Tai Chi is magic.

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hotmoon said:

Both literally and poetically.

1. I am able to avoid chiropractors when I do my Tai Chi regularly.
This is a huge benefit for me.

2. My Male Morning Libido Indicator always indicates greater vitality
the morning after I do my Tai Chi. This is very real. If it were
power of suggestion, the the makers of Viagra would be out of
business.

3. If I feel groggy, perhaps too groggy to weight lift and/or do
aerobics, doing Tai Chi will cure that sense of grogginess
immediately.

There are many styles of Tai Chi. Tai Chi is not like martial arts
where mastering many styles (karate, hapkido, etc) is beneficial to
learning to defending oneself. The trick of Tai Chi is repetition:
years, decades of repetition. Once you decide upon a style of Tai
Chi, stick with it forEVER.

One good way to learn Tai Chi, and, hey, I have no connection
whatsoever with this person, is to buy a tape by Terry (Terence) Dunn.
His tape is excellent and his style is very graceful. You can
probably find his tape at Amazon.com. There may be other tapes by
other teachers; I don't know.

I would strongly advise against attempting to learn tai chi, or chi
quong, or yoga, or anything like that, by watching a tape. Even if
the person on the tape is an exquisite practitioner, the tape can't
tell you whether you're doing it right or not. And in all too many
cases, doing the exercise wrong is useless or worse.

Quoted message said:

Going to classes is very valuable. Most class don't cost more than
$5.00 per one session once per week. It took me about 8 months to
learn. It is worth the effort. It can probably be learned faster
than 8 months. If you use a video tape, you can learn at your own
pace.

Pay the money and go to the class. After all, you wouldn't try to
learn brain surgery just by reading a book or watching a tape. I
should hope.

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Conventional exercise works by stressing the system, and the rebound
is where the benefit is. Tai Chi draws in vitality (chi, prana, etc.)
from within and from the environment. There is next to no sense of
being wasted after doing a session of Tai Chi. I have gotten sick
from doing conventional exercise too hard. That would never happen
with Tai Chi. However, I have done too many forms in one day, and
paid for it by being too wired to get to sleep at a proper hour that
night.

I've seen people get sick from overdoing it on chi quong, especially
beginners. You have to pace yourself.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

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In article <[email hidden]>,

hotmoon said:

Both literally and poetically.

1. I am able to avoid chiropractors when I do my Tai Chi regularly.
This is a huge benefit for me.

2. My Male Morning Libido Indicator always indicates greater vitality
the morning after I do my Tai Chi. This is very real. If it were
power of suggestion, the the makers of Viagra would be out of
business.

3. If I feel groggy, perhaps too groggy to weight lift and/or do
aerobics, doing Tai Chi will cure that sense of grogginess
immediately.

There are many styles of Tai Chi. Tai Chi is not like martial arts
where mastering many styles (karate, hapkido, etc) is beneficial to
learning to defending oneself. The trick of Tai Chi is repetition:
years, decades of repetition. Once you decide upon a style of Tai
Chi, stick with it forEVER.

One good way to learn Tai Chi, and, hey, I have no connection
whatsoever with this person, is to buy a tape by Terry (Terence) Dunn.
His tape is excellent and his style is very graceful. You can
probably find his tape at Amazon.com. There may be other tapes by
other teachers; I don't know.

I would strongly advise against attempting to learn tai chi, or chi
quong, or yoga, or anything like that, by watching a tape. Even if
the person on the tape is an exquisite practitioner, the tape can't
tell you whether you're doing it right or not. And in all too many
cases, doing the exercise wrong is useless or worse.

Quoted message said:

Going to classes is very valuable. Most class don't cost more than
$5.00 per one session once per week. It took me about 8 months to
learn. It is worth the effort. It can probably be learned faster
than 8 months. If you use a video tape, you can learn at your own
pace.

Pay the money and go to the class. After all, you wouldn't try to
learn brain surgery just by reading a book or watching a tape. I
should hope.

