Taoist Long Life Set, body opening and preparation part 4

These seemingly gentle exercises are very effective in revitalizing anyone who practices them, starting any practice or activity with these improves the experience. What's really important here is getting the body relaxed and all the weight into the feet so the spine can rise easily allowing us to move from the feet. Soon we will post the martial applications and the Chi Gung variation.

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[taichiplayer100]

Nice basic warm up moves BUT those low stances are crazy. Only trained athletes or those doing tai chi since they were 4 could achieve them so they are hardly gentle and could encourage people to injure themselves. That sort of thing gets tai chi a bad name.

[chentaichiacademy]

@taichiplayer100 sure this is the intermediate level. At our school a lot of folks even those who have back surgery have been able to acheive this depth. The key is to do it a little twice a day and not to exhaust connective tissue or tire out the muscles. We are a full time school so its not a twice a week hobby. Every one of the moves contains martial applications, this is a separate fighting system but there is some additional stuff such as partner drills and stepping drills.

[taichiplayer100]

Intermediate level, you must be kidding but yes, full time practice is different to twice a week. I've been doing tai chi for 10 years with some good Chen teachers. I now work with older people getting them moving with tai chi, that's a different ballgame. I commented because what you do is beautiful but could do with some explanation that it takes a lot of work to achieve that level of movement!