- Before we start Tai Chi,
- (Ned) Thanks to Google Play for sponsoring
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Now, back to the Tai Chi video.
- (Both) Ad Free
- (Instructor) 1, 2, 3
- (Everyone) HA
- Today the Try Guys are learning
the ancient art of Tai Chi.
(gentle wind music)
- Tai Chi. I know it's a very slow moving form of exercise?
- Ha
- I feel like Jaden Smith in the Karate kid.
- It looks like really slow choreography.
- What wait I lost track.
- Punch, punch, block
- I made a Jaden Smith joke and I fucked up.
(heavy exhaling)
- I know Tai Chi is popular with elderly people.
(heavy exhaling)
- I think when I'm older I would love doing some Tai Chi.
- Is Tai Chi a verb or a noun? Hm
- I also love about Tai Chi is that it,
you always look like a Dragon Ball Z character.
(upbeat action music)
- I don't know, but I'm excited to learn.
(electric guitar)
- (Eugene) A lot of people think, especially in the west,
that Tai Chi is old Asian ladies in the park.
- You're O for 3, you're not old,
you're not Asian and you're not a lady.
(laughing)
- Okay, so my name is Arthur Babakhanov.
I came here about 8 month ago,
I used to teach in Boston for most of my life,
and I've been doing it for about 15 years believe it or not.
- I am really excited.
I don't actually know much about Tai Chi
but I'm hoping that it can help me.
I was told that it's great for
dealing with back pain, building up strength.
I am a generally anxious and neurotic person.
I could use some mental cleansing, I'm stoked.
- My fear today is that I'm gonna be bored,
from what I know about Tai Chi, very slow.
I don't even like doing Yoga 'cause it's too slow.
- Let's start with the basic.
What is Tai Chi?
- So Tai Chi is actually a form of Martial Arts.
- Oh.
- Oh, it's like fighting?
- It can be used for fighting.
- What!
- What?
- We use it for healing actually, not so much for fighting.
Focus on your finger tips and breathe out.
(exhaling)
- So Marital Arts has two aspects, fast and slow.
Slow one was used for like actually in old days
it was used for cultivating your internal energy.
Breathe in.
(inhaling)
And breathe out.
(heavy exhaling)
And there's a fast Martial Arts
where you use it for self defense.
And when you block, the front hand goes to the hip joints.
Yes, punch twice.
- Whoa, now it's a Martial Art.
- I did not expect this.
- Block.
- What is the history of Tai Chi?
- It's been practiced for centuries,
even thousands years, years old,
but it's a little bit of mystery
who started, and when it started.
The original Tai Chi was not used
for violence, it was used for enlightenment.
For wanting to recover their own,
you know, spirituality and energy.
(clapping)
- Can you run out of Chi or is it always just there?
- Yeah when you die you run outta Chi
(laughing)
- (Arthur) Gotcha.
So they watched different animals, how they move
and they try to imitate in order to, you know, be connected.
Tai Chi can be used for anything actually,
it's all the purpose behind it.
- Make a sandwich?
- Uh if you do really slowly yes.
(laughing)
- Grilled Tai cheese.
- It's the purpose behind it that's what I'm trying to say.
You know these days it's sued for wellness,
in the olds days it was used for self-development,
like cultivating your Chi.
(wind music)
- So today I'm gonna be helping Keith,
reading Aura, and see how his energy condition is.
- So we have this machine,
it works as a bio-feedback machine.
You put your hands there in a few seconds
you'll actually can see your energy field.
- So ,if you have a tendency using
your physical chakra a lot you see red,
and if you're a heart center person who have love,
compassion, and forgiveness, that kinda thing,
you may see the orange color.
Then if you're spiritual, intuitive, and creative person,
then you probably see the blue and purple color.
- What is Chi? Very good question.
I was very curious when I started, what is Chi?
Actually, let me have you, do you want
to have an experience what the Chi feels like?
- (Everyone) Yes.
- Yeah
- All right, so rub your hands like this,
easiest way to feel Chi actually is through you're palms
- Chi, come out Chi
(laughing)
- Now, I want you to move your hands in and out like this.
So try to feel the magnetic sensation between your hands.
- Yeah.
- That is Chi.
- I got nothin.
- You got nothing?
- I got nothin.
- That's freaky. It does feel warm in my hands.
- I want it so bad.
- No, no don't want it.
- I don't want it.
- I want it.
- I speci-, I really don't want it but I'm feeling it.
- How could, I want it.
- (Zach) Now if I have the temptation
to fart right now, is that-
- (Arthur) Go for it.
- (Zach) Is that my Chi?
- (Arthur) Yeah, yeah it's your stagnant Chi coming out.
- Will this look different because I'm Asian?
- Uh, I don't think so.
- Okay, a lot of yellow? No I'm kidding.
(laughing)
- I'm kidding, I'm kidding. I can say it.
- I'm really hoping that today solves all my problems,
with only one session, that'd be awesome,
'cause it's healing and I'd love to be healed.
