Teacher has suggestion for students preparing for T’ai Chi Chih teacher training

[Last year] at a teacher’s prep class for teacher candidates being conducted by Dan Pienciak, a discussion was being held on the source materials for teacher candidates.

Dan mentioned that there are three key background material sources for T’ai Chi Chih practice: Justin’s video tape, Justin’s book and Justin’s audio tape.

Past experience has shown that most student candidates had the video tape and book but neglect the audio tape. I mentioned to Dan that most people (both candidates and teachers) don’t pay much attention to the audio tape and that is too bad. To me the audio tape was invaluable and helped me greatly in my week of teacher training.

The audio tape is like the language book for T’ai Chi Chih Joy Thru Movement. It provided the translation for terms and concepts used by Ed Altman during my week of teacher training.

As an analogy, most people, when visiting a foreign country, buy a simple language book to understand the basics of the language of that country. This is exactly what the audio tape did for me as it provided the language of T’ai Chi Chih Joy Thru Movement.

I would recommend that all teacher candidates (and even teachers who don’t have a copy) invest in the audio tape and your experience in T’ai Chi Chih practice will be much deeper and rewarding!

– Ron Heck