Tai Chi Chuan Flexible Boxing Fraternity

A Functional Martial Art

The one word "relax" is the most difficult to achieve. All the rest follows naturally.... Cheng Man-ch'ing

Thai Keik Australia

President: Wayne Hansen

Tel: (07) 55392417

Thai Keik Australia is an organization founded in 1979 and dedicated to teaching the entire Yang style of Tai Chi Chuan. The current president is Sifu Wayne Hansen who has been training in Tai Chi Chuan since 1973.

The teaching has a proud legacy: a lineage passed down from the renowned Cheng Man-Ching (鄭曼青) to Ye Xiu Ting (葉秀挺) in Malaysia, where it was taught to Tok Seng Gim (祝聖錦), Tan Khoon Ang (陳君安), who instructed and taught Eric Fitzgerald, who in turn instructed and taught Wayne Hansen.

Sifu Hansen teaches to preserve this strong and vibrant strain of Tai Chi Chuan that flourished in the martial furnace that was Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s to help it grow and develop here in Australia.

Teaching in our organization emphasizes the principles of technically correct practice, detailed, personal instruction and effective martial application of yielding and softness. The health benefits of the practice flow from adherence to the martial principles that made Tai Chi Chuan a famous art.

Interested parties are invited to contact the school to discuss the curriculum and training schedule.

Curriculum

Song Jing (松經)

* Five sunken energy works (Huang's song shen wu fa -黃氏松身五法)

* Tai Chi walking exercises (太極行功)

Solo Forms (太極拳架)

* Ye Xiu Ting's combat-oriented variation of the 37 steps form

* Ye Xiu Ting's lower hand Tai Chi Chuan 18 steps additional

* Yang style Taichi 108 traditional form

* San Shou A and B forms (太極拳散手對拆)

* Tok Seng Gim's applied Tai Chi Chuan fighting form (San Shou C)

* Self defence applications of form techniques.

Sensitivity training (聽勁練習)

* Tui Shou (pushing hands -太極推手)

Partner work with numerous two-person exercises incorporating:

Peng (ward-off), Lu (roll away), Ji (press) and An (push), single, fixed,

Double, moving and free style sensing hands exercises.

* Ta Lu (cornering exercises -moving step pushing hands 走大捋)

The four techniques of Cai (to pull down 採), Lie (to separate 挒)

Zhou (strike with elbow 肘) and Kao (strike with shoulder靠)

Weapons training

* Staff forms (Feng Yang staff-鳳陽棍)

Solo and two person pole forms with self defence applications.

* Broadsword (Tai Chi Dao -太極刀)

Solo from and defence applications with the sword, including dynamic

partner practice with single sticks.

* Double edge Sword (Tai Chi Jian -太極劍)

Solo form and defence application taught using single stick.

Links to:- Canberra Branch ACT Fundamental Tai Chi Chuan

Thanks to Sifu Lun Yeung Law ( 羅倫讓 ), Principal of the Melbourne Cheng Man Ching Tai Chi Quan Study Association ( 澳大利亞墨爾本鄭子太極拳研究會 ) for help with Chinese language, characters and names.