Tai Chi was originally an art of combat, but eventually became a health exercise in most lineages.
Our lineage, which comes from the famous fighting t’ai chi master Cheng Tin Hung, includes the original subtle and sophisticated self defence training.
The training process features regular practice of many drills and exercise that make responses to aggression second nature and automatic.
With regular practice students can skilfully neutralise all kinds of random attacks from an opponent and counter attack effectively, using the most powerful techniques to the opponents weakest points.
Technique training encourages the use of softness to defeat agression (evading using footwork or subtle body skills or skilfully diverting the opponents attack). Then powerful direct techniques are used to decisively counter via sweeps, throws, trips, striking techniques and joint locks and other close quarter moves.
With a little time of focused training smaller people can feel highly confident in their self defence abilities.
Tai Chi self defence course
WUDANG TAI CHI CHUAN’S 48 TRADITIONAL FIGHTING TECHNIQUES, DRILLS AND ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
