Softness Overcomes Hardness: Tai Chi teaches that connecting and yielding to an incoming force is more effective than meeting it head-on. By remaining relaxed and pliable, practitioners can neutralize aggression with minimal effort, turning an opponent's strength...

People come to Tai Chi from many different backgrounds and for many different reasons. My own particular reasons were two-fold. Firstly, I had suffered some spinal injuries whilst playing football (not at any serious level of footbalI I might add) and had allowed them...