| Crouching Tiger, Hidden
Master (Sam Lui)
Sam
Lui (front) teaching the T’ai Chi class
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After a year of diligent study, Associated Engineering’s
T’ai Chi Group in Burnaby successfully completed
all 108 forms of the Wu Style T’ai Chi Ch'üan.
Led by Master Sam Lui, members of the T’ai Chi Group
include Sandra Baskett, Chris Cheng, Ulrike Kestler, Keith
Kohut, Connie Lau, Mingyu Li, Alice Liu, Lester Marr, Selina
Thing, Alice Wong, and Ben San Wong. Sam Lui, a Mechanical
Technologist in our Burnaby office, has been practicing
T’ai Chi for 11 years. He agreed to teach the T’ai
Chi Group as part of Associated Engineering’s Wellness
Program. Rather than accepting payment for giving the lessons,
Sam requested donations to his charity of choice: the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind (CNIB). The T’ai
Chi Group raised over $1,000 for the CNIB.
People who practice T’ai Chi extol its health and
wellness benefits. Researchers have found that T'ai Chi
has favourable effects on promoting balance control, flexibility,
cardiovascular and respiratory fitness, and reducing pain,
stress, anxiety, and depression. People who have suffered
from heart failure, high blood pressure, heart attacks,
arthritis and multiple sclerosis have also benefited from
T'ai Chi. T'ai Chi has also been shown to reduce the symptoms
for Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
sufferers. Surprisingly, T'ai Chi's gentle, low impact,
movements burn more calories than surfing and nearly as
many as downhill skiing!
"All must stay connected; if one part of the body
moves all parts must move. If one part of the body is still
all parts must be still." Cheng Man Ching (1947)
“To every action (force applied) there is an equal
and opposite reaction (equal force applied in the opposite
direction).” Sir Isaac Newton (1687)
We think Newton would have signed up for one of Sam Lui’s
T’ai Chi
classes if he were around.
David Harvey receives fellowship from
Institution of Civil Engineers
 In
May, David Harvey, Senior Structural Engineer in our Burnaby
office, received his fellowship certificate from the Institution
of Civil Engineers in London. David, who is also a fellow
of the Institution of Structural Engineers, is the incoming
President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in
the UK for the 2006-2007 term.
(right) Gordon Masterton, President of the
Institution of Civil Engineers, presents David Harvey with
ICE Fellowship Certificate. |
