I'm writing this on April 13. It is Sunday, and it has rained the past two days. I put on my down sweater and the black hooded Columbia jacket and walk out to the park (I've got my Gor-Tex hiking shoes on). The park is almost empty. No one is practicing. No one is doing a form. There are some high school kids practicing something, led by an adult or two, but not really being led. They are simply doing what high schoolers are supposed to do. Screw around.
And I decide to do the long form. I find a tree and make myself comfortable under it. Inhale and exhale, doing the form. About two-thirds through, I notice someone apparently taking a video of me. And I smile to myself, "What would she do if she discovered she was videoing a mei guo ren doing Tai Chi.
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This is Tuesday April 15. After breakfast I walk out to the park. The lady with the extensions is there demonstrating to a 50 year old how to move his body, turn and keep and use his core. She leaves a few minutes after I get there. I have been obvious, watching them.
In the far corner are another couple doing a form in mirror. She doing the form right-sided; he on the left. He's dressed in black, and she's dressed in white; I get it: Yin and Yang. They face each other, and for a while it works pretty good, then he lags behind or she rushes ahead. It takes me a while to recognize the Yang long form since the postures and transitions are quite different, but I finally recognize the sequence and the movement. His left side flows very nicely, and he's very relaxed, though he seems to stumble on the sequence later in the form, as he waits for her to get into the next move. Snake creeps down never creeps or gets down, but it seems to work in their form. Here they are.
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