Scott Cole's Discover Tai Chi: Weight Loss Workout

http://www.beYOU.tv/videos/34 brings you Scott Cole's Discover Tai Chi: Weight Loss Workout.

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[completemusician]

AWFUL. Just awful. All his movement is completely impractical, and lacks any understanding of basic mechanics. All martial understanding is gone, and in most of this he's not even following the basic taiji principles - half his movements are coming from his chest and shoulders - all disconnected - nothing is truly connected to his root or his center - he's just flailing his arms. His cloud hands is an embarrassment., I've seen 60 year olds just practicing for meditation and health do it better.

[LBonesetter]

Yuppii! Martial Aerobics?!? *lmao*/*col* :'-0 Defenitely not Taijiquan! >BAD body posture: not straight (ass sticking out ->lumbar spine curved, Thoracic area... oh no!?.. and the neck & head wiggle here and there, shoulders should keep down, elbows go too far back on their own without the turning of pelvis & torso -> the roundness of the upper body frame is gone, bad biomechanics if you call this taiji (t'ai chi). No grounding visible... As ralaxing, you shouldn't loose your body's posture.

[afsh221]

@zenbear008 and that is just more BS too.

[zenbear008]

@afsh221 That's a very good question: WTF was that?. What Cole is teaching is no holistic health or martial art system that has ever come out of China. See Lama Dondrup Dorje performance at 1997 Cosmopolitan Show in London (here on youtube) --as an example of the centuries of tradition of dedication and self-sacrifice that Cole is insulting by calling what he does Tai Chi.

[zenbear008]

@Robert697 If you still haven't found good media instruction, try Terence Dunn's "Tai Chi For Health, Yang Short Form" or his "Yang Long Form" programs. They have been the most popular how-to TC videos in the West since 1990, and the best-reviewed, most highly-rated on Amazon. you can also get them at Dunn's site, Tai Chi mania.

[zenbear008]

@trrngrl01 -ooh yeah, I'm really pushing da wave. Eeeewww is right."So lame" is what you get when you have a hopeless beginner who never stayed in class long enuf trying to become an instant media star by perverting a classical ancient art. Fortunately there's plenty of hi-quality Tai Chi on web so one can tell real from ridiculous, sacred from profane. See William C.C. Chen for Yangstyle; GMasters Chen Xiao Wang & Chen Bing for Chen. Even my 1 min. Zen-Bear animated logo is more real

[zenbear008]

@ZhangLing1000 Very good points.Tai Chi or Qigong not for weight loss; Tai Chi ruler (wand) can effect weight loss. I am Tai Chi instructor in Los Angeles with 40 yrs of training and 29 yrs of teaching experience and am the producer of the most successful "Tai Chi for Health” dvd’s in history (released in1990). If cole’s programs have any following they would give whole new meaning to “the blind leading the blind.” His skill level and style of Tai Chi can only be described as “Harpy.”

[zenbear008]

@MrOppourtunity Agreed: .this is not Tai Chi. It is flotsam. More violation of Tai Chi principles: (5) “Chest empty; back rounded”—no, cole is the exact OPPOSITE. (6) Tai Chi as "moving meditation?--not here (7) Just as bad, his verbal instructions are inane, insipid come-ons to new age noodle-brains. I’ve never railed against hokum seen on Youtube before, but this stuff is atrocious--a combo of sheer incompetence & the gall to represent Tai Ch in such a poor manner for profit. Only in America.

[zenbear008]

Some of the worst body mechanics I have ever seen in any Tai Chi player. Cole exhibits none of the basic principles of Tai Chi. Not one.(1) Total bodily relaxation—not even close, (2) Waist controls all movement--there is no linkage of lower & upper body thru the waist--thus he is uniformly wooden as opposed to fluid.(3) straight back--ah, cole's lumbar spine is what we call the "seahorse posture", which btw is part of the Tai Chi Classics(4) no root or balance and all very unnatural. see Pt.2

[MrOppourtunity]

This doesn't look like tai chi at all, it's far too aggressive. He is far too tense and destructive. The narrator or whatever you want to call him is contradicting what he does. "Not frantic at all. Grace and ease." Nothing about him is graceful, and his movement although seems to flow, is extremely frantic. Absolutely terrible, anyone who goes to this as their first demonstration of T'ai Chi should immediately look for something else. ANYTHING would be better than cole.

[ZhangLing1000]

looks like random arbitrary arm-waving to me...neither Tai Chi or Qigong were designed for weight loss in any case. In China only the gentry class needed to lose weight - and they had the Chinese Wand Exercises for that. The peasants were fit and active and Tai Chi / Qigong was for fighting and healing, not for losing weight.

[afsh221]

WTF was that? You should be down right embarrased wasting bandwidth like that. c'mon man geez