06-21-14, 05:32 PM | ||
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Pacific Northwest
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One of the reasons I was so easily derailed was that the instructor on my DVD (Claire Hooton) didn't mirror cue. She had demonstrators performing the moves with their backs to the audience, but that wasn't enough for me. IMHO, in something so form-specific as Tai Chi, mirror cueing is essential! |
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06-21-14, 05:47 PM | |
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Island off the NC Coast
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I know this is a cop out, but if you really want to learn Tai Chi, I would go with an instructor. There is so much to each move - how you shift your weight, how you balance your foot, move your arm, etc, that I don't think a DVD can give you really good instruction. But instructors are plentiful where I live - which is probably not true in most areas.
Tai Chi is a martial art, as much as Tae Kwon Do, or Muay Thai, but instead of being about contact, it's about yielding or "sticking" to an attack so you block it, not with force, but by not being where you are expected. I watch my Tai Chi master spar with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and it's was absolutely fascinating the way he seemed to melt away from the force. Each move of the forms - long and short - are designed to help you do just that. There is definitely a meditative aspect and as balance is so important, it will help with that. Even videos will.
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