Playing tai chi, everyone must have seen it. But what is it like to play tai chi underwater? On July 8, the World Taijiquan Championship Taiji Sword Champion Long Jiao'er posted a video of her playing Tai Chi underwater on the Internet, which was praised countless times in just 30 seconds, and netizens left messages: "Beautiful and sassy!" "Blockbuster is visual sense", "Underwater Tai Chi, with Soft Ke Gang", "Flying like a frightening, gentle dragon". In the video, I saw Long Jiao'er dressed in a white light gauze dress, wearing a black belt around his waist, standing under the water, calm and relaxed, one move and one style, rigid and soft. A punch hit the water, and countless small bubbles spread out, as if the water had been scattered, full of strength. "It was actually the first time I had played tai chi underwater and the first time I had opened my eyes underwater, and it was a fun experience."
Long Jiao'er told the Red Star News reporter with some excitement that the video of shooting this underwater tai chi was inspired by the underwater Chinese dance "Prayer" of Henan Satellite TV. On the afternoon of July 5, Long Jiao'er called a friend and makeup artist who would take underwater photography to shoot in a swimming pool in Chengdu for more than 4 hours, "Someone asked me if I had a planning team, I really didn't, it was just fun to try." It just so happens that I can swim, I happen to be able to do tai chi again, it just so happens that I know my underwater photographer friends, everything is just right, there is no prior arrangement, I think I will do it. ”
Long Jiao'er told Red Star News that as an authentic Chengdu native, she began practicing tai chi at the age of 8 and has been practicing tai chi for 19 years now, although she has a lot of experience, shooting underwater is not an easy task. When you first enter the water, your body floats uncontrollably. In order to make herself more stable when standing in the water, she hung four iron blocks around her waist, totaling 10 kilograms. "You see that when I open my eyes in the water, I seem to have a look, but I couldn't see anything at that time." Long Jiao'er said frankly.
Long Jiao'er talked about the feeling of playing tai chi underwater, Long Jiao'er said that the presence of real resistance is extremely strong, the underwater resistance is more than 770 times that of land, and some actions are made and will be slightly deformed. Still, she's exploring the relationship between water and strength, "Lately I've been swimming a lot, so that in tai chi practice, when I feel my body turning, people really feel like they're moving in the water." The palms of the hands attract each other like two disks, and as long as we imagine that there is water all around us, and where the fingers dance, we can feel the presence of air. The 27-year-old Long Jiao'er hopes that he can attract more people to pay attention to Tai Chi through this video, and also let everyone understand Tai Chi and fall in love with Tai Chi culture.
Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star News reporter Qiao Xueyang Zeng Qi