[Chris Correia]

Originally Posted by Dave Chesser

Part of the problem is that martial arts and fitness aren't the same thing. Sure, some of the traditional warmups are outdated perhaps but others are there for a reason, even if the reason doesn't make sense by current exercise science standards. I wouldn't go throwing out stuff without a good reason.

Having said that, I myself have included a lot of stuff like planks, side planks, etc in the warmup for the taichi class that i teach. Many of those movements are very beneficial to beginning taichi players. But the static stretching is also very useful for taichi even if dynmaic stretching is in vogue right now.

Yep. And welcome!