Tai Chi For Beginners - 10 MUST KNOW TIPS for better Tai Chi.

There are so many ways to improve your tai chi and get more depth into this amazing art. It will save you a lot of time if you can set your compass in the right direction from early on.

Tai Chi (taiji) is translated literally as "Supreme Ultimate". That's a significant statement to make about anything. Tai Chi is not very well understood, even in China where millions of people practice it everyday. People know tai chi by it's cover, which is slow, soft, gentle, relaxing, which are all correct, but rarely do people see that tai chi is also powerful, fast, intense, physically demanding, and much much more.

Tai Chi bring everything back into balance. It unites hardness and softness, quickness and slowness, and stillness and motion. It increases awareness and improves focus. Tai Chi has kicks, punches, jumps, and many explosive movements, and of course it has soft and gentle movements as most people can observe.

The practice of tai chi facilitates the flow of the qi energy through the body and the result is more energy, more vitality, and less stress.

Tai chi is easy to learn and once you get bitten by the tai chi bug you will be a practitioner for life.

The benefits of tai chi are well documented, but what is not well documented are the skills that come from relaxation, alignment, and whole body unity.

The symbol of tai chi is the yin yang ☯ which represents balance, unity, harmony, and the reality that there is no such thing as an absolute this or that.

Would you like to learn how to relax more?

Check out the following videos for relaxation and stress reduction exercises.

5 Exercises to reduce stress (Qi Gong)

Qi Gong - Warm Up Exercises

Qi Gong - Energy Cultivation Set (30 Minutes)

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[Frari]

Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
I am a physiotherapist, 60j, from germany, doing the yang-style ( patrick kelly).
I earn my money with this non-awareness and tension of my patients :-))
When I touch my Patients on their neck and shoulder I can feel their tension, but THEY are not aware of it.
If they would be aware of it, it would fade away.
I think your enlightenment? / explanation is essentiell .
I really love it.
So clear, calm, easy to understand.
Could be teached in school for children or students, instead of football, hockey etc….

[fgangat]

I agree with u... Practice makes perfect.... Be consistent and practice one style daily till u master it❤... Thank u for sharing yr valuable advice

[jodypalm]

"Tai Chi is a long game" LOL! Ain't that the truth! Loved your 10 tips. Thanks for a great video.

[willowstream]

Once again, a brilliant tai chi video.

To go with tip number one, Cheng Man Ching said "the teachings are within the form." It sounds strange at first, but after years of daily practice I've discovered exactly what he meant. With an attentive mind, the form becomes self-correcting. I can't say how that happens, but it does happen.

[bajuszpal]

Excellent ideas, Sir, just I have taken note of eleven tips. Anyway, COnsistency and patience are crucial. Good helalth, Paul, 67, retired instructor of Karate.

[giorgiannickson]

Very informative video, and useful tips. I would point out that the hand shape tip is style-specific, so not practical for all beginners. Over extending the fingers and other joints, would most probably bring unwanted tension, but a slight spacing between the fingers is required for some styles and can be done in a relaxed manner without breaking the connection to the rest of the body. Thanks for sharing your Tai Chi Chuan experience

[TaichiStraightlife]

Good video, not the usual "differentiate between full and empty, the waist is the commander etc". I believe that before the form, there were the postures, so I'll stop and adjust. For example, I do CMC 37 movements... or postures. Single Whip shows up 5 times, so whenever I arrive at a Single Whip posture I'll stop and adjust my body for a minute, as if it's a zhan zhuang posture: is my spine elongated? (I'll then imagine a hand wrapping around my upper spine like it's a thick hanging chain & then I'll pull it straight up). Are my elbows dropped? I pull up my head, drop my lower spine, etc. and then just feel the whole effect for a moment and move on.



Otherwise I feel you can be messed up from the constant movement, because you didn't just assume the posture, you arrived there from another posture, and if you didn't arrive perfectly, then the new posture will be off as well- especially with foot placement... so I also have to see if, when I arrived in Single Whip, were my feet too narrow? And I'll adjust that too. I also do that for Play The Lute and Lift Hands.

It's not all just flow: there are the postures and then there are the transitions; they have to be differentiated. You have to know in your bones when you've arrived in Single Whip, before you leave it. Anyway, that's how I see it.

[cindawong]

Even Tai Chi is a gentle exercise, it’s still important to do Tai Chi warm up exercises before jumping into thing. Fun-15 minutes internal-based Tai Chi warm up exercise and Tai Chi movements designed to get my heart pumping, keep my body guessing, and let me quickly get on with my day.

[Beherenow-pe]

Excellent advise.
So appreciate it.
Stick with one form and perfect it. Love it 💚💚💚 and my advice is to go barefoot as much as you can, grounding to the mother herself 💚 catstep...love it 💚

[ginatrascierraguzman]

Really good instructions thank you so much

[Steamxys]

Very good tips, I've been practicing Chen style for 5 years, and had to find out those tips by myself. Those are valuable tips.

[AndrewUKLondon]

Handy tips thanks for sharing.
Flat shoes can be easily overlooked.

[madelinebrennan]

Tip #8 was particularly helpful for me. I stopped meditating regularly a few years ago. Now, i find i get tension headaches regularly when stressed at all, and i KNOW it's from tension in neck and shoulders. I know that if i get back to meditation which, like tai chi, slows you down enough to attend to what's happening within your mind and body, that it will reduce these headaches b/c i'll hopefully catch and loosen the tension before it develops into a headache. thank you for this reminder. Agh! I've become so undisciplined in my old age! :/

[aliazami]

great video, very informative and right to the point. Thank you very much

[brunojiful]

U ve a recommendation for a teacher in Asia? I m right now in India..thanks!!

[kathysheeran]

Great tips. But the videos referenced say not available 😢😢.

[bristolkitty]

I found this video Searching: Tai chi taught better; glad I found it. This breakdown really unfuddles things.

[LyndonSSmith]

Dear Colin, thank you for these videos on your channel. You are so clear and I thank you for your explanations and time you've spent doing these, they are very helpful. Are you got to do something on differences between Tai Chi and Qi Gong thanks? Lyndon

[文哥-ie]

one of the most important requirements is find a reasonable good teacher (no nonsense). they can make correction for you.. Just practice usually won't do anything better. You can often see people practice taiji almost everyday in the park and they don't understand taiji.

[lawrencehoward]

Tai Chi is simple.... it's just not easy