Tai Chi and martial arts videos from masters

Instruction and demonstrations from a grandmaster

Grandmaster Chen is one of the world's preeminent teachers of Yang Tai Chi Chuan. He has over 200 affiliate schools with tens of thousands of students worldwide.

When "Inside Kung-Fu" magazine inducted him into their Hall of Fame, it termed him "someone who will go down in history as one of the finest and most influential traditional internal stylists of his generation". He began his career as the youngest student of Professor Cheng Man-Ching, living with him for over two years, participating in special internal energy training and studying advanced push hands techniques.

Grandmaster Chen's Tai Chi videos

Push hands, Short Form (37 Postures), Sword Form, fencing

Professor Cheng Man-Ching was one of the most influential figures in the evolution of Tai Chi Chuan. Around 1930, he began studying with Yang Chengfu (1883 - 1936), a direct descendant of Yang Luchan (1799 - 1872), who founded Yang-style Tai Chi Chuan.

Through changes he made to the Yang Forms and his training of many world-renowned masters, Professor Cheng played a pivotal role in improving and popularizing Yang-Style Tai Chi.

Professor Cheng's Tai Chi Chuan videos and articles

Master demonstrating Tai Chi push hands principles

We’ve been lucky to obtain two rare DVDs of Dr. Ping-Siang Tao teaching push hands and doing the Yang Tai Chi Short Form.

He explains how "yielding while controlling" is key to making push hands effective as martial arts training. Dr. Tao, a senior student of Cheng Man-Ching and classmate of William C. C. Chen's, was renowned for his mastery of push hands. He travelled the world giving workshops and was known as the “Master of the Soft Way”.

Click to see Dr. Tao's push hands videos.

Reigning world push hands champion in action

Tuishou Chen Chi-Cheng has been the reigning world push hands champion for over a decade. This is the largest collection of videos of Tuishou Chen in action available anywhere on the web.

Through his father, he traces his Tai Chi lineage and Yang style to the legendary Professor Cheng Man-Ching. Besides competions, there are revealing videos of Tuishou taking on four world champions, one after the other, in friendly, free-style push hands, with no rules.

Videos of Tuishou Chen's push hands competitions

Chess master becomes world Push Hands champion

Josh Waitzkin studied Tai Chi under Grandmaster William C.C. Chen. During his short competitive career, he won 2 world and 13 national push hands championships. Josh is a chess prodigy who won his first national chess championship at age 9.

The story of his early years was told in the film "Searching for Bobby Fischer" (Paramount Pictures 1993). He's the founder of an educational non-profit and written a well-received book that discusses Tai Chi and integrating performance psychology into the classroom.

Videos of Josh Waitzkin's push hands competitions

Martial arts from Pacific Street Films

"Martial Arts: The Real Story" is from a special that originally aired on the Learning Channel. It explores the roots deep in the past of different systems, developed through centuries of experience in life and death struggles.

There are videos of world-renowned martial artists and interviews with experts whose research sheds light on an often murky and misunderstood world and unearths some fascinating and long forgotten stories.

Learn about the rest of Pacific Street Films's martial arts videos

Our channel has the complete Tai Chi Form instruction DVD (created from the Cheng Man-Ching “Master Tapes”), along with the largest collection of videos of the legendary Professor in action.

The slow, gentle, even flowing, Yang Style Short Form developed by Professor Cheng has become the most popular style of Tai Chi. It has an excellent reputation for stress reduction, health improvement, and self centering.

Click to see Cheng Man-Ching's Yang Short Form videos.

We launched this channel with two DVDs of Grandmaster William C. C. Chen doing the Yang Short Form and the traditional Long Form, step-by-step.

We see him doing the forms from different perspectives (front view, from behind, split screen, with breathing) and including helpful hints.

Click for Master Chen's Tai Chi Form videos.

Watch the complete, superb, Push Hands DVD created from the Cheng Man-Ching “Master Tapes”. The Professor was known for his relaxed and soft style of push hands, along with his powerful pushes.

He demonstrates how certain positions leave the pusher vulnerable to high speed, martial arts attacks and emphasizes lightness, relaxation, and positioning to cover any threat - without blocking.

Click to see Professor Cheng Man-Ching's push hands videos.

