5 Snake is a unique and powerful method of finding flow, resilience, and calm through partnered close- quarter practice.
Informed by the wisdom and tradition of tai chi chuan, this illuminating yet grounded art will develop your tactile senses, your ability to remain rooted amidst chaos, and your practical reflexes.
Through the 5 snake method which we have developed through fifty years of combined practice, you will craft a unified, relaxed and powerful body, as well as a creative and agile mind.
Do you feel stuck? Do you long for flow?
Tai chi has long been renowned for its grace, softness and flow. But whilst millions practice it as a solo movement art, few have a full understanding of tai chi as a partnered art.
Even fewer are able to take the amazing wisdom handed down in the tai chi tradition and offer it in a simple, accessible, achievable way.
The close quarter work we do aims to unlock your fluidity and creativity. Knots of tension within body and breath open up as your structure adapts to change and challenge. Fears can be met and surpassed as you realise what you are capable of.
Does life sometimes feel flat?
5 Snake gives you the chance for clear progress in a practice which has obvious benefit and enjoyment, and which will challenge and rejuvenate you. The encounters between our students may look overwhelming as an observer, but participants regularly report that they feel alive and refreshed (and tired in a triumphant way!) after each 5 Snake session. Our mindset is that each person is training in order to make the other person better: we don’t place much value on “winning” or “losing”, but respect those people who can play with a generous and open attitude. We develop character as well as skills, we hone our spirit as much as our muscles.
Our unique method of training and mindset will enable you to feel where you have excess tension.
By unblocking this tension you will become smoother, faster and more martially competent.
Enhance your life. Be adaptable. Be resilient. Keep playing.
join us Wednesdays 7pm at Miah Bros Gym Portslade
COST £10 cash
WHO WE are
IAN began studying Wudang style Tai Chi Chuan in 1992 under Master Dan Docherty, the founder of Practical Tai Chi Chuan International and many other excellent Wudang instructors. He has been teaching since 1998 and a professional Tai Chi Chuan instructor since 2002. Ian is a Senior (S) grade instructor with the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain. Click on link Tai Chi Brighton for Ian’s Wudang Tai Chi Chuan classes.
Ian has trained in Western boxing under Andreas Hizo, practices Mark Rippetoe’s Starting Strength Method and The Wim Hof Method.
He acheived a Shotokan Karate 1st dan black belt in 1990 under SEKU Sensei Dave Hazard.
NICK has practiced Wudang style Tai Chi Chuan since 2002. He is a Senior (S) grade instructor with the Tai Chi Union for Great Britain.
He has been teaching for the last decade and specialised in teaching pushing hands for the last seven years.
He has been inspired by the work of Rory Miller of Chiron Training and Rafe Kelley of Evolve, Move, Play and has trained with both of them in person. He also practiced Zen Buddhism for several years, and walked a six hundred mile pilgrimage in Shikoku, Japan.