Can Tai Chi please be added as an activity choice in Garmin Connect? Currently there is no suitable option. I choose "Cardio" on my watch, but I would like to be able to adjust the activity type on Garmin Connect to reflect the actual activity I actually performed, i.e. Tai Chi in this case. Maybe a more broad "Traditional Martial Arts" would be more enticing.
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In the Connect website and app, I only see an activity type option for Mixed Martial Arts (and not Martial Arts), which is perhaps why OP specified "Traditional Martial Arts" (to distinguish it from MMA).
Sorry, I think I missed your original point, which seems to be that you don't think Tai Chi is a real martial art. I thought you were suggesting that a generic Martial Arts category already existed in Connect.
I think there should be some way of adding custom types.
People have also been asking for custom strength exercises for years, but Garmin doesn't seem interested.
Sorry, I think I missed your original point, which seems to be that you don't think Tai Chi is a real martial art.
It seems it was a martial art but isn't really any longer. The yin/yang nature of this seems appropriate.
In the Connect website and app, I only see an activity type option for Mixed Martial Arts (and not Martial Arts), which is perhaps why OP specified "Traditional Martial Arts" (to distinguish it from MMA).
I know some of the activities have properties specific to the activity but is there anything that particularly distinguishes MMA?
That is, what issue would there be using the MMA type for Tai Chi? The only obvious issue is that somebody might be doing multiple martial arts and would likely want to separate them. I see some other issues but they don't seem important. I could be missing something.
People have also been asking for custom strength exercises for years, but Garmin doesn't seem interested.
Yeah. But I think that might be much more complicated than what is really needed for something like Tai Chi. It seems like "custom strength exercises" would frequently miss something and ever really satisfy anybody. (But I could be missing something.)
I know some of the activities have properties specific to the activity but is there anything that particularly distinguishes MMA?
That is, what issue would there be using the MMA type for Tai Chi? The only obvious issue is that somebody might be doing multiple martial arts and would likely want to separate them. I see some other issues but they don't seem important. I could be missing something.
Bc MMA is a specific sport as a opposed to a generic categorization of martial arts? In other words, "mixed martial arts" doesn't just mean you're doing multiple martial arts, it refers to a specific sport which incorporates multiple martial arts. Besides, afaik Tai Chi isn't one of the martial arts that informs MMA.
Similar to how a triathlon is a specific type of competition with specific rules, it doesn't just refer to doing 3 kinds of endurance sports in one "activity".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_martial_arts
Mixed martial arts (MMA)[a] is a full-contact fighting sport based on striking and grappling; incorporating techniques from various combat sports from around the world.
That is, what issue would there be using the MMA type for Tai Chi? The only obvious issue is that somebody might be doing multiple martial arts and would likely want to separate them.
Because Tai Chi isn't MMA? Similarly, ppl could use the Tennis activity profile for pickelball, but they probably don't want to, even though it doesn't matter.
Having said that, nothing prevents users from categorizing karate, jiu jitsu, or whatever as MMA.
Speaking of using the "wrong" activity profile for whatever sport you're doing, Garmin apparently used to have the philosophy that they wouldn't provide sport-specific activity profiles if they didn't really have sport-specific functionality to go along with it. So if you wanted to record something like basketball, the idea was you'd just use the Cardio profile. In recent years, Garmin has seemingly gone in the other direction, and provided a ton of sport-specific activity profiles (Basketball, Padel, PIckleball, etc.), even though these profiles typically have absolutely no functionality that's specific to the sport. It seems that's what users demanded - I guess the idea is people like categorizing their activities by sport, even if they don't get sport-specific functionality, and they prefer not to change the activity type in Connect after the fact.
Asking for Tai Chi or even Traditional Martial Arts activity profiles (or Connect activity types) isn't inconsistent with this trend.
I realize what MMA is and I realize that Tai Chi isn't part of it.
Having said that, nothing prevents users from categorizing karate, jiu jitsu, or whatever as MMA.
This is exactly what I'm suggesting. It appears it would only be a problem if you did multiple of these.
Asking for Tai Chi or even Traditional Martial Arts activity profiles (or Connect activity types) isn't inconsistent with this trend.
No one is suggesting otherwise. The issue is what to do while you wait for that to happen.
Garmin has seemingly gone in the other direction, and provided a ton of sport-specific activity profiles (Basketball, Padel, PIckleball, etc.), even though these profiles typically have absolutely no functionality that's specific to the sport. It seems that's what users demanded - I guess the idea is people like categorizing their activities by sport, even if they don't get sport-specific functionality, and they prefer not to change the activity type in Connect after the fact.
It's a reasonable "demand". What doesn't make sense is not to provide a way to allow the user to add this types of things.
Missing the point.
I realize what MMA is and I realize that Tai Chi isn't part of it.
If one does Tai Chi and not MMA, why can't you use the MMA to categorize your Tai Chi activities?
I already addressed that implicit point. Because users care about categorizing their activities correctly, even if there are no sport-specific "benefits" for doing so.
That's why I wrote a whole thing about how Garmin used to not provide "useless" / superfluous activity types (e.g. clones of Cardio or Strength with a different title), and now they provide a ton of those, apparently due to user demand.
Having said that, nothing prevents users from categorizing karate, jiu jitsu, or whatever as MMA.This is exactly what I'm suggesting. It appears it would only be a problem if you did multiple of these.
Yeah I get it - that was my way of agreeing with you.
No one is suggesting otherwise. The issue is what to do while you wait for that to happen.
I assume OP would continue to use Cardio.
From one POV it would be better to use something that's too vague (Cardio) as opposed to something that's incorrect (MMA).
I already addressed that implicit point. Because users care about categorizing their activities correctly, even if there are no sport-specific "benefits" for doing so.
No one is arguing otherwise.
I assume OP would continue to use Cardio.
From one POV it would be better to use something that's too vague (Cardio) as opposed to something that's incorrect (MMA).
Seems more likely that someone doing Tai Chi might do other cardio stuff they want to keep separate than also doing MMA.
