Tai-chi is actually a martial art.It's familar 2 a lot of ppl in it's Yang style health variant but trust me it's just as much a martial art & can be practiced just as fast as any animal style gung-fu,karate or silat style.Look I'm saying this right now so I won't gleeful get carried away in explaining about it,more.
It's pretty unlikely that I'll find someone in Hamilton,Ontario that'll teach me martial style Tai-chi.Maybe when Keanu Reeves Tai-chi movie is out but until then I think the best I could do is sign up 4 the health variant & thru a combo of internet & other looks ups improv enuff 2 autodidact myself in2 the martial style of it.Even that would take years.Take years long like my other scenerio.
If I had taken up health variant Tai-chi when I was little kid (yes even with my old hip problem back then) it would help me eventually develop in2 the martial style.Maybe with enuff speed,ideal form,accuracy & pressure like Jet Li in "Twin warriors"
.More importantly those breathing excercise would have benefitted my brain greatly.I wonder about my breathing & heart patterns sometimes.That and drinking a TON more water on a consistent basis then I had throughout most of my life when I only drank as much as I felt I needed.Both having air 2 my brain & a life-bringing coolant like water prob.would have helped me 2 not have the underconnectivtiy I might have.