by Thomas M. Krapu, Ph.D.

Supplemental materials to the article published in:
Taijiquan Journal,
Volume 3 Number 3 Summer 2002
(http://www.taijiquanjournal.com/archive.html)
or
Internet version of the article

My son Benjamin (mentioned in article) and the standing meditation referred to in the article.	This posture that is being held will be recognized by many t'ai chi practitioners. It is the second posture in the Shortened Yang Form (Professor Cheng Man-ch'ing).

Reference materials

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Links within this document:

The actual spreadsheet referred to in this article can be viewed at:

http://www.krapu4.com/taichi/WuChiHolding.xls
(if you have Microsoft Excel)
or
http://www.krapu4.com/taichi/WuChiHolding.htm

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A template spreadsheet has been created if you want to download it to experiment with this for yourself. A few different file formats have been attempted:

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The inexpensive timer that I bought at a local drug store:

This timer had a stopwatch function. After my form practice, I set the timer to count how long I stood that day. I rounded seconds up or down to the nearest minute and entered the result into the spreadsheet on a daily basis. I buy my timer at Walgreens.

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Below is a visual image showing the first two weeks of the spreadsheet that extended for a total of 90 days (11/17/01 to 2/6/02).

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Link to the MOST CURRENT version of this spreadsheet (updated thru 5/19/02).

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This chart illustrates how my Tuesday morning teaching responsibility really effected my practice on those days.

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This chart shows how the missed practice on Tuesdays eventually started to "average out" after the class ended and were factored into a 90 day period.

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This chart shows how variable my practice was when I just took "one day at a time" over the 90 day period.

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It is my hope that some of these materials
are of help to you in your practice.

visitors, thank you for your interest.

Biography:

Dr. Tom Krapu () has studied Eastern philosophy, Western psychology and maintained (for the most part) a daily practice since 1972. He is a professional corporate and life coach and licensed psychologist in Saint Louis, Missouri. He has practiced t’ai chi ch’uan since 1985 and is occasionally a t’ai chi ch’uan instructor. He provides various information to the t'ai chi community through a webpage he has developed (http://www.krapu4.com/taichi/). He has developed a t’ai chi weekend retreat format for silent meditative practice, developed a webpage summarizing research findings on t’ai chi ch’uan and is also the cofounder of a private listserv for the dissemination of information between practitioners of Cheng Man’Chings Yang Family Short Form.

2/15/03