Schedule

place: Stř­elecký ostrov (Shoot­ing Island)

12–14 Sep­tem­ber 2025

Friday

• 10:00 ‑12:30 —  workshops
• 14:30 ‑14:50 — prac­tice in pairs: Tap Sao
• 14:50 ‑17:00 — prac­tice in pairs:  Free push-hands
• (17.00 — 18:30 — Pri­vate fenc­ing lessons for long-term stu­dents of Tomasz Nowakows­ki only. Sor­ry for the others.)
  19:00 — .. Those inter­est­ed can meet for din­ner togeth­er. Pivo­var Národ­ní, Národ­ní 8 (map)
  (Not includ­ed in the reg­is­tra­tion fee.)

Saturday

• 10:00 — 12:30 —  workshops
• 14:30 — 14:50 — prac­tice in pairs: Tap Sao
• 14:50 — 17:00 — prac­tice in pairs:  Free push-hands
• 17:00 — 18:00 — break, prepa­ra­tion for “Gala” evening
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• 19:00 — … forms exhibitions
• par­ty

Sunday

• 10:00–12:30 —  workshops
• 14:30–14:50 — prac­tice in pairs: Tap Sao
• 14:50–17:00 — prac­tice in pairs:  Free push-hands

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• Work­shops – Expe­ri­enced teach­ers will present their meth­ods of work in Tai Chi Chuan and/or push hands.
• Prac­tice in pairs
  • 4×5 min­utes of Tap Sao
  • Free push-hands: Par­tic­i­pants will indi­vid­u­al­ly agree on how they want to prac­tice in pairs. They will prac­tice in 10-minute rounds. Par­tic­i­pants will agree on the type of prac­tice (free push hands vs. form push hands, with steps vs. with­out steps). The lev­el is always adjust­ed to the prac­ti­tion­er with less experience.
• Gala-evening – Space for pre­sen­ta­tions of styles, schools, and forms as well as a friend­ly meeting.

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Teachers

• Mau­ro Bertoli
• Mar­tin Neumann
• Tomasz Nowakows­ki

 

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Mauro Bertoli

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Martin Neumann

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Tomasz (Thomas) Nowakowski

Biography

Tomasz (Thomas) Nowakows­ki liv­ing in Lon­don, visu­al and mar­tial artist. He has stud­ied dif­fer­ent mar­tial arts since 1966 and has been teach­ing T’ai Chi Ch’uan and Qi Gong since 1982. Dur­ing the last 30 years, Thomas has taught Tai Chi Chuan and Qi Gong in many coun­tries: Aus­tria, Czech Repub­lic, France, Ger­many, Italy, Poland, Slo­va­kia, Tai­wan and the Unit­ed King­dom. He has led work­shops at his own school as well as for dif­fer­ent com­pa­nies, and cul­tur­al and edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions. Thomas was a judge at the Open Nation­al Cham­pi­onship of Tai­wan in 2004. He is a co-founder of The Cen­tre of Taoist Arts Gold­en Hill (Zlaty Kopec) in Prague, the Inter­na­tion­al Push Hands Meet­ing in Prague and founder of Tai Chi Art Cen­tre Lon­don. In 1990 he met his cur­rent teacher Dr Ming Wong C.Y. and stud­ied his fam­i­ly style Tai Chi, Tai Ki Kung San Fung and some tech­niques and the­o­ries of Chi­nese med­i­cine. Thomas is the author of “Shapes of Bal­ance” sys­tem (struc­tured devel­op­ment of perception).

Workshop Topic

“When you under­stand a tech­nique, you know a tech­nique. When you under­stand a con­cept, you know a thou­sand techniques.”
Under­stand­ing a con­cept is the core of my Shapes of Bal­ance teach­ing system.

The top­ic of my work­shop will be prac­ti­cal research of a con­cept of Chang San Feng 13th Fun­da­men­tal Forms Tai Chi in indi­vid­ual forms and their appli­ca­tions with part­ners in Tuishou (Push­ing Hands). Based on the com­par­i­son exam­ples from San Feng and Yang styles. We will be work­ing with tim­ing, coor­di­na­tion, the bal­ance of struc­ture and aware­ness of move­ments in action with partners.

Links

• Cen­tre of Taoist Arts Gold­en Hill (home page)
• Tai Ki Kung