Tai Chi

Bonnie Kaye, Inside Fitness
Sara’s City Workout Convention, Chicago
Scott Cole/Tai Chi instructor
New moves for an ancient artform.

Intro:
“Hi, I’m Bonnie Kaye. Tai Chi originated in China more than a thousand years ago, but new facets of this ancient martial art are still being discovered in the West.”
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When you think “Tai Chi”—tai, meaning movement, and chi meaning energy, you probably think of something like this. But there’s more to it.
SOT Scott Cole 
Scott: “As you see later from the slow, a move like this, the martial set would be that.” Bonnie: “That’s Tai Chi, what you just did?” 
Scott: “That is Tai Chi. It’s not just people moving slowly in the woods next to a tree.” 
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Practitioners of the art believe if your “chi” or life energy is blocked, you’ll be unbalanced mentally, physically, and spiritually. Scott’s class begins slowly then picks up the pace with upbeat music and quicker, more forceful moves.
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Sot Scott Cole
“So all of the Tai Chi masters were building energy with their students and they do fast sets, they do weapons, they do something called push hands, which is a competition where you try get your partner to be off balance, but you stay connected. So there’s this whole beautiful realm of Tai Chi America hasn’t seen yet.” 
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Scott says that fast or slow, practicing tai chi can lead to an overall better quality of life.
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Sot Scott Cole 
“Everything from better sex to more alive throughout your day and energy carried throughout the day. Better than Viagra, I tell ya! (BK laughs)
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All that, and it’s good exercise too. For Fitness Magazine, I’m Bonnie Kaye.

 


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