John Hine is a Chinese Internal Martial Arts Master who has been training for over 45 years, and runs one of the longest established and successful chain of Tai Chi schools in the UK.
Tonight we added on to the 6th circle in our Bagua class and covered the moves:
•   White Snake Spits Out the Mushroom (one legged stance)
•   Fierce Tiger Leaves the Cage
•   Angry Tiger Puts Out its Claw
These are interesting moves which continue the two-fingered hand posture style.
At the end of the Bagua lesson we did some Pile Standing / Chi Kung exercises which are known as Neijia or 'Internal Family' Pile Standing / Chi Kung exercises.
The position of the body is with the back straight, and the chin tucked under. The tongue should touch the roof of the mouth.
The hips should be tucked under with the feet one shoulder width apart. The knees are to be bent so as to obscure the view of the toes.
The hands should 'embrace the ball' with elbows dropped and the hands about heart-height.
Under the armpits you should imagine a ball between them the size of an orange in order to help to practice not collapse them - if you block the Chi then the practice is pointless.
