Chinese New Year Celebration 2021 - A Martial Arts Workshop

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Join a series of events hosted by De Montfort University’s Confucius Institute (DMUCI) to celebrate Chinese New Year 2021.

To celebrate Chinese New Year and to promote wellbeing, join us as the Fellow of the Institute of Martial Arts and Sciences, Internal Martial Artist Mr. Yun Choi Yeung delivers a one-hour presentation on the sciences of Taijiquan which includes a lecture, some simple exercises, and Q&A session.

This presentation is a review of Taijiquan from a scientific perspective, and to specify the known variables for research and teaching. The presenter has coached Taijiquan as a competitive sport, and undertaken research on Taijiquan’s spinal movements, biomechanics, meridian paths, and therapeutic effects. His current research project is the self-myofascial release techniques in Taijiquan. The aim of this presentation is to promote Taijiquan as a mind-directed, stretchy and springy exercise to improve practitioners’ strength and flexibility. There are simple exercises that participants can try out in their own space during the session related to the unique features of Taijiquan. By the end of this session, participants will learn how to differentiate between brute force (shortening of muscles) and lengthening muscles (eccentric muscle contraction), how to generate innate strength, how to store up elastic energy, how to utilize stored elastic energy, and how to activate the larger muscle groups (issue forces from the spine).