With a growing trend in learning Tai Chi Chuan, more and more people have started or made plans for Tai Chi Chuan study. But some of them may get some false conception for the lack of understanding of the essence of it. The three tips below may help you to get a clear idea of how to go on your study.
With a growing trend in learning Tai Chi Chuan, more and more people have started or made plans for Tai Chi Chuan study. However, not everybody, every place is suitable for practicing Tai Chi Chuan. The following content will guide you more.
Choose a good weather
Tai Chi Chuan is a kind of sport caring for life and exercising, so it should be done avoiding wind and cold. There is a saying in China, which says: avoid wind as to avoid arrow. When one practices Tai Chi Chuan, he would relax both inner and outer part of the body. Sometimes there is some sweat. So it's easy for the learners to catch a cold. This is called by the traditional Chinese medical science as "inner invaded by foreign evil". So it is not suitable or dangerous to exercise Tai Chi Chuan in rain or wind. But if you have more clothes and wouldn't have been rained in the open air you might exercise it too. There is a saying in the past that practicing Kungfu in the rain or in the wind would be helpful to improve your health condition, however, that was utterly scientific groundless.
Find a good place
One of the advantages of Tai Chi Chuan exercising is the simplicity in choosing exercising place. You may perform some movements at any time and any places. If the room is large enough, you might exercise. When we say large enough, we do not mean to practice the complete routine from the start form to the end. If so, there are some limitations in the choice of place. But at least you may practice some movements smoothly and practice the whole routine segment by segment. If you have to keep moving from one place to another, you couldn't keep it continuously. Thus wouldn't be able to embody the exercising property of Tai Chi Chuan routines. Under such circumstances, you'd better just exercise single movements in one place. When the place is wide, you then exercise it continuously. In one word, just take measures suited to local conditions. At last there is an important factor which must be guaranteed when you practice Tai Chi Chuan indoors, namely, ventilation must be good.
Check your health condition when practicing Tai Chi
As we all known, Tai Chi Chuan is a kind of very gentle sport. It is not only helpful for improving and keeping health, but also for the recovery of chronic diseases. However, not all people can practice Tai Chi Chuan without limitation.
For example, when a chronic disease patient practices Tai Chi Chuan, he should choose the suitable one according to the kind of chronic disease. An ordinary chronic disease patient should choose a kind of Tai Chi Chuan which is slower and unhurried with small rising and falling, such as the simplified 24 Form Tai Chi Chuan. Also one should exercise it aiming at the physical condition. In a word, you need to choose the most proper kind of Tai Chi Chuan according to your heath condition of your body.