Is Mount Wudang or Chen Village a better place to learn and experience Tai Chi?

Afterall, they are both known as the birthplace of Tai Chi...|||Mount Wudang being a religious temple, the rules'll be a lot stricter there. There's a video of Wudang Tai Chi on youtube under Hong Kong TVs "Kung Fu Quest" and the priest shows the self defense applications pretty impressively. Then the "Needle Through Brick" documentary shows some good Tai Chi as well. But Chen village is doing the most business teaching Tai Chi now so their most likely to be most accommodating to Westerners.|||Chen family Tai Chi does have fajing in it, but that is not it's primary focus. It also has a lot of circular movements. The two systems are similar in combative nature.





I will agree that it all really just depends on you and what you want. Although, with the right teacher, you can get the same experience from either system.|||it depends on which style of tai chi you want to focus on





wudang tai chi is different to chen village tai chi





chen style tai chi is very dynamic and uses alot of fajin (explosive) energy


i'm not 100% sure on wudang but i think they are more of a circular and slower.





i'm sure both teach pushing hands and the general tai chi exercises.


but i'm very sure that chen style tai chi inherits amazing self defence techniques


i've not seen wudang tai chi in application...





it really depends on you, but i'd go to chen village because i would love to learn the martial applications of chen style tai chi|||certainly they were historically important in tai chi, i would try one of the big parks or squares in beijing or shanghai at sunrise where you will find huge groups of people practicing





try looking up a tai chi holiday, there are loads if you google it|||The Chen village is the actual birthplace of Taijiquan. It doesnt matter where u learn it as long as u find a good instructor to study under.|||Will it makes you a better christian ,if you `d go to a Vatican ? Or Jeruzalem ?