Quoted message said:

Conventional exercise works by stressing the system, and the rebound
is where the benefit is. Tai Chi draws in vitality (chi, prana, etc.)
from within and from the environment. There is next to no sense of
being wasted after doing a session of Tai Chi. I have gotten sick
from doing conventional exercise too hard. That would never happen
with Tai Chi. However, I have done too many forms in one day, and
paid for it by being too wired to get to sleep at a proper hour that
night.

I've seen people get sick from overdoing it on chi quong, especially
beginners. You have to pace yourself.

-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants
were standing on my shoulders." (Hal Abelson, MIT)

Damn! David is correct.

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Quoted message said:

Both literally and poetically.

1. I am able to avoid chiropractors when I do my Tai Chi regularly.
This is a huge benefit for me.

An easier way is to just avoid them.....

Quoted message said:

2. My Male Morning Libido Indicator always indicates greater vitality
the morning after I do my Tai Chi. This is very real. If it were
power of suggestion, the the makers of Viagra would be out of
business.

Good for you.
It could actually be power of suggestion, but also improved fitness also
helps the "morning libido".

Quoted message said:

3. If I feel groggy, perhaps too groggy to weight lift and/or do
aerobics, doing Tai Chi will cure that sense of grogginess
immediately.

There are many styles of Tai Chi. Tai Chi is not like martial arts
where mastering many styles (karate, hapkido, etc) is beneficial to
learning to defending oneself. The trick of Tai Chi is repetition:
years, decades of repetition. Once you decide upon a style of Tai
Chi, stick with it forEVER.

Any reason why?
Many martial arts have moves that are so different, it is difficult to meld
them into a single personal style. Yet you think it benificial to combine
these and not tai chi?

Quoted message said:

One good way to learn Tai Chi, and, hey, I have no connection
whatsoever with this person, is to buy a tape by Terry (Terence) Dunn.
His tape is excellent and his style is very graceful. You can
probably find his tape at Amazon.com. There may be other tapes by
other teachers; I don't know.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6301866584/104-5851284-6313549
?v=glance

Quoted message said:

Going to classes is very valuable. Most class don't cost more than
$5.00 per one session once per week. It took me about 8 months to
learn. It is worth the effort. It can probably be learned faster
than 8 months. If you use a video tape, you can learn at your own
pace.

Actually, I think that classes are better than any video. Some of the moves
are quite subtle and require careful guidance from a "master" to correctly
develop.

Quoted message said:

Conventional exercise works by stressing the system, and the rebound
is where the benefit is. Tai Chi draws in vitality (chi, prana, etc.)

Actually, Tai chi and conventional excercise are not too different in this
respect. Tai chi is just much more relaxed.

Quoted message said:

from within and from the environment. There is next to no sense of
being wasted after doing a session of Tai Chi. I have gotten sick
from doing conventional exercise too hard. That would never happen
with Tai Chi. However, I have done too many forms in one day, and
paid for it by being too wired to get to sleep at a proper hour that
night.

I say that Tai Chi is magic literally because it draws on "energies"
(chi, prana, etc.) that our atheist friends call magic. I admit
freely that it is magic. It is extremely unlikely that chi will ever
be measured on a physical meter. It is not primarily of this world.
It is transcendental. It affects the nerves and the glands. The
nerves and the glands affects everything else.

The success of Tai Chi does not depend upon theory. It depends upon
repetition.

I have to disagree with you on this.
Tai chi is benificial, and complements common western style excercise.
It is also good for those who cannot handle intense excersise like the
elderly and those recovering from injury.
However, it is just excersise.

Still, keep it up, it is good for you!

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"No he isn't, he's merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle!"

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Doug

Tapes are a good supplement to a class, though. I think you could learn it
more quickly.

BL

"As the waves pass the rock, their shape is changed. There is a hologram of
the rock within the wave that comes forward and crashes on the beach, then
there's a reflected wave back." Ralph Abraham

"I'd like to learn to windsurf." BL