Friday, June 09, 2006

Play the guitar

You mean I can do tai chi - and play the guitar? Oh, it's like playing the guitar... :-)
Haven't heard about that move in tai chi though. I thought they had more lyrical names like "brushing the horses mane", "relentlessly twisting the spinal cord", and "watching the gonads go out the window".
I'm having a hard time seeing manic rock guitar playing and stage diving in the same setting as elegant, flowing tai chi. And really: did they have guitars in China several hundred of years ago? Wow!
Another thing - just the other day tai chi was 1500 years old (see post: 'any one older?'). Just in that short period of time it has lost 600 years. I guess tomorrow it will be the newest thing - to be invented next week by some guitar playing horse fellow in China?
Oh, I'm not done yet...
Who's gonna tell the folks doing tai chi as a fighting form that they can't do that fast thing? You see "it's purely a health exercise now"!
Slow down dude - play the guitar!

Story:
Roll back, play the guitar, step to the seven stars or stand like a garden cockroach. This is not an attempt to write a rock number. These are names of Tai Chi movements, the ancient Chinese exercise.

Created by Taoist Chan Sang Feng about 600 years ago, Tai Chi, which means supreme energy, began as a martial art, but is purely a health exercise now.

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