students also, for with a deeper understanding of the whole system, the advanced practitioner can find surprisingly new and deep knowledge there, that were previously simply beyond his scoop or disregarded as probably not that important
To truly master the art of Tai Chi Chuan it is of utmost importance to really understand the underlying theory, or it will always stay an empty dance without real power and meaning. Thus the transmission of the Snake Style theory is always an important point in both the introductional and the closed seminars.”The mind trains the body” is a not to underestimate fact. A practitioner can do the same movement a hundred times to grind it in, but still has not understood the inner workings and instead is only repeating outwards what the teacher is demonstrating. This will, in fact, not lead to quick results and “wow-experiences” but in contrary will mostly slow a talented student down. However, if one has grasped the underlying system one can analyze and correct every movement and every action with this knowledge, regardless how much variation there is between one move and the other. This is the reason, why the theoretical part will also play a major part.
This approach is a wee bit different than most other seminars one has probably attended, where a few selected sets were trained over and over again for hours, with different partners, though, and was physically drained at the end. Contrary to that the aim is to convey the Snake Style system as a whole, and to give the students enough armamentarium to have enough to work and develop on for month and month to come. Some seminar participants can digest 10% to 20% of the offered knowledge, other 80% and more, for everyone takes as much knowledge as one can stomach. If one then deepens this knowledge afterwards with friends who tagged along, or in his ISSA school basically nothing stands in the way for a fast, great development.

Ip Tai Tak once said in regards to the common idea of 5 hours or more training a day to become a good tai chi practitioner: “To become good in tai chi chuan you need to train an hour in the morning and an hour in the evening, but therefore you have to train the right stuff.  … you can only have one master, so empty your cup and forget what you learned!”

Dedicatedly following grandmaster Ip´s advice, Master Boyd emptied his cup, and now only teaches what Ip Tai Tak taught him. No mix-up with different styles or transmissions, no mix-up of principles and explanations from different masters, but pure and unadulterated the Snake Style of the Ip Family transmission (out of the Yang style from Yang Sau Chung)
We analyze, work on and train the Snake Style principles, basic foundations and techniques on the selected seminar theme from different angles to produce a deeper understanding and a firmer grasp on it in the mind of the students. With that understanding all the later private training benefits far greater than by using the more common repetitive approach to training.

Naturally this also demands more from the students, in particular an awake and attentive  mind, observantly questioning and very focused training and transferring of the knowledge into one’s own training regimen – not as a mere consumer, but as a committed practitioner of the Snake Style Tai Chi Chuan of Grandmaster Ip and Master Boyd.
The exact seminar contents and the daily schedule will be made public round about 6 month prior to the Seminar. The number of attendances is limited to 40 persons; the places are reserved in accord to the sequence of registration.

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