Class Times & Locations

San Rafael Community Center
6:45 to 7:30 Tai Chi Form
7:30 to 8:00 Tai Chi Sword

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Tai Chi is an amazing way to improve your health, balance, strength, energy and ward off illness and is used by millions worldwide.  This safe pleasant form of exercises is full of countless benefits.

Why not learn more about this ancient art from international gold medalist and recognized Master Instructor Scott Jensen.

 

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Tai Chi Master Scott Jensen performing Yang Style Tai Chi

 

Harvard Medical School Highly Recommends Tai Chi

“This gentle form of exercise can prevent or ease many ills of aging and could be the perfect activity for the rest of your life.

Tai chi is often described as “meditation in motion,” but it might well be called “medication in motion.” There is growing evidence that this mind-body practice, which originated in China as a martial art, has value in treating or preventing many health problems.”

-Harvard Health Publications

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For the art of  Tai Chi Quan, we have curated 5 different paths for learning this magnificent art, the Grand Ultimate. You can pick whichever path that suites you to start your Tai Chi study. You will learn the classic Tai Chi Old Yang Family Long Form taught by lineage Grandmaster Wong Jackman.

The current Qi Gong program includes Liang Zhen Pu Style Bagua Zhang, Muscle Tendon Changing Classic – Yi Jin Jing, Primordial Energy Arts and more. New lessons added every month.

Why Study Tai Chi Chuan with Sifu Jensen?

With over thirty years of research I have acquried a clear understanding of the art of Tai Chi Chuan. I have used the art of
Tai Chi to recover from severe injuries. I’ve refined my teaching methods by helping thousands of people improve their health.
In addition, I have studied with some of the most famous teachers in the world and won important Tai Chi competitions.

A traditional and complete curriculum of Tai Chi includes the following:

• Stretching Exercises – Build range of motion and tendon strength.
• Posture Holding – Standing motionless, holding a pose, to develop strength and Qi.
• Technique Drills – Practice sequences of short sections of individual moves.
• Tai Chi Hand Form – This is the slow motion, dance like sequence, that most students focus on.
• Tai Chi Sword and other weapons – Most styles of Tai Chi contain a sword form, a few have a complete selection of traditional weapons forms.

TAI CHI CLASS TIMES

San Rafael Tai Chi Chuan Classes is 6:45 – 7:30 PM every Monday and Wednesday, in the Auditorium, San Rafael Community Center, 618 B Street, San Rafael, CA 94901.

Study with Sifu Jensen privately call: 415-455-9467, or email: Practice@10000Victories.com

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Tai Chi Sword

The Tai Chi sword is a beautiful sequence of Tai Chi movements performed while holding a sword.

Originally, Tai Chi sword was a way of learning and practicing the movements required for fencing. Since sword fighting isn’t so common these days, we practice for pleasure and exercise.

The Tai Chi sword (or jian in Chinese) is a straight double edged sword. This classical weapon signified social status and command. The sword was favored by Taoist priests and priestesses, as well as scholars, for self protection.

The postures are both beautiful to watch, and to perform.

For Tai Chi students who have already completed the Tai Chi form learning Tai Chi sword is an excellent way to advance their skills. Tai Chi sword is the next level up from the Tai Chi form. It is a bit more difficult. After all, you’re holding a sword, and that requires both more strength and better balance. In addition, this form has more Crane stances and a few other moves that require balance. Those are often the most fun moves too!

Many Tai Chi sword forms are quite simple. Some are really just empty hand techniques from the Tai Chi form done using a sword in your hand. These styles of Tai Chi Sword forms are more like Qi Gong than a traditional Chinese martial arts sword routine. But they are easy to learn and provide good exercise.

The Tai Chi sword form you’ll learn in our class is from the Chen Pan Ling lineage of Tai Chi Chuan. Chen Pan Ling was famous as the most knowledgeable person in Taiwan regarding the internal martial arts of Tai Chi Chuan, Xing Yi Quan and Ba Gua Zhang.

This form contains one beautiful traditional Chinese sword technique after another and is performed smoothly and fluidly like Tai Chi. It is about 44 moves long and there are few repeated postures making it interesting and diverse to practice.

This is the most beautiful Tai Chi sword form I have learned and I really enjoy practicing and sharing it!

Start today! You’ll love it!

TAI CHI SWORD CLASS TIMES

San Rafael Tai Chi Chuan Classes is 7:30 – 8:00 PM every Monday and Wednesday, in the Auditorium, San Rafael Community Center, 618 B Street, San Rafael, CA 94901.