- Yeah I feel like I have a lot of dark energy.
- Oh, how you know?
- I just always think what are we doing here?
- Oh.
- Why are we even alive if we're
like a disease on the planet.
- You know what I used to think that.
- Yeah, so this'll help me.
(laughing)
- Yeah.
- Things that are bothering me in general,
um I have chronic pain, so back pain
in the Spondylitis lower Arthritis family,
uh I have digestion issues, sometimes
don't poop for days on end, then having trouble sleeping.
I'm a pretty anxious person.
I wake up in pain, quite frequently
and then my mind is racing.
Oh and then I fucked up my shoulder.
Uh, just a lot going on in there,
oh and I also have a cold, so that sucks.
(laughing)
- Well we'll fix it.
- So, this aura reading is gonna show him
the current energy condition before class,
and then he's gonna try the Tai Chi class
and he's gonna change his energy of course,
and then we're gonna see his energy after.
Oh you have big hands.
- I have big hands. Are they too big?
(hums tune)
- Oh so it's metal, it's good too take off you ring.
- Uh oh.
- Just for now.
- That's gonna change things.
(laughing)
- Okay put it on?
- Yeah, and relax your shoulder
(exhaling)
- And then slowly you can release your hand
(mood music)
- Wow, I'm on fire.
(laughing)
- You see a lot of red.
- It's lots of red and then there's yellow.
- Okay.
- I'm the same as Keith, red and yellow-
- I think what you described pretty much,
you know, shows from that aura.
- Yeah.
- Whoa. I look like I'm, I fell into lava.
Anakin! You were the chosen one!
- Yes it's like the exact same.
- So now I can tell why you're all friends.
(laughing)
- It's interesting you can see the yellow,
which is love, heart, you know, heart center.
You can also see the orange color,
which means like creative.
So definitely you want to learn how to release, uh stress.
Somehow this, I think this job kinda matches you.
- Hm
- 'Cause it kind of helps you to express
your creative, you know creative side.
- I need to see you do this.
- Release, release the stress.
- I need to know what it looks like
when a person is balanced and good.
Can you do it?
(laughing)
- Okay.
(calming music)
(explosion)
- Whoa.
- Whoa, it looks so different.
- Are you kidding me?
- What?
- Can we save this?
- It's very balanced.
- Whoa.
- So balanced.
- Look how balanced you are.
- Whoa.
- Oh my goodness.
- (Arthur) So first I will, what we're gonna do
is open up our energy by simply do body tapping.
Has anybody done body tapping before?
- Oh we've tapped a body or two in our time.
- No we haven't.
- Oh my god.
- So we're gonna do the body tapping okay.
And then with your finger tips tap on top of the head.
So like I said wherever you put your focus,
that's where your energy goes.
So like rubbing and tapping your mind goes there,
so when your mind goes there, energy goes there.
So when you tap like this where does your mind go?
- To my chest.
- Yeah, where does your energy go?
- To my chest.
- That's right.
- This sound is familiar.
- (Arthur) What do you think is
the most important thing in Tai Chi?
- The willingness to look silly.
Yes, yes that's a very important one.
- (Keith) Tapping? Smiling?
- (Arthur) Yes! So you want to smile, yes.
- Wait I was never told about smiling.
- How did you get into Tai Chi
and where did your love come from?
- I had some health issues, I was working
for Bank of America doing technical support, a lot of stress
- Oh really?
- was always on the computer, on the phone,
and I felt so uncomfortable in my own body
but I just didn't know why.
Tap also your jaw.
- It feels great.
- (Arthur) Ya it feels good doesn't it.
- I'm enjoying this.
- I myself also suffer from depression and anxiety,
and then there was a center next to my house,
and then it really helped me.
It really boost ups your mood and makes you feel light.
You wanna tap back of the neck too,
there's a lot of tension there so moving some Chi there.
- Oh get back there.
- Get outta there Chi.
- That feeling was so amazing actually,
I just wanted to keep feeling that way.
Good, lots of cracking.
- Like a jazz dance warm-up.
- Right.
(laughing)
(upbeat jazz music)
- No? All right.
- This Tai Chi is recommended by a lot of doctors,
so when you have depression, when you have
low energy and anxiety, when you have back issues.
So it's good for physical wellness,
but it's also good for emotional mental wellness.
- You just described the four pillars of me.
(laughing)
(cheerful music)
- If I don't make a tap that ass joke I'm gonna explode,
- (Arthur) Tap your abdomen a little more.
- I have to say it.
- (Arthur) So we're gonna do something
called Plate balancing, have you ever heard of it?
- No.
- (Arthur) So imagine you have a plate,
it's a fine china so you don't wanna break it.
Ok so go under the hand,
- Ned's wedding wear.
- No.
- (Arthur) Yes, go up and around.
Like that, good job good job.
So this is very good for your shoulder,
and then also you're opening the joints in your wrist.
So you basically don't wanna drop the plate.
