Lecture09/04 Lecture Guiding Principle

《Lecture Guiding Principle》
1 Lecture once a month, the day schedule is ：8.00~~8.30 Practise Taichi Chuan
8.30~~8.45 1st Speaker on Practice
8.45~~9.00 2nd Speaker on Theory
9.00~~9.15 Free Q&A and Exchange of Views
9.15~~9.30 Evaluator Speaks
2 Purpose of the Lecture is:，a) Promote reading & thinking on Taichi Theory
b) Promote writing ability
c) Promote speaking ability
d) Promote mutual learning and upgrading
3 All shixiong/shijie will be designated to be responsible for one topic as listed below
4 Each topic is divided into 2 parts: 1) on practice, 2) on theory based on Master Wu’s book
5 Designated shixiong/shijie will undertake reading and thinking on their respective topics
6 After the speeches, all students are encouraged to raise questions and exchange views freely
7 Designated shixiong/shijie will prepare their speeches in the form of texts to be posted on the notice board in the Society premises
8 Prepared texts will be put onto our websites: //sbntaiji.blogspot.comChinese), //nstaichi.blogspot.com(English)
9 An evaluator assigned in every lecture. He chairs the meeting and makes overall evaluation after the proceedings. Evaluations should be more on praising than criticism. The criteria are:
1 Clarity 20%
2 Raise interest 15%
3 Fluency 15%
4 Integrate with practice 15%
Total 100%






The Topics

1 Taichi Chuan is the correction of errors
2 Taichi Chuan stresses “a little bit”
3 Integration of the Heaven and the Human Being
4 One movement and all moves
5 The basic 8 principles of Taichi Chuan
6 Taichi Chuan is about the whole body being hands and yet hands are no hands
7 The minuscule movement of Dao
8 Taichi Chuan is health-building, self-defense and cultivation
9 Taichi Chuan is an art of self-questioning, questioning what?
10 Internal activation first then comes external movements
11 The major criteria of body movement of Tacihi Chuan
12 Taichi Chuan stresses the root at the foot and manifested at the hands