Lesser known fact I decided a few months ago to pick up tai-chi. There wasn't a definate reason why, but it was a good idea at the time. Let me tell you, even though I hit up the gym two times a week this "tai chi stuff" was a nifty work out on my joints, balance, and flexability. The fairly linear movements of hip sleds, lat machines, rows, and etc did not assist in the the twisting and circular movements of tai chi. After a bit I become a bit more accustom to it, and life is grand.

To get myself ready for the long solo form practice I have been re-plying the warm up, then the warm ups plus the three basic forms, and last night I moved on to: warm ups plus three basic forms plus circling.

w00t for me.. a few more days of getting the circling habit down I will start the tai chi quan solo form.. which has something like a hundred different moves.