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Browsing Archive: November, 2013

avoiding falls and broken wrists

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Friday, November 29, 2013,
Everywhere I've been this week, I've seen people with broken wrists from falls. Undoubtedly due to lots of wet leaves and such, but there are things you can do to help yourself - both prevention of falls and mitigation of the effects of falling:

First off, do plenty of tai chi walking - this will not only help you improve your awareness of where your weight is, but will also help you walk around with slightly bent knees as your default in everyday life. Straight locked knees are just asking fo...
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Chinese painting and tai chi

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Tuesday, November 19, 2013,
I have loved Chinese art, since I went to an exhibition in Glasgow many years ago. Today, with a friend I  went to the latest exhbition at the V&A in London, which was titled Masterpieces of Chinese Painting 700-1900", which reminded me all over again how wonderful this art is.   I will have to go back again, to see the "Digital Dragons", where you can apparently zoom and swoop through the landscape of the paintings....

Anyway, I got into tai chi through failing to get onto any Chinese painti...
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Chi in Tai Chi

Posted by Fiona Anderson. on Friday, November 8, 2013,
When a group of us were doing a demo, some teens came up and asked "can you use your chi power?"  The remake of the Karate Kid had just come out around that time and that obviously had sparked their question. It's understandable that what you see in films bears no relation to reality chi-wise, as the reality doesn't make exciting action to watch.

Also, there's a lot of stuff in books these days, some of which is accurate, but a lot of which is just written either out of sheer ignorance or just...
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