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Charge!

The 2009 Yang-style Taijiquan Full Curriculum Intensive was an amazing experience and a journey of transformation for all involved! Warm and fuzzy congratulations to: Javier Arnanz, Erik Báez, Karin Collins, Ed Cooper, Trude De Jong, Declan King, Tony Galis, Dorian Gregory, Mary Hansell, Bobby Kaplan and Simon Robins. These brave and dedicated taiji players came from Canada, USA, México, Spain and England in order to study the entire curriculum of Yang-style Taijiquan for three months. Please welcome these burgeoning masters as they charge back into their communities with a whole new level of skill and commitment! Read my week-by-week account here.

This was the second time I taught an intensive of this scope and I learned a lot in the process: about managing the huge body of material and about the curriculum itself. At the end, students received individualized hand-drawn certificates. Those of you interested in doing something like this (in about 2 years) should begin your curriculum building now to qualify for the training.

_{Yang Intensive Certificate: Ed Cooper}

In the meantime, I'm preparing for the 5 Section Full Curriculum Intensive in Madrid Spain (Nov. 20-Dec. 14). The class is filling up but there may be a couple spots if you get your registration in before the end of April.

Also: keep checking back for a three week San Miguel Taijiquan Intensive next year in 2010.

In music news: While I was in San Miguel I recorded ten songs with a phenomenal band; Bobby Kapp (drums), Gabriel Hernandez (piano), Tyler Mitchel (bass), Ken Basman (—Bobby and Ken trained in the Yang Intensive as well!) The album—'LUCKY TIME'—features new treatments of several favorite SamSongs previously recorded by other artists. Songs include: 'Roses on a River', 'Diamond Space' and 'June', as well as unrecorded songs such as: 'Berlin Boy' and 'Blues & You & Me'. Look for 'LUCKY TIME' in the summer of 2009.

-- Sam