Tai Chi History A General Overview:
Tai Chi is an ancient martial art, created, and now also maintained by a precious few it has little regard in the eye of the modern martial arts enthusiast as a combat system.
What can be regarded as true Tai Chi in its real form is a profound skill based on a deep understanding of principles that where developed over generations. Now associated by most as solely an art for health, Tai Chi is often misused and largely miss taught.
With so much of the history of Tai Chi not fully accounted for how can we reach an absolute conclusion in regards to its true nature?, the simple answer is to LOOK at it.
A tool is created for a specific purpose; therefore exercising skill in a specific manner that emulates this purpose is how skill is developed. This was the essential discipline of all masters in history whether they be martial warriors, monks, or artists the philosophical background of Kung Fu and Tai Chi encompassed that practice which goes beyond perfection into the profound celestial precision of nature and the literal sense of supernatural.
Many believe it was created by a figure called Zhang San Feng during either the twelfth or fifteenth century (depending on the source). Reputedly a master of Shaolin Kung Fu he wanted to create a system more in keeping with his philosophical and religious beliefs as a Taoist monk. The revelation that gave birth to the Tai Chi fist was apparently a fight between a snake and a crane. Although there is evidence that a man called Zhang San Feng existed at this time there is little or none to support the claim that he is the creator of the system.
Many believe his appointment as creator of the system is as a result of misinformation and a popularized want to associate its creation with an individual of more ancient roots. Some believe that all the styles of Tai Chi practiced today are in fact linked to a the single man who created Chen style – Chen Wang Ting, a General during the latter years of the Ming dynasty. Chen was a native of Chen Jia Gou village, Wen County in Henan province in northern China and after the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the creation of the Ching, Wang Ting returned to his homestead and created his form.
There are many theories and explanations surrounding the Chen family, it is well known they where feared for their powerful skill and kept there art hidden. An explanation for this secrecy would be first to control the use of the skill as a dangerous, misused and/or mal-practiced art. Another reason would be to keep the art underground and out of sight from the disliked reign of the Manchu government.
Tai Chi Training in the Master Wong System:
Master Wong’s Tai Chi Combat System is a potent weapon that will teach you to utilise your whole body in unison to deliver immense power and control.
Tai Chi Combat I:
This is the first part of Master Wong’s Tai Chi Combat System. It covers both the Yang and Chen form and Combat technique; learning includes basic exercises to build the flexibility, co-ordination and strength of the body necessary in order to set a viable foundation. Form teaches the relevant to body movement and technique used in combat, this must be practiced often and regularly in order to strengthen the body’s capability. Application allows the individual to practice and use combat technique with another person in order to develop power and skill in Tai Chi.
Master Wong’s Chen style is a harder, faster fighting art that uses low stances to deliver immense power along with devastating techniques to 
break down and control your opponents attack. The origins of this form are firmly rooted in its martial heritage. The Chen family where greatly feared and renowned for their powerful skills and their training was kept close within the family or highly trusted individuals. With a unique ideology this form other wise known as the ‘cannon fist’, draws much of its deep and powerful understanding from elements of the battlefield.
Yang teaches less hitting techniques, focusing more on how to get rid of your opponent through absorption of attack, powerful pushing, pulling, diversion and control. Yang Tai Chi’s development originates in Chen village, after learning there style through great dedication and training Yang developed his own system and passed it down to his children. Yang style is a popular form of Tai Chi, however as with other forms, and due to historical circumstances it has over time been diluted, making Master Wong’s form of Tai Chi a great rarity. Utilizing strong stances, the transferral of body weight and power into an opponent, Yang style re-designs certain elements of Chen style with alternate uses.
Tai Chi Combat II:
Tai Chi Combat II, the second part of Master Wong’s Tai Chi Combat System this form is similar to many movements and combat techniques used in the first Chen form in Master Wong’s System, however it is entirely differing in its form and each applicative combat method is more extensive than Tai Chi Combat I.
Tai Chi Chuan:
Tai Chi Chuan meaning ‘Grand Ultimate Fist’ is based on no form; it is used solely with the principles of Tai Chi in mind. Its technique and skill are developed directly through push hand practice, drills and application. These train the individual in understanding how to move, and use weight transfer with balance and proper body control to apply combat technique. It is however easier to build on a foundation based on Tai Chi form
Grand Ultimate Fist I: Covering the basic body structure, strength stability and technique need to begin the practice of Tai Chi combat training. 
First understanding how to utilise the fundamentals of push hand training, transferring weight and maintaining balance.
Grand Ultimate Fist II: The second level in Master Wong’s Grand Ultimate Fist teaches through training in push hand how to feel and control the energy of your opponent, basic techniques, and how to maintain support of your body and generate force.
Full body pad work in this training is the best way to find out whether you have learned properly how to use Tai Chi movement in the close quarter combat zone.
Grand Ultimate Fist III: The third and most dangerous level of training, Grand Ultimate Fist III is a challenging skill to learn, both mentally and 
physically for any individual.
With the necessary skills and attributes developed through the previous parts of training already well established, you should have the fundamental principles of this training developed well by this stage. If you do not training could be more dangerous to you.
You will learn how to use the techniques and skills learned in push hand fully and in real-time, learning to exploit weaknesses, break down your opponent and destroy them internally. This is the ultimate level of Tai Chi as dark and powerful weapon, .
Tai Chi Chin Na:
‘Chin Na’ is something that could be considered as a higher technique of skill and control in that it further concentrates on the physiology of the body, training you in the use of very effective methods that will allow you to utilise effortless control over your opponent’s body.
Chin Na is a rarely taught skill, understood by few and practiced by fewer. It is arguably something of a more civilised approach, used more by higher classes that valued its subtleness and useful techniques in being able to pinpoint the weakest points of an attacker’s body. It is believed by many to be a remnant of the specialist disarming methods used on the ancient battlefields of China, reflecting the background of the great Chen Wang Ting’s skills as a warrior.
You will learn how to find nerves and inflict pain with precision, lock the joints of the body, how to feel force and adapt your body to use it through push hand practice, perfecting your precision and control in the use of ‘Chin Na’.Adobe Flash Player not installed or older than 9.0.115!
Tai Chi Self Defence:
Tai Chi was generally used as a means of self-defence by the higher classes, as it is a fighting method that becomes natural and unforced in regards to the control and the degree of damage you inflict on an individual. Master Wong has now incorporated this potent weapon into a training system for today’s society.
Through perfecting control over your body and developing your understanding of body mechanics you will learn to deliver destructive force using Tai Chi techniques against the most common of assaults, such as punches, grabs, head locks, weapons, verbal abuse and more. From body hits to take downs the skills of Master Wong’s Combat Tai Chi have been condensed and illustrated for your learning.
