Learn Tai Chi Basics In A Few Minutes

By Stacey Burt


Now Tai Chi is known to be one of the best ways for one to be able to increase his health because it is a way for one to gather up his chi and use it to strengthen his body. Because of the presence of chi, one will not only have very strong internal organs but also a strong muscular and skeletal system to. So if one is willing to learn tai chi, then here is an overview of what he will be doing.

Now before going to the physical aspect of the art, one has to first concentrate on the internal or the health aspect because if one is healthy, it will reflect on the outside. So one of the most important things that one would have to take note of would be the breathing. Proper breathing is an integral part of the art because it will give one energy as well as make him strong.

Now if one would want to harness his chi, he has to first be able to control his breathing and breathe through his abdomen. To do this, he has to first inhale and fill his abdomen with oxygen. After he does this, he should breathe our and deflate his stomach so that carbon dioxide comes out.

Now if one would want to do this martial art properly, then he has to make sure that this would be the new way that he would breathe from now on. So of course he would have to keep on practicing if he would want to get it right. Once he has done that, then he can learn about the basic stances.

The most basic stance that he will be assuming for most of the time would be the horse rider stance. The horse rider stance makes a practitioner stand in a sitting position similar to the position of riding a horse. In this stance, one can actually be able to get a lot of health benefits.

So in order to assume this stance, one will first be standing in an upright position with his hands and legs relaxed. From his relaxed position, he should first breathe in and then breathe out while he slowly bends his legs. Now he has to make sure that his legs are rather apart and his hands are relaxed and down. After one has mastered this stance, then he will be practicing that everyday and mastering it before he can go on to the next one.

From the horse stance, he will then be learning to shift to the bow rider stance which is pretty much just a forward lunge. After he would do that, he will then switch t the basic cat stance where in his back leg is bent and is carrying majority of the weight of his body. He will be learning how to switch from stance to stance.

Now after learning those stances, the instructor will then let the student incorporate some hand movements. This would include some slow punching movements, kicking movements, and even some pushing movements. Doing this will all encompass the forms.




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