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- From: avery@netcom.com (Avery Ray Colter)
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- Subject: Re: Look at how I used to look when I was fat...
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- Date: 22 Jul 92 04:30:31 GMT
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- fredj@wang.com (Fast Freddie) writes:
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- >If it were not for Karate 3x/week i'd be dead now :-(
- >Freddie
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- Sometimes I wonder why something on the order of Taijiquan hasn't
- been considered in any major way. I've been studying that repertoire
- myself, and the slow, graceful, grounded style, favoring an intensive
- introspective training of coordination over a lot of flashy moves,
- and favoring moves lower to the ground than a lot of the more aerial
- techniques, would be very well favored to those who would have a high
- risk of injury from high impact exercises.
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- Reports are that the "Huge Extent Fist" (a rough translation of TJQ)
- has been the topic of a lot of research recently in geriatric therapy,
- with what look to be some very positive results. One wonders whether
- it would have some similar results for fat people, especially considering
- the imagery of "huge extention" which permeates the development of the
- movements.
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- If I have any say, it will be an avenue that is looked into. Any structured
- moving activity that places a lot of emphasis on integrating mind and body
- would I think work wonders in a person with a history of mind and body at war.
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- "Heaviness is the root of lightness; calmness is the controller of haste"
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