Self Defense Applications, by Ken Gullette

The Yang 24 Form is the most popular Tai Chi Chuan form in the world. Millions practice it daily for health and meditation. But Tai Chi was designed as a martial art. This video includes one minute of clips that show some of the 108 self defense techniques that Sifu Ken Gullette demonstrates in his new Kindle ebook -- Yang Tai Chi 24 Form Self-Defense. 

The essence of T'ai Chi is one of peace and kindness and also of calm and strength.  It is very much a martial art, and thus belongs in fighting annals.  There are stories of masters being challenged to fight and proving their T'ai Chi prowess as a self defense system.

It takes a long time, and much study and practice, to learn T'ai Chi as a martial art.  So it's unlike martial arts from the external school, where self defense techniques are taught from day one and are built upon forthrightfully over time.  Still, because some T'ai Chi students are keen to learn sooner than later, it makes sense, if done cautiously and properly, for instructors to teach the self defense applications of T'ai Chi.

Ken Gullette does a fine job in a one-minute video.