Is there any tournaments that deals with tai chi combat not just push hands I mean full contact proper fighting I've seen a few videos on YouTube but is there s name of a tournament that had years of history and video documentation if not I need more sources of tai chi combat I mean real fighting not teaching I want to see it in action thank you Dan
Lei Tai is an open format event There is always the old footage of Dan Docherty too [ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DL4kaox2ZY"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DL4kaox2ZY[/ame]
If you can find videos of fighting tourneys from the 1950s up in places like Taiwan,Malaysia, Hong Kong, etc,you'll see T'ai Chi guys. Whether you'll be able to tell the difference between them and the Choy Lay Fut,Hsing I,Pak Hok,N. Shaolin etc, etc,guys in the same tourneys is another matter.