Is it true that some people who do tai chi practice with large pots of water?

i heard it from a guy who did tai chi, but i can't find information on it online|||The guy must've seen one too many Jet Li movies. I remember a scene in the movie "Tai Chi Master" where he trained by swirling a big vat full of water. Same thing with Donnie Yen in "Drunken Tai Chi" I could be wrong, but I think it's more of a personal preference thing for solo practice, a creative way of training if you don't have a partner.|||There are a number of old training methods that the Chinese and Japanese would employ for the purpose of enhancing their training and development. Some of these included things like training in thigh high water or under a water fall as well as training while standing and balancing atop of rocks and posts. They would also make use of various common tools and items used for living to also accomplish this. Black Belt magazine has had a number of articles on this over the years and some books out there on TMA also touch on these aspects.





Clay jars filled with varying amounts of water were used in Chinese martial arts for developing a person's tendon and hand, wrist, and forearm strength for instance by moving while gripping them with the finger tips over the mouth of the jar and was referred to as clay jar training. This is what you might be referring to.|||Well its not a Chen Style Taijiquan training method. I saw it in a Jet Li movie but that was a movie.