Tai Chi Chuan Full Contact Fighting

Wudang style (Cheng Tin-hung lineage) tai chi chuan fighting techniques and pushing hands skills applied in full contact training.

Some additional information about this clip : the 2 fighters were around 16 years old at the time. They trained for about 8 months to use their tai chi chuan skills in full contact situations. Entering an open Flemish tournament in 1996 (along with 3 other team members) they fought and defeated adult black belts in karate, taekwondo, kung-fu, kenpo... The style practiced is Wudang (Cheng Tin-hung lineage) tai chi chuan, also referred to as practical tai chi chuan.
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• tui
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• practical
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[TaoistSoldier]

Fighting is fighting. Tia chi is a system of martial arts like any other. Tai chi uses chi gung (energy work) to develop relaxed muscles, structural ailignment, and strengthing of tendons After that you gotta try to punch somebody in the head and get punched in the head, Boxing, Muay Thai, BJJ are effective because the training invovles lots of fighting. Develop your body with any number of ways, karate, kung fu, weight lifting, yoga whatever. You want to get good at fighting. . . fight.

[hulkout666]

A lot of people comment that in full contact fights, they don't see much difference in the various styles. But they don't understand. From a distance, everyone looks the same. You can only punch and kick so many ways. It's when you get close that you see the specific techniques like the tai-chi shoulder push and leverage techniques for example. And when you do see it, it's subtle. It's not like watching a kung fu movie. It's real fighting.

[louidoggify]

@amer1cancer2753 you got it. I'm 27, and at first I didn't have much respect for tai chi fist. now, I approach tai chi enthusists with respect and a bit of caution....

[amer1cancer2753]

so those old people at the park who do Tai Chi can kick my ass?

[jtjoatmon]

@durty1calhoun

sorry but Shui Jiao = Chinese dumplings in soup. Shuai jiao = Chinese Wrestling.

[durty1calhoun]

@RoyalDragonusa Shui Jiao= Chinese wrestling. Taijiquan is 80% wrestling. The point where one kid picks the other one up and dumps him on his back is the closing move in the Yang style form-- it is my favorite move when a bigger guy is leaning on me in Sanshou. (except instead of picking him up, I just pull his feet out from under him...TIMBEEERRRRR!!) :-)

[cheesebagel100]

i've watched some tai-chi and this looks very like most other fighting styles from a distance because there are only so many ways to punch and kick (as someone else said) but the reason it doesnt look like a kung-fu movie is because both combatants are trained and none of that flashy hollywood stuff would work

now if you pitted a master of tai-chi, kung-fu, jiu-jitsu, judo or any martial against some untrained random person from the street then you would see the stylish hollywood stuff

[Tokagawa89]

The man who created Tai chi quan was a general in china and knew 32 types of martial arts, he mixed alot of them together and created tai chi quan not just to create an efficient style of fighting but also to cultivate your body and mind and maintain it to a very old age.

[colaFRank]

These are just kids. I am sure they have an understanding of the form. But it takes a while to reach the stage where the mind is completely calm, whatever the situation may be.

[Ballowall]

Its interesting how close to Judo it looks. I like it.

[RoyalDragonusa]

This is not Tai Chi at all. It's Shui Jiao.

[GuamKomudo]

Good to see that REAL kung fu is still around... And by real kung fu I mean the fight usually ends with someone picking someone else up and throwing them on the ground... This is the kung fu I remember lol Real kung fu = Fighting lol

Stupid Hollywood...