- So is that the, the best thing to do is
to keep your other hand behind you,
(smashing noise)
oh I dropped the plate. Shoot.
- (Zach) Ariel's gonna kill you.
- Ariel's gonna be very upset.
- (Arthur) Push the stagnant energy out, breathe out.
(exhaling)
- Get out of here.
- (Arthur) Exhale
- Bye Felicia.
- (Arthur) So we're gonna release the stagnant energy,
you know what's the best way to release
the stagnant energy is through the sound.
When I count to 3 say hike and bring your hands up.
1, 2, 3
- (Everyone) Hike!
- Oh I just, I just farted right when we said hike
(laughing)
- I was hitting it from both sides.
- Now it's called ketchup packeting right,
when your Chi is ex- from both ends.
(laughing)
- I've never heard that before.
- Oh my god.
- That's really ruining my Chi.
- Really, 'cause I'm Chi-ing like crazy over here.
- It's done very slowly because you want to be able
to learn how to quiet down your mind,
and how to feel this life energy
that flows through your body.
Up, your arms a little bent, shoulder level, and then down.
This way it's kind of slow,
it's hard to notice that subtlety when you're moving fast.
Feel the warmth in your hands.
- I do.
- Good.
(ping)
- Keith, I feel it.
- Yeah, I really feel it.
I felt very balanced and at the end
my hands were like on fire, like very hot.
And every time my hands were passing I could very much feel.
- (Michelle) Did you feel the energy?
- Yeah, yeah.
- (Arthur) Can you feel the force?
- It's weird.
- This is the force?
- (Arthur) That's the force.
- Are we cultivating midochlorians?
Every time I make a joke I lose it a little bit.
- You know how people say vibes, it's the same thing.
- Ah.
- Oh.
- You're telling me, that if I'm vibing, I'm Chi-ing?
- Pretty much.
(laughing)
- (Arthur) Inhale, to the side, exhale.
(exhaling)
- Back of the head, inhale, push out to the side, hands up.
- (Ned) I wasn't sure what to expect going into it.
I was afraid I might get bored, but it was really fun.
- (Arthur) 1, 2, 3
- (Everyone) Hike.
- (Arthur) Nice.
- I kinda feel like, a little stoned,
but not in a debilitating way,
and like a life is good way.
(laughing)
- (Arthur) Rub your hands, relax your feet.
How do you guys feel?
- (Everyone) Good.
- Also this is the first time I've ever sat relaxed.
I never sit like this, I sit like stick straight.
- Wow.
- Like my mom's behind me telling me
to roll my shoulders back, you know,
you know how it is.
- Mhm.
- Good posture gets you better husbands.
(wedding march)
- I feel like my hands are magnets right now.
- Yeah.
- Like they can't get too close together.
- (Arthur) Right, that is your Chi.
- This was awesome! It was way better than Yoga.
Yoga sucks.
(laughing)
(calming music)
(explosion)
(error noise)
- You look brighter.
(laughing)
- Pretty similar
(laughing)
- So Red.
- My pie graph got a little bit better.
- Yeah and then,
- Still pretty out of balance.
- Yes,
- But better.
- I have even more red now.
- Look we all wanted this to be a
a glorious rainbow at the end of the video.
It's silly to assume that just one session,
boom I'm gonna have an even pie chart.
Even after doing this once I can see how much more
in touch with yourself you can be.
So I look forward to doing this again,
and touching myself all over.
- So that means you have to come again.
(exhale)
- I will come again.
- I want us to all tap on Ned,
and we'll give him our calming energy.
- And this'll calm some en-
(heavy exhale)
- What if we each put a finger down?
(laughing)
- Can we see what the Try Guys energy is like?
- (Eugene) Yeah so you do one hand over here with Zach,
and Ned you do split with me.
(mumbles)
- (Michelle) I've never done this. Oh my gosh.
- (Eugene) Me and you here.
- (Ned) Okay.
(calming music)
(explosion)
- (Everyone) Whoa!
- White! We got white!
- We pure baby, we pure,
- Wow.
- We're enlightened, we're enlightened.
- That's the balance right there,
(yelling)
- That's the balance
- (Michelle) Wow.
- We're so spiritual together.
- That's why we're a team.
- (Everyone) Yay.
(clapping)
- I think this is the first Try Guys video
where we all are interested in doing this again.
- Yeah I'm really interested in doing this again.
- I never try having a four people aura color.
- Well that's why we're called the Try Guys.
- Very interesting.
- Yeah.
- We're thrilled to be anyone's first.
- Zach the number of
(shout)
sexual jokes you've made in the Tai Chi class.
- That, that I didn't mean.
(upbeat guitar music)
- I'm a lil' ball of chaos.
By brain and my body together form one chaotic mess.
You know when you put your headphones in your pocket
and then you take it out 10 seconds later,
and you're like 'how did this get so impossibly tangled?'
That's my brain.
Well everyone has air pods now, you don't (bleep) get it.