Aikido and Tai Chi
(Extracted from Aikido-L)

Date:    Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:13:46 -0500
From:    "Thomas Councill, Jr."
Subject: Aikido and Tai Chi

Anybody on the list practice Aikido and Tai Chi at the same time?

Do the arts clash?


What do you think practicing both are doing to you mentally?

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Date:    Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:57:54 +0800
From:    Anthony Wong Onn Yong
Subject: Re: Aikido and Tai Chi

My Aikido conncept is same with Taichi. Of course, Aikido and Taichi are solf and relax. Then, Aikido and Taichi purposes are unite everybody as a family.

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Date:    Thu, 28 Mar 2002 11:26:54 -0000
From:    mark greenwood
Subject: Re: Aikido and Tai Chi

Hello
i am presently studying aikido and taichi and i would like to think they compliment each other. (maybe time will tell). I have been studying taichi for two years, and just under a year in aikido.Both seem to be a system for self defense, but i have found that to look at them that way you are missing the bigger picture.

Both have the element of chi/ki, both advocate never attacking.  alot of the postures seem to interelate.  I have also studied chinese kickboxing and taekwon-do, and this seems the case there also.

Both seem to stress proper body posture to maximise effectiveness of technique, and not brute strength.  Power coming from the centre. But these are personal views.

As for what it is doing to me mentally, well i've never needed to use any of my training, so mentally it must be doing some good! I don't think i'm mad,
well not fully :)

regards
mark

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Date:    Thu, 28 Mar 2002 16:35:32 EST
From:
Subject: Re: Aikido and Tai Chi

In a message dated 3/28/2002 10:38:30 AM Central Standard Time, writes:
> Anybody on the list practice Aikido and Tai Chi at the same time?
>
> Do the arts clash?

I've done both for 7 years and tai chi longer than that.  They compliment each other quite nicely.

> What do you think practicing both are doing to you mentally?
>
> It isn't confusing, if tha'ts what you're worried about.  There's not much chance I'd do one when I meant to do the other.

Patty

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