With the proper training in speed, intent, and martial application, tai chi’s principles of yielding, redirection, and neutralization can be powerful tools for self-defense.

Home News News Detail 08/18/2015 Tai chi Master Jesse Tsao will discuss and demonstrate the Chinese martial art — practiced for both its defense training and its health benefits — on Friday, Sept. 11, ...

Events Other Tai Chi Classes Posted by John Sweeney for Haenicke Institute for Global Education Tai Chi is a traditional Chinese martial art originally designed as a unique self-defense technique, ...

Rew will discuss the benefits of Tai Chi, as well as offer a demonstration. Attendees are welcome to stay for a free trial class following the program, which begins at 11:30 am.

Instructor James P. Shea explained that sped up, tai chi looks like a martial art, but there’s deep philosophy involved in it and the development of mind, body and spirit.

As a prominent form of tai chi, Chen-style tai chi was said to be developed during the late 1600s by Chen Wangting, a military commander during the Ming Dynasty.

The demonstration will start off with a short form of traditional Yang-style tai chi and a brief talk about the history of the discipline and also the health benefits.

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More than 400 students and more than 80 faculty and staff members at SUNY Cortland have embraced the ancient Chinese martial art of Tai Chi in the past eight years as a means to achieve overall ...