NZ National T'ai Chi Ch'uan Association

Festival of Tai Chi 2011

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The Festival of Tai Chi 2011 will be held on Saturday the 12th November at the Cashmere Club, 50 Colombo Street. Registration will start at 8:45 am. There will be a $5 charge per person.

This year’s event will be condensed from 9am until 1pm. Please note there will be no break for lunch therefore people will need to organize their own lunches this year. If you leave the venue you will be able to get back in. This is to allow the program to flow better.

The program will feature a mixture of Tai Chi and Qi Gong demonstrations and the dynamics will be different from previous years. As in the past there will be opportunities for interaction and participation.

On the program this year will be Dave Thew, Principal Instructor of Phoenix Tai Chi, member of the NZ Wushu team and gold medalist at the Nationals, Oceania, Australasian and World Championships.

Terry Young is the New Zealand Instructor for the Chen Style Taijiquan Academy of Melbourne and is based in Wellington He will demonstrate aspects of Chen Style, and he will be joined by Mercedes Godinet also from Wellington. These two are always popular with the crowd.

Gabrielle Euteneur, Senior Instructor of Tao Motion, studies the Mantak Chia form of universal healing. This is her first appearance at the Festival and she will demonstrate a sword form.

Vanessa Lukes will demonstrate the aspects of Zhineng Qi Gong. This is her first appearance at the Festival.

Trevor Johnson from Timaru as well as local practitioners, Mike Penter, Principal of Red Dragon Taijiquan, Hazel Thompson, Trevor Quirk, Loo Chi Hu, and Geraldine Parkes will also contribute towards the program.

For more information please contact the Secretary, Carolyn Veitch.

NEW ZEALAND WORLD TAI CHI QIGONG EVENTS.

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Official events being organized by the NZ National Tái Chi Ch’uan Association
for 2011 are at the following venues.

AUCKLAND

Tamaki College Community Recreation Centre
Elstree Avenue, Glen Innes, Auckland

WELLINGTON

Onslow College, Burma Road, Johnsonville

CHRISTCHURCH

Barrington Park, Barrington Street, South Christchurch

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

The Annual General Meeting of the Christchurch Branch of the Association
will be held at 6pm on 2 May 2011 at the residence of Loo Chi Hu QSM at
28 Cross Street, Phillipstown. Please bring a plate if you intend to attend.

Loo-Chi Hu, his life and times

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LOO-CHI - Asia Downunder New Zealand

Bharat Jamandas – Senior Reporter from Asia Downunder has filmed Loo-Chi Hu, his life and times to be shown on:
Sunday 27th March 2011 TV1 @ 11am.

This was following Robin Greenberg's New Zealand International Film Festival Movie - the very successful "The Free China Junk". As part of the Film Festival's publicity, Bharat reviewed Robin's beautiful movie and took great interest in the story of Loo-Chi. The movie uncovered the remarkable adventure of five young fishermen who set off from Taiwan in 1955 intending to cross the Pacific in an old Junk. Their plan being to sail to San Franciso, hauling the boat across the US to take part in a trans-Atlantic yacht race - none of them having had any experience of junks or the open sea!! The sixth junk-mate, the young American Vice-Consul in Taipei, filmed the journey.

Robin's earlier film about Loo-Chi, "HULOO", premiered at the NZ International Film Festival 2008.

During September of 2010 Bharat visited Christchurch filming Loo-Chi, his daughter Lih-Lan, and two grandchildren Jessie and Holly here at his home and at the Barracks in Christchurch. Her family were here on sabbatical from Texas, USA.

It will be a beautiful little film of Loo-Chi at his home in Phillipstown, Christchurch, New Zealand, with his family; sharing with us his life as a Tai Chi Master and his seafaring days on the high seas.

Geraldine C Parkes
Committee Member

The Festival of Tai Chi 2010

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The Festival of Tai Chi 2010 will be held on the 27th November at the Cashmere Club, 50 Colombo Street from 9 am – 3 pm. Registration will start at 8:45am.

The dynamics will be very different for this years event as we are drawing on more local practitioners this year. There will be opportunities to interact with the forms presented and find out about local T'ai Chi Ch'uan groups.

Our star performer will be Christchurch's Dave Thew who is currently in China for the 4th World Traditional Wushu Championships and will compete in the Oceania Wushu Tournament in Sydney after that.

Other well established Christchurch Instructors include Loo Chi Hu QSM, Dr Denis Walker as well as Practitioners on the Association.

