Can Tai Chi Really Slow Ageing?

[slowEdie]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/tai-chi-health-benefits_n_5410470.html

[kenneth fish]

No, it just seems to take forever when you are doing taiji. Similar results may be obtained by watching paint dry.

[yeniseri]

I like what they are saying and it is positive but the impression of tai chi, that it is just an all encompassing art is way off base.

[lazyboxer]

No.

But it can improve balance and reduce risk of shock-induced premature death from a fall.

[Dmitri]

Nothing can slow aging; that's just entropy. But movement (like walking or tai chi or dancing or whatever) can increase your chances of feeling (relatively) better as you age.

[dspyrido]

Cleaning your house is probably more effective. Less chance your spouse will throw something at you causing a head injury because you are spending too much time with your tai chi peeps trying to prolong your life.

[klonk]

No.

But it can improve balance and reduce risk of shock-induced premature death from a fall.

This is indeed a very great benefit! By sharing a mix of simple ZZ and basic tjq movement I helped a very elderly person stop falling over, with a consequent reduction in injuries, and I feel that was worth her time and mine. It may have gained her three or four or five extra years.

[wiesiek]

can you live 250 years? -no
but
when I look at the same age, or even younger fox around , and compare how they move and look,
I have tell`ya -yes,
not to mention the Doc external ...

hmmm,
i `m not really the t.j. guy , dough

[johnwang]

The following will help you to slow down your ageing:

- Never said, "I'm old and Taiji is the only thing that I do now."
- Run behind a pretty young girl on the beach.
- Stay away from old people.
- Run, jump, dance, flip in the air, and enjoy your life.
- speed up your work out and force your heart to be strong.
- Do leg lifting drills every day (as shown in the following clip).
- ...

[Taste of Death]

The following will help you to slow down your ageing:

- Never said, "I'm old and Taiji is the only thing that I do now."
- Run behind a pretty young girl on the beach.
- Stay away from old people.
- Run, jump, dance, flip in the air, and enjoy your life.
- speed up your work out and force your heart to be strong.
- Do leg lifting drills every day (as shown in the following clip).
- ...

If one wants to know how to grow old gracefully ask a graceful older person how they do it.

#2 is good advice but I prefer to run towards them.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p8TUWilKb6M

[Bao]

IMHO, there is some truth that Tai Chi can help reaching old age and stay healthy long. Tai Chi really encourage to use both body and brain. Also, in slow practice, there's a certain focus and awareness demanded in Tai Chi practice that seems to be good for the nervous system. This kind of very strong focus and awareness is definitively not to be found in cleaning or in walking. Many newcomers to my classes, younger or older, have felt quite exhausted throughout the first few classes. Some people even get dizzy and need to take a break. Some people are surprised they can get so hot and sweaty, even people who is used to work out hard. And all of what they have done is just relaxing and focusing. IMHO, there's definitively something to IMA practice. Many things can surely be found in other practices, but some arts of IMA combines a certain elements, IMO, in quite a unique manner.

[wiesiek]

Bao, it is very careful statement ,
I would go berserker, and say that there is no better approach to training than ima ,

[wiesiek]

and
i vote for JW # 2 advice too,
in
both ways -from the back and the front, depends of the weather
ps
ability to uchimatten anyone in the age 100, is valuable even more!

[Bao]

Bao, it is very careful statement ,
I would go berserker, and say that there is no better approach to training than ima ,

Here's a very intellectual crew. Emotional outbursts won't get any point across or encourage people to think about ... uh ...the reality of stuff...

[bartekb]

no disrespect but quite a lot of famous tai chi famous masters did not live that long, quite a lot of them were also overweight especially during their latter days.

This kind of very strong focus and awareness is definitively not to be found in cleaning or in walking.

awarnes is present when its trained. Zen can be practiced while walking - kinhin.
Any conscious movement is better than no movement but Im not sure tai chis forte its preventing aging.