Category: Improve Your Tai Chi Forms

In our most recent training trip to China we spent long days and evenings focusing on four of the tai chi weapons forms. The straight sword, broadsword, and long pole we working learning to improve....

What do you get when you remove the angles from tai chi and the circles from Bagua and put all your intention into linear attacks? You get Xing Yi Quan, a lesser-known internal martial art that has a...

There are just a tiny number of sports and physical activities that can be done your whole life. I am very jealous of the golfers, swimmers, and tennis players out there who chose sports that are...

In a conversation with a pretty dedicated student I was surprised to hear that she felt a bit lost and was unsure where here tai chi training was going and what she should be focusing on. It’s true...

With hundreds of years of theorizing on how to progress in tai chi and perform tai chi correctly, you would think that there would be documentation on how to move the body. With that amount of time...

There is so much debate about lineage, history, and different styles of tai chi but one thing is for clear: every practitioner and style cites a single person and a single location as the original...