Master Chu King Hung
official Yang family No.3 disciple
Most people associate T'ai Chi with the graceful, slow motion movements of Yang family T'ai Chi Ch'uan (Pinyin: taijiquan), one of the 5 main styles*. The art is much more than just beautiful movement.
T'ai Chi is an ancient Chinese exercise system that has achieved a world-wide reputation as an effective means to relax your mind and body. Originally it was developed as a sophisticated martial art aimed at overcoming advantages of size, strength and speed in combat.
If practised correctly, the art has remarkable benefits, including:
This may sound a lot. It is - so, not surprisingly, you need a competent teacher trained in the authentic Yang style.
*An information package on the history and complete art of Yang style T'ai Chi is available upon request or at the link above.
This school teaches the principles of the art as taught by official Yang family disciples. Teachers of many versions of "popular" T'ai Chi may not have received this training, which is at the heart of the classic Yang T'ai Chi form.
A maxim of Yang style taiji is that the movements and attitudes must be naturally good for BOTH health and self-defence technique - they mutually support each other.
To gain the full benefits of T'ai Chi it needs to be taught properly and accurately. This involves grounding the art in its martial principles. To get the full health and other benefits your training needs to be based on these principles, even if you don't wish to follow up the martial art side.
Both the martial aspects of the discipline and the health benefits derive from structural principles that open up internal energy (qi) flow. The nature of the relaxation-in-posture necessary for this is widely misunderstood, as members of the Yang family to this day are continuously pointing out.
If the postures are not taught properly and accurately the health benefits and effectiveness that you gain is only 10-20% of what the art can bestow. We offer the necessary quality instruction.
Taiji is a comprehensive art which includes
the following in its program. We teach all aspects.
T'ai chi is a soft, gentle art but it's not easy - it's challenging. Like anything worthwhile its skills require time, patience and discipline to develop. These in themselves are important emotional by-products/skills of the training. The standing QiGong posture, for example, is quite demanding, and yet requires relaxation. The relaxation once acquired is much deeper than that obtained from simply lying on a couch, because it has a mental component.This relaxation-in-structure (the Chinese word is song) is much deeper, and very different from, being floppy or collapsing, as popular ideas of relaxing can imply. The art is open to people of all ages, but does require a degree of able-bodiedness (please ring and discuss if unsure).
Roger Bastick has over 20 years experience in these arts. He trained for a decade (1980-1995) under master Chu King Hung, the no. 3 disciple of the Yang family, in London (UK). During this comprehensive training, he appeared in two major public demonstrations of the art with Master Chu and instructed for him in the catchup classes. He maintains contact with Master John Ding, official 6th generation Yang family disciple.
From 1980-1983, Roger taught T'ai Chi at the Camden Institute of Adult Education and ran work-shops for the PE Institute. He also taught privately in London.
Prior to this, from 1976-1979, he studied Taoism, Zen Buddhism, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Hsin I Ch'uan, Ba Gua Chang and Traditional Chinese Medicine under Master Liu Hsiu-chi in London, UK. Roger has extensive experience in teaching Eastern philosophy, particularly Taoism and Buddhism, at university level in both the UK and Australia, during an academic career spanning this period in the environmental field. Roger also has proven ability to clearly communicate complex and comprehensive instructions, and he inspires enthusiasm through his love of what he teaches.
Classes are held , twice per week Classes are held at St. Ursula's School dance studio saturdays 3-5pm and Wednesdays in the Chape 7-8:45pm (see map) . You enrol in one class as your main class, but can attend more than one each week.
"I would like to enter into a contract with each student guaranteeing a degree of commitment to studying this valuable and sophisticated art seriously, and for them to behave politely, ethically and with a considerate attitude to both the teacher and other students. In return I guarantee clear instruction for the development of these skills in the student (based on the program overleaf) carried out in a courteous & ethical manner."
R. L. Bastick
Contact:
Roger Bastick
Ph: 0410608791
www.fwbo.org.au/toowoomba
