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Thanks JE

Is Green Plus, in tablet or drink form? I must research this one. Does anybody know of any good websites on Tai Chi or Quigong, it would help to get a better understanding. Any help greatly appreciated

I take capsules, but you can buy it as a powder to mix with water and drink.

Will see if I can find a good website on Tai Chi. I am not sure I am spelling Quigong correctly.

This site looks good. http://www.worldtaichiday.org/

I am going to look for Green Plus info since I am curious

My dog has great vitamins+ plus stuff. They seem to be working for his painful arthritis so I am looking into each ingrediant.
Haven't tried them

Went to a Tai Chi class today, and was able to follow along surprisingly well. I was heartened. But now my upper back is a little sore. And before you say I was doing it wrong, I was doing it very gently in class -- it's just that I am not used to any kind of exercise, and not used to having good posture.

What were you treated for Bubble? You don't say ...

JEllen, I know what you mean about posture - well, sort of, anyway. I've been doing yoga for over three years now, and it takes a while to develop the awareness to your body that tells you when you are over-stressing things.
In general, you must be _very_ aware of your lower back when you are doing any sort of arching. Tuck in your navel and your sacrum (this is what is called in yoga a Mulabanda) to make sure you are not hurting yourself by mistake!

Tai Chi is more vigorous then you might expect! If you were doing it right, you'd have had a straight back and would have been doing a lot of turning from the hips (remember that! Turn the hips, not the shoulders!). Also - a difficult thing is to keep reminding youself to drop your shoulders. Don't keep them tense. The arms are meant to move independently, so the shoulder joints need to be nice and loose.

So you'll have done 'Grasp bird's tail', then. You're meant to be deflecting a blow, stepping to one side and then either pulling your opponent over in their direction of travel - or breaking their arm between your two hands.

(Do you know what style you're doing? I've done Yang styles and Wu)

I think we did Yang form.

So all very flowing.

In Wu style, we did it two ways. Flowing, like Yang - but also broken down into individual movements. We had to count out movements in sets of three in Cantonese: 'Yat Yee Saa' It was useful. They were teaching responses to particular attacks. You learnt that if a drunk guy was lunging at yout face, you made a certain move...

Also, in the class, some of the more experienced folk did Tai Chi sword or spear. Great to watch!

My son has just got his first Tae Kwon Do suit. He looks way cool!

Just found this about acupuncture:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4493011.stm

with it all, hope it helps.

zdt

Cool article, thanks Terri!

Ed, that's neat that your son is into Tae Kwon Do!