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Originally Posted by TTEscrima
Can you explain how this is trained? What kind of Tai Chi do you practice?
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"How" is kind of a big question. There are an awful lot of techniques/moves/whatever in taijiquan that are based on 'unbalancing' if you will, setting up throws, trips, strikes and such. The white crane speads its wings, flash the back, Buddha's warrior attendant pounds mortar and all that sort of thing.
I'm certainly nobody's expert in taijiquan. I studied under Chen Quanzhong in Xi'an for a few years and I practice stuff on my own, but I'm a wrestler. I reckon I know just enough to know when someone is making fantastic, unrealistic, or exaggerated claims. On the other hand, I've seen folks who only trained in taijiquan, and nothing else, mixing it up in street violence and I certainly can't agree with any folks who say (and so many do) that tai chi is useless for real self defense, etc.