Looking for some feedback.

What do you feel you get out of it?

Do you feel its comparible to Yoga for flexibility, Breathing, Posture, Muscle Toning or complete bullshit.

It's a totally awesome way to be a loser. Amazingly unexerciseful exercise.

I am T'ai Chi'ing myself as we speak.

I did it for like 3 months 5 years ago..you do feel good n the breathing / meditation exercises you learn really do calm you n project energy.

As good as bar coke, bra?

It can clean up that bad bar coke hangover,bra!

So its good for relaxation - meditation?

Why did you give it up? Bar coke?

I'm sure it works great, but consider this:
a: It looks stupid, particularly when guys do it.
b: You're supposed to do it outdoors.

time n money, n if i was gonna spend any money it was gonna be getting back into MMA!

Now yer talkin'!!!

Exactly,bra! I used to pay 70 buxx for a months worht of BJJ, go as many times a week as you wanted..now it's like almost 200 bux a month for twqice a week!

Whatever dude...Tai Chi Chuan is Ultimate Supreme Boxing. Non-exercise? Right...you wish you knew. Great exercise. Moving meditation.

I think it's hilarious when I see random people in random situations practicing T'ai Chi. It's always the same dude though...hippie, hand-woven multi-colored fanny pack, black socks w/ mandals, ponytail. Who do these people think they are, Patrick Dalton Swayze?

I've done Tai Chi for a bunch of years now and think it's really helpful for you and it's nothing special but helpful as long as you don't look at it like an American would.

I'm an old drunk and have short hair. Not much hippie about me. Lou Reed does it also, so there you go.

I've never been able to do meditation so I look at it as doing it while doing something physical.

Check it out.

Ultimate Supreme, huh? Does it cost a bazillion gamillion dollars, too?

I betcha all the dudes in the MMA's focus primarily on Tai Chi training, what with it being so ultimate AND supreme.

Who do you think you are, Joan Rivers?

Hippie!

That's what it means, grasshopper. I didn't make the name.

HD, here's the deal brosephus. I took martial arts for seven years and trained in four separate styles. Tai Chi is some of the most dangerous art around and most folks don't know it. It's slow in movement but those moves, when sped up (Which a good martial art instructor is teaching...), are some massively devastating attacks. When people see it so slow they often feel it couldn't be effective in a street confrontation and that's the thing. Thing is, now with MMA, those are barely street moves now. It's more wrestling but it turns out that I once learned that lots of MMA guys train in tai chi as well as it helps with the breathing to perform better.

I like MMA so don't get me wrong and follow it. There's a reason this art is still around after thousands of years my friend. That's all...most pacifists start up in it thinking that they didn't want to learn a harmful art but in my experience once they were learning the practical applications their eyes lit up like "Whoa I didn't think that move would used like that...". It's all good. All of the "best" train in tai chi chuan.

Enjoy!

I certainly did not.

Reason I have been contemplating this is although i've been doing Tae bo (and its kicking my ass) I used to do Yoga to stretch out my muscles, for flexibility and for relaxation/meditation. However I have a screwed up knee and can not do a lot of the lower bending activities in Yoga and I miss it... The Tae bo is helping but eventually I will need surgery... I just cannot bend it all the way without it feeling like it will rip. Slightly bending it and standing, running, etc., does not bother me. I thought Tai Chi would be a great way to get similiar effects as Yoga. Thank you for your insight.

Most people don't. Most chinese martial arts do, lets say kung-fu along WITH Tai Chi, it's almost like a supplementary art. The years I studied Kung-fu I was always thinking "Yeah, I'll focus on tai chi more when I'm older" but I learned to enjoy it and your power you develop is pretty strong. It's interesting...

Tae Bo is supposed to be really good exercise. Tai Chi should be a similar workout as yoga. Sorry that you are injured. Hope that when you have your surgery that you will heal well. Best of luck regardless.

Thanks hon - I will admit I HATE to exercise and walking on a treadmill or outside is no fun for me - I have been trying alternates like Tae Bo, Belly Dancing and now thinking about Tai Chi. Someone in work has discussed tap dancing but I'm working up to that!

Makes me interested in actually doing it...... Although i'm going to admit the first time I did Tae Bo I had muscle spasms in my ass the next day - I knew it was working, plus I had a blast doing it.

Thanks for your insights and contribution!

I work in Quincy and see a lot of this stuff early in the A.M.

It's usually asians who look to be 1000 years old and in top form physically.

I also see them walking the beach backwards. It looks weird, but there's gotta be something to it.