Representing the branches of the Association from Auckland, David Wong, and from Wellington Terry Young will also demonstrate in the program.

We welcome for the first time at this Festival Peter Dawson from Greymouth and welcome back Trevor Johnston from Timaru.

For further information please contact

The Secretary
164 Condell Avenue
Christchurch 8053

The Festival of Tai Chi 2009

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The Festival of Tai Chi 2009 will take place on Saturday the 21st November at the Cashmere Club.

The doors will be open at 8:45am to register and meet with other enthusiasts. There is a $5 door fee.

The program will start approximately 9:15pm with the traditional Yang long form led by Loo Chi Hu QSM who is the father of Tai Chi in Christchurch.

This year Tai Chi Instructors, Orlando Garcia Morales and Diana Lau will represent Auckland. Terry Young and Mercedes Godinez will be coming from Wellington, all who have international experience in training or competition.

The Nelson School of Tai Chi led by Cristine Clements will again travel south to be part of our program.

Local Practitioners Dave Thew, Dr Denis Walker, Sandy Jiang and Jean Whalley will also present demonstrations. There will be plenty of opportunity to participate in the forms being presented and also talk to Instructors at various times of the day.

There are plenty of places close by to buy your lunch or you can order from the in house menu at the restaurant on site.

For more information contact Mike Penter on Retnep AT xtra.co DOT nz or use this email form letter.

Auckland Event Schedule for WTCQD

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"One World ... ... One Breath"

Details of WTCQD in Auckland as follows:

Programme

	Public Demonstrations		Chinese Health Qigong Seminar
Date	Saturday, 25 April 2009	Date	Sunday, 26 April 2009
Venue	Tamaki College Community Recreation Centre	Venue	Marcellin College Gym
	Elstree Ave		617 Mt Albert Rd
	Glen Innes		Royal Oak
	Auckland		Auckland

Time	1.30 pm - 4.30 pm	Time	9.00 am - 1.00 pm
Admission	Free admission	Admission	$60.00

WORLD TAI CHI & QIGONG DAY 2009

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"One World ... ... One Breath"

A relay of special events to celebrate World Tai Chi and Qigong Day (WTCQD) will begin in New Zealand and end 24 hours later in Hawaii.

WTCQD is officially recognized by the United Nations World Health Organization and aims to promote and educate the world to the benefits of practising Tai Chi and Qigong.

Since 2002, at 10.00am local time, Tai Chi and Qigong enthusiasts in New Zealand have had the honour of kick-starting WTCQD for the rest of the world and to initiate a "healing wave of energy" to encircle the globe.

This year WTCQD will be held on Saturday, 25th April and in observance of Anzac Day the usual large public events will take place in the afternoon instead.

However, New Zealand at the prescribed time of 10.00am will still kick-start WTCQD. Individuals and small groups of practitioners will gather to perform Tai Chi and Qigong privately with the hope that the new "healing wave of energy" they initiate for the world in 2009, will also carry the Spirit of Anzac - for peace, freedom, unity, love of life.

In Auckland, the celebration of WTCQD will for the first time take place over two days. On Saturday afternoon the public demonstrations will include mass displays of Tai Chi and Qigong performed by combined clubs and schools. A special seminar is planned for Sunday to teach the Ba Duan Jin Qigong routine. This simple to learn, evidence-based health Qigong from China is currently being promoted world-wide.

Research have shown that the traditional Chinese health technologies of Tai Chi and Qigong can reduce anxiety, depression, and chronic pain conditions. They can boost the immune system, improve respiratory function, burn calories, dramatically improve balance, improve cardiovascular benefit, provide powerful stress management tools, and slow aspects of the aging process.

WTCQD in New Zealand is organized by the New Zealand National Tai Chi Chuan Association Inc.

Further information is available at the websites:
www.worldtaichiday-akl.org
www.worldtaichiday.org

Contacts:

Diana Lau	Ph: 638 5308, 021-182 4963	Email Diana Lau
Orlando Garcia	Ph: 636 1329, 021-560 200	Email Orlando Garcia
David Wong	Ph: 625 5197, 027-475 4162	Email David Wong

WTCQD in Auckland is sponsored by SPORT AUCKLAND and ASIA NEW ZEALAND FOUNDATION

2nd International Taijiquan Invitational Tournament

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Dear New Zealand Kung-Fu Wushu Federation Members and Friends.

The ‘Hong Kong Wushu Union Organizing Committee of the upcoming 2nd International Taijiquan Invitational Tournament cum 1st International Taiji Push Hands Championships is seeking participation.

