Combat Tai Chi

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Combat Tai Chi Program
Combat Tai Chi DVDs
Combat Tai Chi Workshops
Combat Tai Chi Certification
What is Combat Tai Chi?

Combat Tai Chi Program

Clear’s Combat Tai Chi program will teach you to fight with Tai Chi quickly and effectively.

Sifu Clear (far left) teaches a Bone Breaking application of Tai Chi

This program is packed with rare, high level and hard-to-find information on the real Combat (self defense) application of Tai Chi.

You will learn Tai Chi principles & techniques that can be learned and used right away for immediate self defense, and you will be given all the tools and instruction you need to develop the high level internal combat skills of Tai Chi.

Some of the skills you will learn include:

Quick & Easy Street Applications
Dim Mak & Advanced Dim Mak
Fa Jing (several different kinds)
Poison Hand
Steel Wrapped in Cotton
Internal Iron Palm
Internal Iron Body
Tai Chi Whip Hands
“Leading into Emptiness”
Bone Breaking Applications
Learn to defeat and negate Dim Mak strikes and bone breaks.
Learn how to combine and apply all these skills & many more in real street self defense situations.

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What is Combat Tai Chi?

When we say Combat Tai Chi we are actually referring to Tai Chi Chuan. Chuan means Fist. All Tai Chi started out as Combat Tai Chi or Tai Chi Chuan. We tend to say Combat Tai Chi rather than just Tai Chi because although the direct translation is fist in the case of Combat Tai Chi fist refers to the idea of combative use much more than any specific reference to an actual fist.

Over the last 50 years or so some Tai Chi instructors dropped the Combat Tai Chi fighting principles from their art and started calling their art just Tai Chi without the Chuan. The idea was to allow practitioners to learn and work on the health and healing while leaving out the martial aspects of Combat Tai Chi.

The problem is that the Combat Tai Chi moves/forms have specific internal and external applications that are also the correct uses for health and healing with Tai Chi. Without these applications the art truly is not Combat Tai Chi and it is not able to impart the amazing internally healthy Tai Chi benefits either because the mechanical and energetic principles are not understood and so are not being worked in the movements.

Combat Tai Chi involves all aspects of self defense with Tai Chi. Combat Tai Chi also includes the healing aspects. However, when we say Combat Tai Chi on our videos and materials we tend to just put the Combat Tai Chi aspects of the Tai Chi on that DVD or video. So, the student who wants Combat Tai Chi can specifically obtain and work on that.

If the student wants the health aspects of Tai Chi then they can study that aspect by itself also. However, in our regular curriculum you will find the health and healing is mixed right in with the self defense and it is very easy to see that Combat Tai Chi and Tai Chi are one and the same.

So, the point I am making here is that although Combat Tai Chi and Tai Chi for health can be studied separately they must be studied together at least to some degree in order for the student to really understand the material.
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Sigung Clear explains the use of breath in one type of Fa Jing at our January Combat Tai Chi workshop

Combat Tai Chi Workshops

March 26, 27 & 28 2010 – Maryville, TN

Jan 22, 23 & 24 2010 – Maryville, TN

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Combat Tai Chi DVDs

Complete Combat Tai Chi Program (coming soon)

Individual Combat Tai Chi Videos
Wu Chi & Intro to Combat Tai chi - $19.75 This is an introduction & demonstration of many of the concepts and principles taught in the Combat Tai Chi program.	Internal Power - $189 This DVD is an essential pre-requisite to the Combat Tai Chi Program	Combat Tai Chi with Richard Clear - from TRS Direct This dvd from TRS is NOT part of the Combat Tai Chi program. However we highly recommend it. Particularly for those who are mostly interested in quick self defense.
Vol 1: Apparent Opening	Vol 2: Rise & Fall / Place Hands On Jade Table (coming soon)	Vol 3: Wild Horse Tosses Mane (coming soon)
Vol 4 – 18 coming soon
Advanced Combat Tai Chi Videos (coming soon)