Taijiquan...
It`s hard to find a quality instructor. I`d say that 90% of them are not teaching taiji that has any combat usefullness (Some would argue that the other 10% don`t teach anything useful either). Most of the instructors from the PRC are teaching competition Taiji (i.e. forms competition) with a bit of qigong thrown in for health. Just because they teach push-hands doesn`t make it combat-oriented.
That said, there are some people out there doing serious taiji - Earle Montague is one of them. He`s got a couple of books out, Power T`ai Chi was the one my instructor recommended all those years ago. Montague was a former pro-wrestler who looked like the antithesis of the typical caucasian newagey taiji exponant.
I personally don`t look to taijiquan as a source for life-and-death self-defense skills though.
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