Study with Sifu Jensen privately call: 415-455-9467, or email: Practice@10000Victories.com

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Tai Chi Push Hands

Tai Chi Push Hands, or Tui Shou, is the most distinctive and well known partner exercises of Tai Chi. Tui Shou is translated as both “pushing hands” the literal translation, and either “sensing hands”or “listening hands” as a more descriptive translation. The game of push hands is to off balance your partner using no more than 4 ounces of pressure. Along the way a diverse series practice exercises are used to develop the fundamental skills required to play the game of Tui Shou well. Push Hands is safe fun game and partner exercise to deepen your understanding and skill in Tai Chi Chuan.

Push Hands focuses on learning how to use the four most important techniques of Tai Chi the Ward Off, Roll Back, Push, and Press. These four moves are performed more than any others in the longer and older Tai Chi Forms.

Four Main Techniques Of Tai Chi Push Hands

Ward Off is the simplest and most fundamental defensive movement. Your raise your arm to “Ward Off” the opponents blow. This technique is also called Peng in Mandarin and represents expanding energy. The energy that floats a boat or inflates a ball. If the structure and body alignment of your Ward Off is correct it will in fact have great strength without excessive tension. Everyone learns how to correctly do Ward Off so they can effectively use it for self defense. We do make sure your ward off is strong and you will know it is from personal experience in practice. Learning the feeling of “Peng” in push hands changes how you perform every movement in the Tai Chi Form because all of the movements in Tai Chi are should contain this feeling to create the shape and fill the energy of each posture.

Roll Back is the other defensive movement in Tai Chi. Roll Back in its most fundamental essence is a retreating and deflecting movement using primarily forearm rotation and contact. Roll Back is also a method to attack the elbow joint called “Split The Elbow”. It is a powerful self defense tool that is non lethal. In push Hands you learn how to safely practice this technique with your partner and also how to defend against it, and evade it.

Press is a short range strike that can be used to Off Balance your partner without using force. Press is often done as a counter to Roll Back. Press is an excellent movement to learn how to evade and counter when your partner or opponent is in very close range.

Push is the offensive technique in Push Hands and is used to off balance or uproot the opponent. The Push can also be viewed as a double pal strike to the opponents chest. In push hands the goal is to use no more than four ounces of pressure and still launch your partner flying many feet to the rear. An expert push is light as feather, yet propels the other a long ways. People rarely fall during these exercises because everyone is being careful and practicing being aware. A good strong push actually a very effective self defense technique. If you really knock the opponent down or into obstacles and or others you can end the fight or sadly make your escape without legal consequences. More than one of my students has used the humble push to defend themselves or others in real situations.

Push Hands or Tui Shou Benefits

Balance – Tui Shou practice incredibly improves your balance immediately. Without feedback it is easy to fool oneself into thinking their balance is better than it is. With your partner constantly training you in how to maintain your balance you balance gets fantastic quickly. In Tai Chi we like to learn rooting and grounding. These terms describe becoming impossible to push like a huge tree rooted in the earth or mountain. You learn these skills by perfecting your leg and knee alignment and learning how to sink your hips and move with a flexible responsive waist. These skills really improve your solo form and help you learn how to “Sink Your Qi”.

Relaxation – In push hands, if your body is tense you are stiff, brittle, and easy off balanced. In practice you’ll loosen up and relax quickly to avoid being constantly off balance. It is a really fun game and every one has a great time!

Understanding – Most people find Tai Chi Push Hands sets off a long series of epiphanies, and insights into the nature of Tai Chi and the Tai Chi Form

We practice the following exercises: Call for more info.

Single Push Hands

Double Push Hands

Single Push Hands moving steps

Double Push Hands moving steps

Many sensitivity drills and variations on single push hands skills from Xing Yi Quan and Ba Gua Zhang as well as classical Tai Chi Push Hands

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You Can Learn Tai Chi Push Hands, or Tui Shou Class

Tai Chi Push Hands is open to all Tai Chi friends regardless of style or past experience. You do not need to learn the Yang Family Long Form that I teach before joining this class. If you know another Tia Chi Form that is terrific. However, even if you don’t know any Tia Chi and practice other martial arts you are welcome to learn Push Hands with us and have a great time. Students of Xing Yi Quan and Ba Gua Zhang also find these exercises extremely helpful to improving their mastery of those arts. This is particularly true because of my own experience learning Xing Yi Quan and Ba Gua Zhang and my inclusion of incredibly complimentary exercises form those disciplines into this class.

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