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World T’ai Chi and Qigong Day Hosted by Water Tiger 

Gallery 2022

Water Tiger School of T'ai Chi Ch'uan Patchogue Long Island New York

Laoshi Laurince D. McElroy

Suffolk County, Long Island

NY USA

2022

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Tile image hyperlink to Water Tiger's World T'ai Chi & Qigong Day Event Archive - a photo of various people in a gymnasium playing various forms and sets of T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Qigong.

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Three men playing three different empty-hand T'ai Chi Ch'uan forms.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): The midmorning facilitator demonstration always represents how variety is the spice of T’ai Chi. (L to R) Elan Abneri, representing Tyrone “Wei” Wicksman and Silent Mind Tai Chi, Spencer Gee, Spencer Gee Wellness Corporation, and Bill Donnelly, Green Cloud Kung Fu.

Three people playing T'ai Chi Ch'uan - a man and a woman playing an empty-hand form and a second man playing a form with a Chinese straight sword. Two men playing Chinese martial arts forms with onlookers in the background - an older man playing Damo’s Cane Kung-Fu and a younger man playing an empty-hand T'ai Chi Ch'uan form.A political dignitary presenting a proclamation to the event coordinator.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): More from the midmorning facilitator demonstration. (L to R) Laoshi Laurince McElroy, Water Tiger School, and Jean and Bob Klein, Long Island School of T'ai-Chi-Chuan.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): The last from the midmorning facilitator demonstration. (L to R) Joseph Laracuenta III (with cane), East Meadow, and Laoshi Joel Valerio (in front of the onlookers in black), Staten Island.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): As he has for nearly every year since he took office in 2012, Town of Brookhaven Supervisor Ed Romaine (L) was at the event to present to our own Laoshi Laurince D. McElroy (R) a supporting proclamation from the town.

A female workshop facilitator leading a group of event partiipants through an empty-hand T'ai Chi Ch'uan form.A man overseeing event paricipants as they explore various aspects of empty-hand T'ai Chi Ch'uan.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): Judith Budd-Walsh (C — front), Harmonious Movement of Port Jefferson Station, leads people through aspects of her lineage’s Yang-Style Long Form during her workshop, Season Healing Qigong & T’ai Chi Flow.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): Bill Donnelly (C — facing and wearing a white jacket), Green Cloud Kung Fu, taking his group through his workshop, Basics — The Foundation to Techniques in the Form.

A man, wearing contact mitts, giving instructions to two event participants who are both wearing fight gloves.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): Bob and Jean Klein (L — facing in brown jacket and 3rd from L in fuchsia jacket, respectively), Long Island School of T'ai-Chi-Chuan in Sound Beach, leading their first of two workshops, Animal Qigong. A number of other workshops can be seen in the background.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): Spencer Gee (R — in black), Spencer Gee Wellness Corporation in Roslyn, at the beginning of his annual T’ai Chi Workout workshop and putting his first two participants through the paces with contact mitts and fight gloves.

A male workshop facilitator leads a small number of people in open-hand T'ai Chi Ch'uan fundamental drills.A male facilitator explains detail of shoulder activation in a T'ai Chi Ch'uan loosening exercise.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022):  With a very small number of participants, Laoshi Laurince McElroy (L), Water Tiger School of T’ai Chi Ch’uan in East Patchogue, explains some of the details of Huang Xingxian’s Five Loosening Exercises.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): Joseph Laracuenta III (2nd from L — facing in black jacket) of East Meadow, exploring T’ai Chi Fundamentals with his workshop’s participants.

A male faciltator offers instruction to a small group of event participants in a stationary Qigong set.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022): Leading his lineage’s approach to the most popular Qigong set in the world, Standing Eight Pieces of Brocade, Laoshi  Joel Valerio (3rd from the L — facing in black) of Staten Island, drills into the set details with his workshop’s participants.

A male facilitator drills into the foundamental details of an open-hand T'ai Chi Ch'uan form.

World T’ai Chi & Qigong Day; Diamond in the Pines, Coram NY (April 30, 2022):  Tyrone “Wei” Wicksman (C — facing in white jacket), Silent Mind Tai Chi in Stony Brook, introduces his workshop participants to The Basics of Zhang Style Form.