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Upcoming Events Saturday, April 5th 11 am - 5 pm and Sunday, April 6th, 9am competitors, 10am spectators | TCUGB Festival of Chinese Internal Arts (Saturday) and 2008 British Open Championships (Sunday) Blackbird Leys Leisure Centre, Pegasus Road, Oxford Mob 07721 867682 | Last Sunday in June 2008 and every year 2.30pm | National Tai Chi Day - "Tai Chi in the Park" On the grass above the lake at Roundhay Park, Leeds. (Near the Victorian fountain) | | 2008 Date to follow | Tai Chi Caledonia Stirling, Scotland www.taichicaledonia.com 0141 810 3482 Organised by Bob Lowey |
NEWS | CONGRATULATIONS! TOM MARK MIKE
Three of our blokes went down to the Chinese Internal Arts Championship in Nottingham on Sunday (11.3.07) and came back with a handful of medals.
Congratulations to Mark Fahy and Tom Hadfield who, on their first venture into the realm of competition, each won a bronze medal for fixed step pushing hands and a silver in the moving step, and to Mike Abosh who also won a bronze for the fixed step and took the gold in the moving step to add to his already substantial previous collection! Well done chaps! FURTHER CONGRATULATIONS!!! Well done to Mark Fahy for battling on bravely at the British Open Championships on Sunday (1st April) despite receiving a nasty black eye, from a close encounter with an elbow, in the first bout. And congratulations once again to Mike Abosh who received another gold medal for pushing hands and was also presented with a special sword by the Chinese contingent for his services to the Martial Art over the years! We would also like to thank Dan Docherty for organising these events every year, providing a valuable opportunity for people to test their skills, if they wish to, at national and international level. MORE CONGRATULATIONS! This time to Ben Morris, who won the lightweight event in the ground grappling tournament organised by the University of Leeds on 21st April. Ben is the club captain of the Tai Chi Hsing Yi Society* at Leeds University and is experienced in Judo as well as Chinese Internal Martial Arts. Well done Ben! (*The Tai Chi Hsing Yi Society at the University of Leeds was founded by Master Zhu Guang in 1989. Since Master Zhu left this country the classes have been taught by Gaynel Hamilton, Peter Hicks, Michael Stone and now Colin Hamilton) Well done Mike and Ben! (Again!) Our congratulations to Mike Abosch who recently won another two gold medals in the BCCMA British Open Championships, in moving and fixed step pushing hands and in San Shou, and to Ben Morris who achieved a gold medal in moving step push hands and a silver in fixed step at the inter-university martial arts championship in Manchester. | TAI CHI IN THE RAIN 
Our thanks to all those brave souls who showed up at Roundhay Park amid a traditional British summer downpour to celebrate National Tai Chi Day by doing some excellent, if somewhat soggy, Tai Chi. We had a good laugh and managed to perform slightly slithery versions of the Cheng Man Ching form (twice), followed by the master form, the family form and the 48 step, while Colin demonstrated the umbrella form (stationary version) followed by the six healing sounds. Our dazzling demonstration was witnessed by at least two people walking dogs, which may have raised the public profile of our martial art very slightly. Happily, we didn't get quite so many funny looks from onlookers as in previous years and we didn't share the fate of the poor soul down south who apparently got banned from doing Bagua on a British beach because local people, with limited martial arts knowledge, reported him for practicing witchcraft!! The moral of this tale is, if you want to practice martial arts in the open air, don't do anything in an overtly circular manner, take care not to draw Tai Chi symbols in the sand, if you want to practice the stick form, make sure it's not a broomstick you're using, and don't forget to keep all your clothes on!
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