Chinese Taiji or Taijiquan is more than a fitness regime or a martial art. It is a fascinating study of a Taoist philosophical tradition that spans millenia.

Visitors from Demark are learning Chinese Taiji from our master.

Taijiquan is a "soft" martial style.  Practitioners learn to relax their body, connect soft tissues and align their physical structure for maximum force with minimal effort. Students follow a structured training regime to move efficiently before moving on to work with their energy system (jing luo).

Taijiquan, also called Tai Chi Chuan, or just Taiji or even Tai Chi is often translated to mean "grand ultimate fist". However, the word "taiji" is an important concept in Taoist creation theory. In physics, "taiji" shares common ground with a principal governing the conservation of angular momentum.  So, Taijiquan might alternatively be considered as a "combat style premised on the Taoist concept of taiji".  Chinese medicine and martial arts is riddled with vocabulary established by Taoism’s rich philosophy and you can read more about these concepts  here.

Taijiquan is more than a fitness regime or a martial art.  It is a fascinating  study of a Taoist philosophical tradition that spans millenia. Indeed, the earliest texts that historians can attribute to the philopsophy’s genesis date back to the same period in the West that we would associate with Stonehenge, which dates back to about 2,500 BC.

Physical conditioning is an important part of Taijiquan practise, and our students practise traditional "Ji Ben Gong" in conjunction with a graduated program of Yang Style forms, culminating in the Yang Style Sword form. From a martial standpoint, students can study "empty hand" applications and Tui-Shou or ‘Pushing Hands’, a two person exercise which teaches students how to develop their "rooting", sensitivity and the ability to uproot an opponent using internal forces called "jins".