Sabre Classes Dates

I have booked the halls for our short course of T'ai Chi Sabre classes to follow on from Mark's workshop on the evening of Saturday 18th November. We will be in the 'garage hall' of the Wyness Hall, Inverurie for 3 of the 4 sessions, and in 'Barra Base' room at the Inverurie Academy for the other class, which is where I teach Wednesday night T'ai Chi Beginners. Both rooms are excellent for the purpose and are 5 minutes from each other in central Inverurie. The dates and venues are below and all classes run from 7pm until 8.30pm. The rooms cost about £28 per session, so I will need 6 students to confirm for the course to run, please let me know if you would like to attend. If you can only do 1, 2 or 3 classes, the usual guide applies, come to the first and then as many consecutive classes as you can make. It is not possible to come along if you miss the first class, unless you do a 121 with me to catch up. We will have a good section of the Sabre Form for you to work with by the end of the course. Subsequently both Mark and myself will teach the rest of the Sabre Form during 2007. There will be a CD available with Mark demonstrating the Form for those students taking the course, as an aide memoire.

For me, some of the effects of learning and practising Sabre have been a feeling of opening across the heart area, and a sense of reaching out far more than I did previously. All the T'ai Chi principles that we work with still apply in this Form, and it will only strengthen your practice.

Dates:
21st November: Wyness Hall
28th November: Inverurie Academy
5th December: Wyness Hall
12th December: Wyness Hall

All classes cost £5.

Bokkens
You will need a bokken or wooden (not metal) T'ai Chi Sabre to take part. Straight wooden swords are not appropriate for this form. Cheap bokkens can be bought online and also at Sillets of King Street in Aberdeen. www.bokkenshop.com in Japan has a wide range of bokkens of all sizes and prices and send to the UK in less than a week. I have already loaned all my spare bokkens. If you are under 5' 6" tall, you may like to try a medium size bokken for ease of use. Generally, cheap pine bokkens are lighter than hardwoods such as oak, but weight and quality vary in the £6-12 range. David's Sunuke wood bokken is very heavy! My Isu wood bokken is a little heavier than red or white oak, but there is little in it. Feel free to contact me for advice.