Hmmm, The Force is Strong With This One.

I have now been doing T'ai Chi for a month know and last week I finally managed to meet the head instructor last week. He was VERY impressive. Not in the way that Arnold Schwhateverhis nameis in his action movie days. No, this guy is definately impressive in the Yoda mould. It doesn't help that he physically resembles Yoda a little. He's short with thining hair and definately speaks in riddles.

And last week he demonstrated the use of life energy or 'Chi' as it is a fundamental part of Daoist T'ai Chi, which is the type of T'ai Chi. Up until now everything we have been doing has been to "improve our health and wellbeing" which is also to improve the flow of 'Chi' around the body. The demonstration was how you can use your Chi as part of the arts. This included the demonstration of 4 huge guys (2 on each arm) attempting to bend his arms, while he tried to prevent them. That is to bend them at the elbow (not actually to bend his arm in places it ain't meant to).

If he tensed his muscles, they managed to bend his arms. Buth then he decided to use his Chi instead. This time they couldn't bend his arm at all. He could even still wiggle his fingers to indicate that his arm was relaxed. That wasn't the most astonishing bit. He stood about 3 metres away from an opponent and managed to unbalance them, without actually touching them. Even when they were prepared for it. I half expected to turn round and see him standing on his head balancing rocks.

Of course, I can't do any of that stuff yet, but it makes you wonder if sometimes were too quick to dismiss somthing without seeing it in action first.

Not much else has gone on over the last week. Except that a decision has been over the front garden. I'm going to dog it up, level it out into tiers and plant some plants and shrubs along each tier. I just need to decide what's going on each tier...

...decisions, decisions.

Thought for the Day: You can be loved by many, but can you only love one in return?