Tai Chi Saturday

This morning, I had a Tai Chi make up class because our last class of the cycle was canceled. I can't make the class on the 10th because of a prior commitment to Boy Scouts, so we had a make up class today.  We met at one of the local malls that is reasonably quiet.  There were two of us there.  E and I were both there to take advantage of the additional training.  
I warned Sifu (Sifu means 'teacher') that I hadn't been practicing. We went over a lot of basics and picked up from the "Four Corners" in our form and went on through "Chinese Guitar" and then to "Carry the Tiger over the Mountain".  I think the form is really neat, even without the names of the sections.  
Today, Sifu caught some mistakes I was making and corrected me. During Chinese Guitar, I have a tendency to not use my hips...actually, I have a tendency to not use them during most of the things I do, but she corrected me today.  We practiced turning until I was able to turn my complete trunk.  In Tai Chi, the entire trunk is from your neck down to just below your hips.  I have a habit of forgetting that my hips are there, so when I turn, I put stress on my knees. Today was one of those "aha!" moments.  The light came on  After E left, I talked to Sifu and we went over Four Corners to Carry the Tiger over the Mountain, and then I showed her the opening of Kee Cho Hyung Il Bu (Basic form #1).  I am actually using my hips and NOT flopping around or losing my balance.  That's what I needed to be able to do.  That form felt so much better than it's ever felt!  I was pleased with myself for that!  I don't feel like I was reaching past my knees (that's something I need to watch out for in Tai Chi) and I wasn't losing my balance.  It made me happy to see how that went together.  Tai Chi is about balance.  I'm feeling like I saw a definite correlation between Tai Chi and Tang Soo Do.  

I won't have another Tai Chi class until January 24th.  I have a Zumba class starting on the 11th and running for a month.  I'm seriously hoping that I see some weight loss sparked during that class as I'm sure it's going to be intense cardio.  If that doesn't make me lose weight, I'm going to have a discussion with one of my doctors about that.