Articles by Howard Gibbon

Don't Forget To Enjoy The View - Its A Beautiful World We Live In.
There I was at the crack of dawn (9.30am actually) too dark at 6.30am, at least that was my reasoning for doing my T'ai Chi practise mid morning. The day was extremely windy but in the confines of my garden not so bad as to disrupt my T'ai Chi practise. As I raised my hands over my head and looked skyward I couldn't help noticing how some small clouds were flying along on the wind.
Published 15Mar2012, viewed 41 times

Resistance Is Futile
As a student and teacher of Tai Chi for the past 38 years one of the greatest benefits to my general health and well being has been to learn that resistance is futile in the sense of trying to overcome a force greater than yourself, physically or mentally, because it inevitable leads to injury, physically and or mentally.
Published 14Mar2012, viewed 54 times

Are You Inside Out Or Outside In? A Strange Question But Let Me Try To Explain Myself
When I first started training in the martial arts I remember watching the other students and teachers and endeavouring to copy their moves. I wished to draw that fluidity and beauty of movement I saw into my own Feng Shou Kung Fu and later when I took it up the art of Tai Chi. This is of course is where we all start out. We see something we aspire to and set out to draw it to us.
Published 09Mar2012, viewed 25 times

To Eat Or Not To Eat Meat
Being a Tai Chi teacher the question of which diet is healthier, one including meat or one excluding meat i.e. a vegetarian diet has lead me to research the subject my finding were surprising. Pythagoras, who is generally given credit for its inception, praised vegetarianism for its hygienic nature and the kinship it fostered between man and the animals.
Published 02Mar2012, viewed 37 times

Reflection - Dare You Look At Yours?
The ripples stretch away from the harbour wall towards the wharf where the boats are moored, here the water is less affected by the wind and the ripples fade away and with them the lamps reflection fades too. When the water is calm it will only reflect a single light, a near perfect replica of the original.
Published 03Mar2012, viewed 52 times

The Long Winding Road
I started my martial arts training under Steve Bab's an accomplished 'Lao Gar' martial artist. Then one day my training partner came to class with excited talk of another Kung Fu class in the area. So along we went the next week to check it out. This system seemed to incorporate many more training regimes and we decided to give it a go as well.
Published 16Feb2012, viewed 103 times

Tai Chi, Saviour of My Sanity
It is not often I experience a feeling of being totally overwhelmed but a few days ago I woke feeling this way. Probably you have had the same feeling yourself sometime. There were family health issues, disputes, unhappiness in abundance.
Published 12Feb2012, viewed 42 times

What Is Tai Chi
All over China many families rise early to complete their Tai Chi movements in the park, on the rooftops, in car parks and on balconies, in fact anywhere they can find a bit of space, before they go off to work or carry on with the rest of the day. Who can benefit from the practice Tai Chi exercises? The answer is just about everyone can improve their general health and well-being with Tai Chi.
Published 12Feb2012, viewed 33 times

Tai Chi - To Be Or Not To Be
One of the problems experienced by new students to Tai Chi is they often complain they can not remember the moves. Because Tai Chi relaxes the body and dulls the thought processes, the moves are often easily forgotten but the essential benefits of Tai Chi i.e. the meditative experience is remembered. Because it is absorbed into their being.
Published 11Feb2012, viewed 51 times

The Yin & Yang
Long ago in ancient China the early Taoists carefully studied the natural world and saw how everything had two influences, which regulate, complement, or oppose. They named them Yin & Yang and depicted them with the now famous symbol.
Published 10Feb2012, viewed 48 times

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