Hi, A friend told me about a post on this forum about Pilates on Tao. I did a search but the link appears broken. Any ideas ??? My friend mentioned about pilates being good for improving breathing which in diving is a good thing. Not diving so much lately Iv'e become an air pig ha ha ha,and I have never associated pilates with this. I just thought it was a fancy name for yoga

Cheers for the help

Hi,

Yes the posting was removed as 'advertising' - sorry.

In the post I mentioned that I (owner of the Pilates-ChiangMai Studio), will be visiting Koh Tao for 6 weeks.

There is an ad on ThaiVisa classified.

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About Pilates and diving. Pilates develops a great control over breath that allows people to increase their lung capacity dramatically (and quickly).

When I started diving 5 years ago, I was able to apply all sorts of Pilates principles to my diving. The breath was easy - I immediately was a relatively low user of air - people ran out way before me. Stops you being an 'air-pig'!

Also, the Pilates, with its focus on 'core stability' helped me find my horizontal positioning very easily.

Pilates and Yoga are similar, but Pilates focuses on core and breath in a much different way from Yoga. Pilates was developed last century by a German man (Joe Pilates), who had studied Yoga and martial arts, and came up with his own 'rational', scientific, and 'modern' form of movement-oriented yoga. It was such a powerful method that the German army asked Joe Pilates to train the army (he refused and moved in 1926 to New York)!

Great stuff - dancers and top athletes have been doing Pilates for decades. Lately it has become much more mainstream...

Cheers, Mark

And indeed using the forum to advertise is against the rules.

Marks ad can be found here in Classifieds

http://classifieds.thaivisa.com/hobbies/sp...-tao-19544.html