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About
Anthony
My
name is Anthony Fidler. I'm 36, and have been a serious practitioner of Tai Chi since 1997.
Most
of my training has been carried out in China, first with Wang Zhi Ping
and then later with Chen Gao Chang (Chang Chang). Chang Chang is
a teacher of the Wang Xi An lineage.
I have also studied a little with Chen Xiao Wang, also an inspiring
teacher, but my contact time with him is insignificant in comparison to
my journey with Wang Zhi Ping and Chang Chang.
I
practise Simplified Yang Style 24, 42 Style , Chen
Style Laojia 75 and Chen 32. |
Anthony
in Yangshuo April 07
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I realised after my first real experience of Tai Chi that I wanted it whatever the effort required and I
practised every day from then on generally twice a day.
Anthony
in a Yang Style Standing Posture
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I actually focused all of my life on my Tai Chi
alongside Vipassana Meditation for several years with everything else
literally bending round the edges of it or being surrendered.
My journey is still an ongoing process, but Tai Chi is a very
rewarding
part of my life and one I wouldn't want to have missed for anything.
My first contact with Tai Chi was while a student at
Cambridge
University in 1989.
I attended weekly classes for a couple of academic years, but
failed to integrate it into my life and eventually gave up.
I didn't give it attention again until 5 years later
in 1997
when I met Wang Zhi Ping in the park in Yangshuo, China.
At
this point Tai Chi
entered my life and I returned to China year after year afterwards to
continue my study.
I visited in 1998, 1999 and 2000 when I decided to give up visiting and
just lived in China until July 2001.
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Much of the rest of the time between 1997
and 2001 was also spent in
Asia when I would set up lifestyles for myself which facilitated my
practice usually in India.
Since
2001, I've visited in 2003, 2005 and 2006 for 2-3 months training each time and
then in 2007 I spent 7 months of intensive training with my teachers.
I cannot compare the
experience of learning once a week in a class that I had at Cambridge
with my experience of learning in China - for me, generally 7 days a
week and 3-4 hours or more per day one to one with my teachers.
However in the classes I teach myself, I aspire to convey the
experience I
gained and hand it over in a way which allows Western people to learn
as quickly and well as they are able within the constraints of their
lifestyle.
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Anthony in a Chen Style Posture |
Tai Chi did not come easily for me. In
fact I would say I was so uncoordinated and broken in my energy flow
that I was literally ill and the learning path has been very hard for
me.
This journey has left me with a lot of experience and patience for
teaching the Tai Chi and I am excited now about sharing my Tai Chi with
others.
My other work while
living in Asia has been teaching English
which I've found very rewarding and also a source of growth for myself.
It has
helped me a lot in learning about teaching groups of people. |
In
the UK, I worked for a while as a financial auditor and then as a
Computer Programmer and though I always did my best to do a good job, I
can't really say my heart was in that work.
At heart I am a traveller. I feel at home in India, the Himalayas,
Nepal, Tibet and China and everything I do seems to be inspired by the
connections I've made on my journeys.
I am only now starting
to find myself in my work which I see as being a manifestation in the
West of my ongoing life in the East. My name in Chinese is
EasternPeace.
The Video Library
Each of
the following videos really require a fast internet connection to watch
them.
A Short Video Clip of Anthony doing Simplified
Yang 24 - Dec 25th 2005
Click here to open the movie...
A
Video Clip of Anthony doing Chen 21 with Wang Zhi Ping -
Nov 2006
A Video Clip of Anthony doing Chen Lao Jia Yi Lu 75 - Xmas
Day 2005
A Video Clip of Anthony teaching Yang 24 to Children in China
- November 2005
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So why not
learn Tai Chi....
Email me:
anthony@easternpeace.co.uk
Important! - Please write Tai Chi in the subject
Or
call me on my mobile:
07881 836359
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