Please advise a.s.a.p. if anyone is interested in attending this event, which is scheduled between 28th February to 1st March, 2009 in Hong Kong. For further information please visit http://www.hkwushuu.com.hk.

The New Zealand Kung-Fu Wushu Federation is happy to act as a central coordination point for those wishing to attend. Please email me at president AT wushu DOT org DOT nz if you are interested.

Yours in wushu,
Glen Keith

RED DRAGON TAI CHI

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Mike Penter started up a Sunday 10 o'clock class in June 2008 to fill the void created when Loo Chi Hu resigned from public teaching at the end of 2006.

Mike reports that this has been successful and a few of his students attend regularly but wishes to point out the opportunity exits to anyone who is proficient at the Yang style long form.

A few Sundays ago we played the form in Somerfield Park as the conditions were right.

If you think this might suit you, just turn up at the Somerfield Community Hall, in Studholme Street, Somerfield, Christchurch.

The Festival of Tai Chi.

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The Festival of Tai Chi is organised by the New Zealand National T’ai Chi Ch’uan Association Incorporated.

It is an annual event, the purpose of which, is to showcase all aspects of Tai Chi and Qi gong to the public and to provide opportunities for further learning and networking.

The Festival takes place on the last Saturday of November in Christchurch, and evolved with the establishment of the Association in 1988 as part of its aims to promote Tai Chi as an exercise for health and wellbeing. Over that time its name has changed also to reflect the mood of the time. It has been the Tai Chi workshops. The Tai Chi Gathering and is now the Festival of Tai Chi.

It brings together Tai Chi and Qi gong teachers and practitioners from all over New Zealand and occasionally attracts teachers from overseas. It also presents an opportunity to share knowledge and to see first hand the many different facets of these ancient Chinese art forms played out over a six hour window of time. The dynamics change each year as well as new practitoners are woven into the mix.

For further information please contact the Secretary.New Zealand National T’ai Chi Ch’uan Association Incorporated.164 Condell Avenue, Papanui, Christchurch 8053

Festival of Tai Chi 2008

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The Association extends a warm welcome to its annual Festival of Tai Chi.

This will be held on 22 November 2008, at the Cashmere Club, Colombo Street, Christchurch.

Doors open 9am sharp, entry fee is $5, and the day finishes at 3pm.

A limited number of lunches are available for purchase at the club, price to be arranged.

We have a great programme, with many tai chi practitioners from all over New Zealand showcasing several different types of tai chi. There will be several opportunities for audience participation.

Membership of the Association is not required, all are welcome.

See you there!

About the Association

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New Zealand National T’ai Chi Ch’uan Association Incorporated

The New Zealand National T’ai Chi Ch’uan Association extends a welcome to any practitioners of Tai Chi and Qi gong or interested parties.

The Association is a non profit organisation whose aim it is to promote T’ai Chi and any arts affiliated with it. All work contributing to its running is done on a voluntary basis.

The Association was established in 1988 and is based out of Christchurch, New Zealand with a sub branch in Auckland.

It was set up by students of Loo Chi Hu QSM and has established connections with various groups throughout New Zealand since its inception. In 1991 the Association became affiliated with the T’ai Chi Society in Taiwan.

Mr Hu is the patron of the Association but does not recognise himself or the Association as being a regulatory body for the practice of T’ai Chi Ch’uan.

The Association recommends anyone who is interested in having their level of skill appraised to approach the New Zealand Kung-Fu Wu Shu Federation or the Beijing Institute of Physical Education.

The main aim of the Association is to create the sharing of ideas and connections between individual practitioners and groups who are passionate about T’ai Chi.

Ways in which the Association has endeavoured to achieve this is by publishing a quarterly newsletter (comprising of appropriate articles from practitioners and relevant free advertising) and by holding workshops. An annual workshop has been held in Christchurch since 1988. The Association also has educational videos and DVDs available for sale.

More recently the Association has been working with groups involved in the health sector e.g. the Accident Compensation Corporation, New Zealand Presbyterian Support for Falls Prevention, the Osteoporosis Society and Aged Concern as well as maintaining a register of current T’ai Chi instructors throughout New Zealand.

Membership is open to anyone. The annual subscription is $10 which helps cover the cost of all the Association’s activities.

For more information please contact the Association at Retnep@xtra.co.nz or you can write to PO Box 10203, Phillipstown, Christchurch.