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Old 05-07-2003, 02:41 AM   #19
rpnp
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Actually, tai chi as I've seen it practiced most places would have to be the gentlest.
I have never practiced tai chi, but my sensei teaches it in his dojo. From what i have seen tai chi is very deadly and not even gentle.I don't know how any one can say its a gentle art.When i first started aikido i thought tai chi was just for health, but when i seen it in application it was scary.

I would have to agree with most of yall and say BJJ is the gentlest art i have seen. But don't underestimate a BJJ practitioner.

p.s. i would read a book called "Steal My Art: the life and times of a tai chi master" by: Stuart Alve Olson if you still think tai chi is a gentle art. Liang Tung Tsai did some amazing things!

Robert Parker

"All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts."

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