Originally Posted by BoarSpear

Virtually anyone can learn and benifit from Taiji,IF its real Taiji and thier instructor actually knows it and is willing to teach it.

Thats the problem though, the number of clowns passing off bogus crap by far outweighs the number of authentic teachers.

Fighting with any internal art is even rarer due to fact most people who teach the internal arts arent fighters. True, the people who founded the Internal arts were fighters, thays how they managed to hide thier intent in subtle moves inevident to the untrained (in internal theory and priciple) eye.

However few of the people who teach these styles today were taught about the actual methods of self defense contained in the forms (maps) left by the founders. Instead they try to "prop up" the internal styles with external fighting concepts and theories.