On the Saturday and Sunday of March 25th and 26th 2000, students of the Five Winds School of Tai Chi Chuan gathered from all over Scotland, from Aberdeen to the Borders, for a residential weekend at Riccarton Campus, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. The event drew together over 80 of Sifu Cameron's students for an intensive training session in all aspects of the Wudang system. Experience ranged from beginners still learning the hand forms to students with many years of practice who teach their own classes. Each day consisted of six hours of training with a morning session of two hours and an afternoon session of four hours. Sifu Cameron supervised and co-ordinated the teaching, assisted by Tadek Klasicki, Philippa Hope, Adrian Martinez and Andreas Schoter.   The weekend began with everyone starting the handforms together. Because some people had not yet completed these forms, smaller teaching groups split off from the main practice. Here we see some beginners working through part of the round form. It is important for beginners to get experience of pushing hands with senior students, so for some of the practice we all mingled together. Most of the different styles of pushing hands were covered over the weekend giving everyone an opportunity to deepen their practice.     A lot of attention was given to the weapons in the system over the weekend. Many people find it hard to find the space to practice these forms and the main sports hall at Riccarton Campus provided the ideal opportunity to explore their dynamic nature. Here Sifu Cameron takes a close look at the details of the sabre form. In addition to experienced students exploring the details of the weapons, the weekend also offered some the opportunity to begin their weapons training. Here, Adrian Martinez takes some students through the beginning of the sabre form.     Here Sifu Cameron demonstrates the move "Wind Blowing Through the Willows" from the spear form. Although the spear form is the shortest of the weapons forms there is a great deal of subtlety that needs to be mastered. As in all of Tai Chi, use of the waist is vital in the correct performance of the spear. In this picture Andreas Schöter coaches some students who have recently completed the spear in the method of expressing power in the form.     Students also had the opportunity to work on applications from the weapons forms. Here we see students practicing sabre counters to a spear attack. All of the moves in the hand form have one or more self-defence applications. Studying these applications is important in expanding a student's perceptions of the form. It allows a student to take the basic skills of sensitivity, timing and distance, that are trained through pushing hands practice, and apply them in a new way.   Here, Tadek Klasicki demonstrated an application from the form and supervises the students' practice.     Many thanks are due to Betty Sutherland (left), who did the vast bulk of the organizing for the event and to Fiona McIntyre (right) who helped with the administration in the final stages. The digital photographs used on this page are courtesy of Dougie Sutherland.