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Issue 71 January 2008
Essentially "taichido" is a composite word; one we simply 'made up'.
Aside from the Romanisation of the written words of "tai chi" from the Chinese and "do" from the Japanese, the two are altered further by rolling them up into the one word title of "taichido".

February 2008
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Issue 72 March 2008
Gary looks at the Martial Art belt system. Although tai chi we tend to think of as a health meditative form, it derived from (and still has) a martial art aspect – tai chi chuan. The grading or belt system for martial arts is well-known, but do you really understand what it means?

Issue 73 April 2008
Regular readers of this newsletter will know that, upon their request, I take my Tai Chi instruction to a regional branch of Parkinson's disease sufferers. We meet twice a month and have done so for over a year now. Every session we do lots of sat down Chi Kung and then, bit by bit, make our way into The Yang Long Form; adapted to also be done sitting down. We call it "top half tai chi".

Issue 74 May 2008
Gary talks about  the Year of the Rat  and the five elements. as you will see, our concept of a 'rat' is much more auspicious than we think...

June 2008
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issue 75 July 2008
Gary uses this newsletter to talk about the... newsletters.

issue 76 September 2008
Over the years various experts have commented upon or criticised the word "taichido", saying quite correctly that it is a mix a two languages; Chinese and Japanese. I must confess that this is so and would only add that it might be a mixture of three; those two and English!