Variable Easy (Sun Style) Tai Chi for Health

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

Instructor Training

When there is a will, there is a way.

If you have a desire to teach Tai Chi for the health of the people in your locality to benefit from the exercise and social contact, then we can provide the way for you to do it.

It takes many years to train a person in one of the classical styles of Tai Chi long routines which makes it difficult for a person wishing to become an instructor to start a class. This is particularly so if no suitable training facility is within easy traveling distance. Even if a suitable local instructor is available the existing instructor may not wish to train pupils to a standard that they can set up alternative local classes charging competitively lower practice fees.

We can provide a way forward. Firstly we run a not-for-profit  organisation with low fees and have no fear of financial competition from other new instructors. Secondly we want to see the spread of the rare Sun Style so that more people can benefit from the healthy exercise. Lastly we have devised a new fast-track course for people wishing to teach Sun Style Tai Chi, enabling them to start teaching very quickly.

It takes many years to train a new instructor to begin teaching the full classical Sun Style of Tai Chi with its 97 sequence of movements. However we believe that to make a quick start an instructor can start by learning a small module of just half a dozen movements well enough to then teach those few movements.  They can  then open a class of their own to do just that. Of course such a new instructor could not compare with one trained for many years and capable of teaching the full classical sequence.

Soon the pupils of such a class would want to learn more movements. Thus our course consists of five such modules so that the new instructor would be able to add more techniques until they were teaching all five modules. A teaching license is awarded for each of the five modules. All five of the modules together constitute a considerable content sufficient to provide long term interest to pupils.

There is at this time no nationally recognised qualification for teaching Tai Chi in the UK and any one can start teaching here. However anyone teaching anything these days would be foolish to do so without the cover of professional indemnity insurance. The only real value of a license is if it enables PI insurance to be obtained. Whilst our training to obtain one of our licenses is low cost as we are a non-profit organisation, PI insurance from an insurance provider is of necessity always reasonably expensive.

We do not require you to attend  every two or three years to update your license to teach a module, as no changes are planned to the modules. Your license remains valid as long as you stay in contact with us by joining and remaining in our VETCH Association. We can then contact you and send you updated information from time to time. Membership of the Association may require a small annual charge to cover postage costs etc. Also continued membership will require certain standards to be maintained such as you maintaining a current first aid qualification and PI insurance. Of course this only applies to instructors.

It is not essential, but it is hoped that VETCH instructors, who desire to do so, would eventually go on to learn the full 97 sequence of classical Sun Style Tai Chi. It will be fairly easy to do that as individual movements will already be well known.

UK instructors  could then be examined performing the 97 sequence by Mr David Martin, and could become recognised by him as instructors of his classical Sun Style Association and thus qualified by him to teach the full classical Sun Style.

 

 

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Sun Jianyun giving Sun Style Tai Chi instruction to Mr Dave Martin