Journeying » Tai Ji http://www.4896kj.com/journeying Somewhere I visit, I share. Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:44:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Movement of Tai Ji http://www.4896kj.com/journeying/movement-of-tai-ji/2007/03/01/ http://www.4896kj.com/journeying/movement-of-tai-ji/2007/03/01/#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:12:29 +0000 KJ Lim http://4896kj.com/journeying/2007/03/01/movement-of-tai-ji/ I learned Tai Ji during high school. That time, my club advisor had suggested many times to us perform a dance with Tai Ji. But, none of us have made it. Now, he already retired from that high school. I believe he still has this idea with him. I’m sure he would like to have a look on this Tai Ji performance on China TV for this Chinese New Year celebration.


The movements of Tai Ji by the performers were so smooth. I really impressed. If you are practice Tai Ji, this kind of movement you should aim to. Me too.

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It is very common people have misconception of Tai Ji. It just like we watch two men fighting to each other with sword (martial art sword in this case) in the movie. Frankly speaking, that is for entertainment purpose only. In reality, the sword will become saw not sword anymore if you use it to fight like that.

When someone mention about Tai Ji, people will related it as great exercise for the elderly. This is partially true. The elderly certainly benefit from practicing Tai Ji. But, it is not only for the elderly but for young people too. I start my Tai Ji lesson together with friends of mine at age 16. Yes, I start to learn Tai Ji while I was 16. I still remember we were practicing Tai Ji together with elderly in the garden during weekend. What we did there? We were competing to the elderly who was the slower in Tai Ji movement. Sounds crazy?

Some people also thought that Tai Ji not effective for self defense. Frankly, I believed that also at the beginning. But, the more I have learned, I realized that I was completely wrong. When you practice Tai Ji, you do it slowly. The slow movement allows you to practice correct forms of Tai Ji and the same time make your basics strong.

The basics of Tai Ji are really important, be patience to build up this. It takes time. When you are really skill in the forms of Tai Ji and the basics you can use it fast; in this case you can use it as self defence. But, to do this you really need a good instructor. I’m luck to have one. During the lesson, he taught us how to use Tai Ji’s forms to defence ourselves. To be frank, all of us have our eyes opened. Tai Ji is a martial art.

Don’t underestimate the Tai Ji, learn it properly and try to understand the concepts behind. You will definitely benefit from it.

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Partial video clips of the Tai Ji I have perfomanced. For full video, here

Christmas is approaching, start from now there are many small Christmas parties will held at many places. Yesterday, Tukru Centre for Biotechnology had this small Christmas party at Academic hall of Åbo Akademi University. Yup, I was there, don’t miss it. Christmas party of this year was a bit special to me. Thanks to my colleagues gave me a chance; they volunteered me to perform Tai Ji during this party.

I modified the 24 steps and 88 steps of Yang style Tai Ji Quan for this event. During the party, I was nervous before the performance although I have been practiced it for a week time. The Christmas foods were great and delicious. But, I can’t enjoy them very much. Well, I finished the Tai Ji performance a couple of seconds earlier than the background music. Fortunately, the response from the audiences was positive. I think they like it. My colleagues told that was a good show. Thank you very much, Kiitos.


Video clips of the Tai Ji I perfomanced during Christmas party<

To know more about Christmas foods I have on yesterday night, please have a look on this post, Christmas party and Christmas foods.



The Academic hall of Åbo Akademi University


Christmas foods and gift I got ~ a bottle of Glogi


Santa Claus arrived!

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