Grandmaster Chen demonstrates the difference between "energy pushing" and pushes that come from tensing the muscles of the arms and legs.

He shows how to uproot an opponent, how to disappear under a push (without injuring your back), how to resist by sinking down instead of using muscles to push back, and how to drag down a person who is pushing by their arm.

Click for Master Chen's push hands videos.

He's a modest guy, a junior high teacher in Taiwan. We've added exclusive videos of world push hands champion Tuishou Chen. There's surprising little on the web about him. He's mainly competed in the Far East, and he traces his Tai Chi lineage and Yang style through his father to Cheng Man-Ching.

Yet he's been unbeaten in world championships since 2002! There's extraordinary footage of Tuishou doing free-style pushing with four world champions, in turn.

Click to see Tuishou Chen's push hands videos.

Our channel has the only videos that document the brief but amazing, push hands career of Josh Waitzkin. A chess prodigy who won his first national chess championship at age 9, Josh studied Tai Chi under Grandmaster William C. C. Chen.

During his short competitive career, he won 2 world and 13 national push hands championships. Exciting matches, fast action and spectacular takedowns.

Click to see Josh Waitzkin's push hands videos.

We’ve gotten exclusive access to videos of Josh Waitzkin’s push hands “training camp”. They show how the winning U.S. team from Grandmaster William C. C. Chen’s School of Tai Chi Chuan trained for national and world championships.

The sessions have drills, relaxed two-man exercises, and plenty of fine push hands (shown here with training partner Daniel Caulfield, also a push hands champion).

Click to see Josh Waitzkin's push hands videos.

Our video channel includes streaming the complete Tai Chi Sword DVD of the Cheng Man-Ching “Master Tapes”. Professor Cheng was a master of wielding the double-edged straight Chinese sword.

We see the legendary master fencing and teaching the Yang Tai Chi Sword Form. As one his instructors puts it, Professor Cheng made fencing "look like a walk in the park" - with no one even coming close to scoring a touch.

Click to see Cheng Man-Ching's sword videos.

Our video channel includes the whole DVD of Grandmaster William C. C. Chen doing the Yang Sword Form, step-by-step.

We see him doing the form from different perspectives (front view, from behind, split screen, with breathing). He was taught the form by Professor Cheng Man-Ching, who learned it from his teacher, Yang Chengfu.

Click for Master Chen's sword videos.

We've got exclusive videos of Grandmaster Chen teaching the secrets of fast, effective punching. His specialty is the connection between the movements of Tai Chi and achieving great speed and power in punches.

"Inside Kung-Fu" magazine called him "among the world's foremost authorities on Tai Chi free fighting". In a couple of the clips, he does his famous "banana punch", hitting a punching bag while holding a banana in each hand. He explains that the fist never needs to be clenched, either while doing the Tai Chi form or while strking.

Click for videos of Master Chen's how-to-punch classes.

We’ve added enlightening videos from Nils Klug’s Tai Chi Applications DVD.

A senior Tai Chi instructor trained by Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, Nils clarifies the mechanics and purpose behind each movement by going through the entire Yang Short Form with the help of a partner and adding scripted two-man martial arts exercises.

Click to see Nils Klug Tai Chi application videos.

We’ve added videos of Tiffany Chen from her private collection. She is a senior instructor for her father, Grandmaster William C. C. Chen, at his Tai Chi school and has over 40 Gold Medals in push hands.

One video shows her winning her world championship bout in Lei Tai (platform fighting) after pushing her opponent off the platform several times. There are illuminating clips of Grandmaster Chen training Tiffany to punch with power and create an impact.

Click to see the Tiffany Chen's videos.

Our channel has exclusive videos of Max Chen from his private collection of MMA fights and push hands competitions. His kickboxing bouts have lots of action and a relaxed, smooth style, reflecting his years of Tai Chi training under his father, Grandmaster William C. C. Chen.

(There's a good clip of Max sparring with him.) Max represented the USA at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and teaches Tai Chi and full-contact fighting.

Click for Max Chen's videos.

Watch the full “Martial Arts: The Real Story” DVD from Pacific Street Films. Originally, it aired as a special on the Learning Channel. It explores the roots deep in the past of different systems, features a dozen world-renowned experts, and includes some early, never-before-seen footage.

Click to see Pacific Street Films' videos.