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At an “urgent cabinet meeting” the council decided to push ahead with the new sports centre on  the King Alfred site. They agreed that:

“Work to select and appoint a lead architect and professional team to commence the design process will now begin.

At a future cabinet meeting in summer 2025 we will seek agreement on the design and the landowner’s consent (Not sure who this is but…) for submission of a planning application.

We would not expect any work to begin on site before early 2026 and the facility is not expected to open before spring 2028.

The intention is to keep the current facility open and operating for as long as is possible.”

Fingers crossed it proceeds smoothly and the new facility will be suitable and affordable.  I also hope we don’t have to move out for too long but I will look at finding an alternative venue, not too far away, for any closure and/or the future in case it doesn’t suit us.

After the disappointing early closure of the King Alfred, we have had our last class of the year and I have started planning for 2024. We will start back on the first Thursday after New Year.

I shall run a 6 week Beginners Tai Chi Course alongside the regular weekly classes starting on the 4th January. If you are looking to try out a full system of Tai Chi then this is the course for you. We will cover the first few moves of the Short Hand Form, some Pushing Hands drills and a bit of History and Theory but don’t worry, there is no exam at the end! Email, text or call me to book your place and/or ask any questions.

The next Advanced Workshop in Horsham will take place on Saturday 6th January – ask me , or see Peter’s site for details.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, including those I haven’t seen for a while – it’s never too late to re-start!

After another great workshop with Peter in Horsham at the start of June we are back in Hove on Saturday 1st July. It was particularly good to see a few people I haven’t seen for ages.

I know I don’t have Peter’s depth of knowledge, and it is a bit further for many of you to travel, but I do hope more of you can make it south of the Downs this time as it is so good to train with experienced players and exchange ideas – we all learned some things slightly differently from Dan.

Usual time, venue, format and cost see Peter’s Site for details. Unlike Peter, I can’t include a Nei-gong session beforehand but all ‘men-ren’ are welcome to join the Wish Wudang twice weekly Zoom sessions from 7.45-8.25am . Yin set every Tuesday and and Yang every Friday (Alternating between sets 1&2 and 2&3 because all 12 take longer than a free Zoom!). Just DM me for login  details.

Qi-gong/tai-ji in the park is not proving that popular this year – a few ‘newbies’ have tried it but none have stuck as yet. So, if you have just stumbled on this site, and are looking to try Tai Chi or Qi-gong this summer, feel free to come along and give it a go. We meet in the middle of Wish Park/Aldrington Recreation Ground at 6.45pm on Tuesday evenings up until September.

The next advanced workshop will be at Hove Park School, Neville Campus BN3 7BN, on Saturday 13th May. (Moved from the usual first Saturday of the month as it clashed with a certain event in town!).

Usual format & cost, £10 per hour but only £20 for the three:

2-3pm Hand Forms – ‘Not Tiger Stretching’ to warm up followed by Short, Advanced Short, Long plus mirror forms if we have time,

3-4pm Push Hands and Applications – let’s concentrate, this time, on the 9(?) within Grasping Birds Tail after Parry and Punch and before Single Whip,

4-5pm Weapons forms and Applications – prompted by Mattias Nyrell’s Facebook post on Sword Form 88 and the discussion that followed I would like to go over the apps that appear later in the form starting with Support the Beam to Replace the Column. WOODEN WEAPONS ONLY for applications.

Looking forward to it. Hope to see you there.

P.S. Anyone fancy coming to Rencontre Jasnieres this year? Godfrey, Saar and Albert are leading sessions so would be good to support Dan’s Wudang Style.