living room book accumulation point<\/a> for years). As part of a recent project to finish some of the books I’ve started (and which have accumulated on side tables), I decided to power the rest of the way through it.<\/p>\nYeah, it’s a couple hundred pages of mindful walking practices. And although they have different names and “goals,” basically it’s monitor your breathing and walk. I’m not really the target market for the book–presumably, it was targeted to older or inactive people who had seen tai chi in the news or in the park or whatnot and wanted to get something out of it but didn’t fancy themselves martial artists. Man, do you remember when Tai Chi was a thing? It was everywhere for a while, what, twenty-five or thirty years ago? And now I don’t see it anywhere, in any news stories, et cetera. Did China actually finish stomping it out? I posed this question on Facebook for my friends, but I’m not sure my Facebook contacts have seen it.<\/p>\n
I did get something out of this book, lo, those many years ago when I started reading it. It talks about posture when running, you know, leaning forward a bit (fun fact: I used to lean too far forward when sprinting, in college, which led to me perfecting my shoulder roll before studying bujitsu–I would run, topple over, roll over my shoulder, and come up still running until I learned not to do that). I mean, I do this when running outdoors (or did, when I ran, and ran outdoors). But when running on treadmills, I would keep my body vertical, maintaining distance from the controls of the treadmill, which was suboptimal. So I corrected that before an indoor triathlon–which also indicates this book was started but incomplete for years. I have not done a triathlon, indoor or out, for over a year now (the indoor ones are drying up, I think, and the outdoor ones are sprint length or longer). So: Maybe I am rapidly growing into the target market for this book after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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You know, gentle reader, for a long while the contents of ABC Books’ martial arts section included (and merely was<\/em> often) two books on Chi Walking. I mention it on many occasions, and I have even mentioned buying\/owning two books on Tai Chi walking, but history indicates that I bought the two remaining books in the martial arts section in 2022<\/a>, which were this one<\/em> book on Tai Chi walking and a book on mixed martial arts (Raw Combat<\/em>) which I have yet to read. Which leaves a bit of a mystery: Do I have another book on Tai Chi walking in the stacks, or do I have two more that I bought later?<\/em> Come to my estate sale early to find out!<\/p>\n