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Q: Are you a tai chi master?

Are you very, very good at tai chi?  Have you been recognized as a master of tai chi?

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I'm actually a long-standing taiqi master and I've won dozens upon dozens of awards.

Helps keep me peaceful.

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Yes, yes, I am. My skills are beyong reproach. I have the smooth moves of a cat and the grace of a swan.

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My tai chi instructor told me to loose weight because he said that persons with corpulent frames, and he defined that as anything over 170 Chinese jin, would have trouble maintaining grace and dignity in the sport.  So I had to loose 5 jin to please him.  I wonder if it is true what he says that on corpulent frames tai chi is not graceful.  The students with me in the tai chi class tend to be of medium frame and decidedly not overweight build.

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I'm as smooth as sandpaper and have the grace of a walrus on land. 

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No, but I af quite adept at Walther PPK, Taurus, Colt and Smith & Wesson.wink

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Nope, but I Electric Slide and Hustle like a champ!

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So I guess that I can gather that a good number of the foreigners on this site haven't either tried nor mastered tai chi.  It's a shame -- it's a really esthetically please sport and/or art form.

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Diffrent strokes buddy, diffrent strokes.

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Agreed.

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Yes. I am, actually.

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I am not a tai chi master but becoming a master at anything takes years and years of dedication. It would take me 10 years to become a master of tai chi and it's something I wouldn't be that interested in, but I would like to learn more about this and what it's like to be a Tai Chi master. I wonder if there are tai chi masters that you can talk to and if students here look up to them as they look up to teachers, scientists and the president in the same way.

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