Tai Chi is for self-improvement.
My oh my, what an interesting number of opinions/replies. I doubt that very many have enough knowledge to really comment on such a broad subject. Really, in the broad scheme of things, who cares. Serious practitioners of any art that dedicate their lives to training and teaching seem to reach a place where the importance of the basic "nuts-and-bolts" approach becomes irrelevant. Martial arts are for self-enlightenment not brutalization of others. I can only hope that those who train to injure others will eventually come to understand themselves better.
"The hardest thing is for a man to change his character." T. T. Liang
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I have to say something....Shaolin Kungfu does not only consist of hard or external styles. It has a great deal of internal and soft styles.....Infact there are a huge deal of softness theories...and Shaolin internal skills greatly developed. Luo han fist and six rivers are two examples soft stylesLeave a comment:
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well i wasnt thinking in a provacative mannerOriginally posted by Garland View Postapparently it has nothing to do with lack of being able to take a hefty sized shit.
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digestive system
Actually Tai Chi will help your constipation. But you aren't exactly "harnessing your chi" in order to do so. In the forms, the internal organs are messaged through the movements and your breath. Realxing them and allowing them to function properly.
Sorry if anything Ive posted is a repeat of other's posts. I am new to the forum and couldn't wade through all 75 pages of this thread.Leave a comment:
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Originally posted by Mephariel View Post
A tai chi practioner advanced enough to compete in the UFC wouldn't. It is never a practioner's goal to hurt someone.
One thing that makes it such an excelent self defense form is it's ability to neutralize a force and offset your opponinent with the option to counter-attack.
I know I have no way of ending this seemingly impossible argument, but it should not even be one.
Tai chi, for most westerners, is like yoga for most westerners. The average "western version" of the disciplines are tiny portions of the whole systems of thought.
Tai chi IS a martial art. there is no question. The misleading thing is that there are relatively very few teachers that are truley qualified to teach the entire art form. Which includes, but is not limited to: multiple hand forms, weapons forms, push hands (form and freestlye), sparing, chi gong, accupressure, message, and joint manipulation.
A Very brief HISTORY
In ancient China, the doctors were practioners of Chi Gong, a discipline intended, among other things, to open the internal systems and allow the flow chi(which translates as heat, blood, breath, energy, molecular vibration) throughout the body. In a time of social unrest, the practioners needed either an army, or a form of self defense to travel from village to village in order to see patients. From here Tai Chi Chaun was created. It was a fighting style that would embrace, and not conflict with their effeorts in Chi Gong. It was kept within the Chen family and eventually taught to several other familys( I cannot recall them all). These fammilys also kept it internally and passed it down through generations. Recently they have begun teaching the art form to outsiders in order to preserve it.
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