YOUTH PROGRAM
青少年课程
WHY?
Promote Physical Development
Tai Chi practice for teenagers primarily focuses on stretching and strengthening bones. On one hand, it helps promote bone density, muscle strength, and ligament flexibility, thereby establishing a solid physical foundation. On the other hand, it enhances overall physical fitness, boosts immunity, reduces the likelihood of illness, and minimizes the negative impact on physical development, thereby promoting healthy growth.
Establish Health Foundation
Tai Chi follows natural laws, emphasizing harmony with nature. It helps loosen joints, enhance organ function, and improve the circulatory system's metabolism. Moreover, it lays a foundation for teenagers' athletic abilities, enhances flexibility and responsiveness, improves learning capabilities, and ensures robust physical and mental health.
DIVERSITY
Cultural Immersion
Diversified Background
BODY
Strong Bones & Muscles
Boosted Immunity
MIND
Relieve Stress
Positive & Calm
CHARACTER
Upright & Confident
Perseverance
FOCUS
Concentrated
Better Self-Control
Alleviate Mental Stress
Learning Tai Chi requires relaxation, including physical, respiratory, and mental relaxation. Given the academic stress faced by teenagers, practicing Tai Chi can help relieve stress, cultivate a positive mindset, and enhance learning efficiency.
Build Confidence
Tai Chi cultivates both literary and martial virtues, aiming to refine character and nurture morality. Through Tai Chi practice, teenagers can develop a balanced and upright character, achieve excellence in both academic and martial pursuits, and build confidence, fostering a calm and composed demeanor and the ability to handle situations with ease.
Enhances Concentration
Tai Chi training starts with standing meditation, emphasizing stillness and inner focus. It encourages individuals to discard distractions and maintain mental composure, enhancing concentration. Through push hands exercises, practitioners learn to respond to opponents' movements with calmness and agility, thus improving attention, perception, and self-control, leading to increased wisdom through concentration.
Recommended Classes
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BA DUAN JIN 八段锦
· Most Popular
· Beginner Friendly
· Improve Overall Health & Flexibility
The Baduanjin qigong (八段锦) also known as Eight-Section Brocades is one of the most common forms of Chinese Qigong used as exercise. It is a traditional Chinese exercise that combines eight movements, breathing, meditation, and awareness to improve health. The exercises are said to promote a silken quality to the body and its energy, and are primarily a form of medical qigong.
24-FORM TAI CHI
二十四式杨氏太极拳
· Yang Style
· Beginner Friendly
· Slow, Continuous, Soft
Yang style is the most popular and widely practiced style of tai chi in the world today. It is characterized by slow, continuous, soft, and circular movements in a flowing form.
The creators truncated the traditional family style tai chi forms to 24 postures; taking about six minutes to perform and to give the beginner an introduction to the essential elements of tai chi, yet retain the traditional flavor of traditional longer hand forms.
18-FORM TAI CHI
十八式陈氏太极拳
· Chen Style
· Beginner & Intermediate
· Slow & Fast, Bursts of Power
Chen-style tai chi is a Northern Chinese martial art and the oldest tai chi form that originated around 1670 and is characterized by silk reeling, alternating fast and slow motions, and bursts of power.
t's based on Qigong and martial art techniques from thousands of years ago, and features contrasting and complimentary movements, such as slow and soft versus fast and hard. Chen-style tai chi also contains explosive power and low stances.
TAI CHI WEAPON 太极器械
· Yang, Chen, Wudang
· Intermediate & Advanced
· Tai Chi Fan, Sword, Broadsword
Tai chi weapons forms are an incredibly beautiful, fun, and are a way to practice some of the core principles of tai chi. Each tai chi weapon teaches a different way to balance, generate force, move, and hold your posture, all of which translate back into improving your open-hand form.
They are usually introduced after progress has been made in the open-hand form. While you do not have to know an open-hand form to begin a weapon form, knowledge from the open-hand form speaks directly to the movements of all the weapons.
BAGUA 八卦掌
· Low Impact
· Circular Walking
· Constant Movement & Change
Baguazhang is regarded as the most circular and spiraling system of Chinese martial arts. Its defining trait is perpetual movement and adaptability, enabling practitioners to engage in combat while constantly shifting positions.
The standout aspect of Baguazhang training is circle walking, maintaining static postures while moving and executing various martial techniques when changing directions along the circle. Over time, Baguazhang has evolved into a comprehensive martial system encompassing a wide range of techniques, including kicks, strikes, throws, grappling, and proficiency with various weapons.
XINGYI 形意拳
· Explosive Power
· Linear Movement
· Constant Movement & Change
Xingyi quan is commonly referred to as Mind Form or Mind Intention boxing. The name illustrates that the form the body takes is an external manifestation of the internal state of mind. The mind visualizes a shape and the body takes that shape.
The basic practice of xingyi quan consists of standing meditation and the linear repetition of five fist techniques called the five element fists - metal, water, wood, fire, and earth. Xingyi quan also encompasses twelve animal forms and various weapon forms. Its primary training method involves holding a standing meditation posture called San Ti Shi, which enhances strength, concentration, and chi/qi cultivation.
Interested in Other Competition Routines?
40-Form Yang, 42-Form, 56-From Chen can be requested based on needs