Can you fight someone using Tai Chi or is just an exercise?|||Tai Chi has phenomenal application. Too many people either can't see it or don't want to take the time to see it. Tai Chi can in no way be treated as a sport how Karate and Taekwondo so heinously is. The benefits of understanding the applications of Tai Chi makes it one of the most deadliest martial arts because of the fact, in the movement's application, is pressure point strikes.
Tai Chi can be practiced fast. Don't let absolutely any one fool you on this. It's practiced slow because the aim is as an internal style. Sped up, you can see some of the most spectacular techniques in martial arts.
Tai Chi is a no nonsense martial art. Sadly, It's easy to find people teaching just some set of movements that they have no idea what it means, but when if you can find someone who knows what they're doing it's one of the greatest styles on Earth.|||A lot of people are actually surprised when I tell them this, but Taiji in application is actually more or less a combination of striking and wrestling/takedowns. It gets a bad rep due to movies and hippies that do it for health, but it really is a solid martial art.
Look at guys like Chen Xiaowang or William C.C. Chen, who both are in old age and yet have amazing theories on fighting and some really interesting abilities.
The problem with Taiji is that it's a labor of love and takes a lot of time and very specific training to be skillful in and doesn't come as easily or quickly as many martial arts. In order to use it to fight you have to be trained by someone who really knows what they're doing, and in modern times that is few and far between when it comes to most instructors.|||You're supposed to be able to, but I have never, ever heard of it being used with success in a street fight...|||Yes, and a real tai chi master could kill you with a fa jing strike or send you flying like a guy on wires in an old kung fu movie.|||yes it can be. But it is mostly slow motion exercise.|||Yes.
The problem is finding some one who trained in it properly and understands how to apply it. And even then they must be willing to teach those applications.|||It's too slow. By the time you do a Tai Chi swing your opponent would take your money and knock you down|||yep...just do it at twice or thrice the speed you usually practise the moves at|||Absolutely. As long as u can find an instructor that knows what theyre doing.
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