{"id":797,"date":"2013-07-07T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T22:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/?p=797"},"modified":"2013-07-07T22:00:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T22:00:52","slug":"tai-chi-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/07\/tai-chi-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tai Chi Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/community.meiquan.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mei Quan community site<\/a> has some useful guidance on the 24 step short form:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-798\" alt=\"step1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step1.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step one is called Opening the Form. I find this easy to remember .. the rest not so much.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-799\" alt=\"step2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step2.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 2 is called Part the Wild Horse&#8217;s Mane. It starts from left bow stance, moves to right bow stance and returns to left bow stance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-800\" alt=\"step3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step3.jpg\" width=\"495\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 3, White Crane Spreads its wings involves much waving of hands and seems more complicated than it is. Most of this step in in left hanging stance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-801\" alt=\"step4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step4.jpg\" width=\"595\" height=\"102\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 4 is Brush Knee with Twist Step and I am finding this difficult.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-802\" alt=\"step5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerquests.netstorms.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/step5.jpg\" width=\"296\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 5 is called Play the Guitar and is as far as I&#8217;ve gone with the form.<\/p>\n<p>So far I&#8217;ve not really practiced much outside the class, which is why I feel I&#8217;ve retained so little.<\/p>\n<p>Another possibly useful resource can be found at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P5hvODK2zW4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P5hvODK2zW4<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0which seems to be the beginning of a video series on the short form. I haven&#8217;t look at it in all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mei Quan community site has some useful guidance on the 24 step short form: Step one is called Opening the Form. I find this easy to remember .. the rest not so much. &nbsp; Step 2 is called Part the Wild Horse&#8217;s Mane. It starts from left bow stance, moves to right bow&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/2013\/07\/07\/tai-chi-notes\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innerquests.chidakasha.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}