Training Equipment Renovated

8 April 2009

Thanks to the help of Farai Muchenji, a Taijiquan practitioner and visitor at the YMAA Retreat Center, the disciples have rebuilt much of their outdoor training equipment. These structures include pull-up bars, dip bars, and outdoor rope gyms. Most of them are intended to condition arm and upper body strength.

Farai is an experienced artist, who has a passion for creating and building things. He came to the Retreat Center to focus on training Pushing Hands, but while there, he also joined the disciples in some of the body conditioning drills. After seeing the structures that were initially constructed, he decided to contribute some material and guidance to helping renovate each of the training stations, making them more stable, safe, and permanent.

The construction included digging up many rocks and stubborn old roots. The new structures were completed in four afternoons and one morning. They are now more solid and more aesthetically pleasing than the previous ones.

Thanks to Farai, now students and visitors can train in better conditions at the YMAA Retreat Center! You may read Ricardo's blog post about it online.