It’s been some time since I’ve taken a tai chi class. The fundamentals are still there and I still do my exercises. Long story short; at my local gym are medicine balls. My question is to avid practitioners and sifus is: can the implement of using the medicine ball improve ballance and technique? The imaginary ball vs weighted ball if you will.
tai chi trains using stone ball up to 50 pounds
bawang is correct, but they don’t start that heavy.
Read Rekindling the Lost Art of Tai Chi Ball By David Grantham in our NOB+DEC 2015 issue.
There is also this thread: Taiji Ball
you have to tense your abdominal muscle when using weighted ball or face injury