Recently there have been a few clips online of people applying Tai-Chi in a realistic way, as in demonstrating skill against a reasonably non-compliant opponent. They are useful clips to watch even if you are not interested in the martial side of Tai-Chi as they give you a good idea of the body use Tai-Chi engenders and a practical demonstration of 'internal power' beyond the simple 'throw my own student through the air' demos.







This last one is worth it for the flares alone:

I have a bit of a love/hate with coach Scott Sonnon. On the one hand he is obviously skilled and I generally agree with most of the things he says, on the other hand he chooses to say and sell it using the relentless marketing patter of the American infomerical and has the habit of inventing new buzz words and ad speak (my favourite was 'Weaponizing your Architecture', or 'using any part of your body to strike' in English) to market stuff as 'the best thing since the last best thing'.

Saying that....I found yesterday that he has put a large chunk of his 'intu-flow' (see what I mean?) system on youtube for nowt. I first came across the intial incarnation of this years ago when he was selling it as 'Warrior Wellness' and I liked it then (as long as you turned the sound down to shut him up) it seems he has developed and improved it and as I said I may not like his manner but I do like his exercises.

This is the first part, you should be able to double click on the youtube vid below to open it in a new window and find the rest of it.