Variable Easy (Sun Style) Tai Chi for Health

A new simplified system of variable length Tai Chi exercise for health

About Us

 

 

Our Email     sunsdragon@homail.com

 

 

 

 

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We are a school of Sun Style Taijiquan in South Wales UK teaching the Classical Sun Style of Tai Chi (Taijiquan). We are afilliated to the Sun Style Tai Chi Association UK headed by Mr David Martin of Leicester who learned the art in China as the disciple of the late Sun Jianyun, the daughter of Sun Style founder, Sun Lutang. Mr Martin still travels regularly to China with his Chinese wife Sue Ying Martin to study Sun Style with Sun family members.

We teach mainly Classical Sun Style Taiji Quan but also to a lesser extent Sun’s other internal arts Bagua Zhang and Xing Yi Quan.

The Principle instructor of the school, Mr John Jones, due to his interest in Sun Style Tai Chi, attended the first UK “Tai Chi for arthritis” course held in Oxford England and an advanced instructors course held in Stockport two years later. After such week end courses Dr Lam awarded John licences to teach his programme, (valid only for two years each time.)

The Tai Chi for arthritis programme was developed in Australia as an ideal exercise system for people suffering from osteo-arthritis. There is normally  no cure except joint replacement, but unless the muscles around an affected joint are kept in good order the arthritis will get worse. Thus exercise is important but the wrong kind of exercise will do more harm than good. Dr Lam said that although most Tai Chi exercise is good, Sun Style Tai Chi is the best for people with knee or hip  joint problems because of the more upright posture and the unique shorter stepping action of the style.

To train a Sun Style instructor to a level such that they are able to teach the 97 movements of the classical routine, or the 73 movements of the popular more athletic competition routine, takes from two to ten years. Experienced Sun Style teachers are very rare. How then could the arthritis sufferers in Australia be provided with all the Sun Style instructors they needed?   The answer was simply to train many new instructors to teach just six Sun Style movements at a one weekend course to enable them to teach just six movements to sufferers. The six movements were selected from the 73 movements of the competition routine and the Sun Style “Tai Chi for Arthritis” programme was born. Later six other movements were added as it spread world wide as a famous therapy for arthritis sufferers.

Inspired by the ability of the TCA programme to “fast track” train new instructors to teach movements from the 73 competition style, John decided to produce his own simplified fast track system but based on movements selected from the classical 97 sequence Sun Style and with a new and novel variable length structure. This system is now called “Variable Easy Tai Chi for Health” VETCH.

This new programme consists of five modules, each one consisting of half a dozen or so movements selected from the classical 97 Sun Style routine. Modules are taught one at a time. Beginners can start any time attending our classes as it does not matter which short module is being taught on that day.

Normally other Tai Chi groups may have to have special courses for beginners as they cannot hope that raw beginners can fit in to a class of experienced pupils who are performing long standard routines. A beginner at these other groups may have thus to wait for a beginners course to be organized or attend a different class from more experienced students.

 

We would welcome those wishing to be trained to start teaching our new VETCH programme. Please refer to our instructors training scheme page.

 

 

 

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To contact us:

Sun Jianyun

 

Daughter of Sun Lutang