Combat Tai Chi Hard Fighting Method

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The Core Method 19 Lessons

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Clear Defense Tai Chi Training Program: Warning

This is Not for MMA

Real Attack Scenarios

Avoid and Get Away Whenever Possible

This Course Teaches Combat Tai Chi

Awareness is Your Best Defense

Avoidance Be Smart, Get Away

Tai Chi Fighting Position

Central Standing Position

Hand and Arm Position

Fixing Positional Errors

Keep Your Hands Over Your Head

Find Correct Body Shape

Foot Positioning

Efficiency of Posture

Heavy Dropping Stomps

Action Beats Reaction

Position for Readiness

Check Your Partner for Errors

Deterrence 17 Lessons

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An Introduction to The Rest of the Class

How to Legally Avoid an Attacker

This Course Uses a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications

Let Them Show You That They are an Attacker

Legal Deterrence

Use a Command Voice

“I’m right there Everytime”

Heavier Stomps Equal Heavier Hits

Stomp to Jumpstart Yourself

Stomp to Overcome Fear

Widen Your Arms for Cagier Opponents

Widen Your Arms For Multiple Opponents

Check Your Partner for their Best Presentation

Comparing Punches vs. Slaps

Slow Motion Sparring

Slow Motion Sparring with Sound

Get Your Partner to Overextend

Stomping and Footwork 24 Lessons

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Arms Wide, High and Elbows Sunk to Drop Whole Bodyweight

Using Stomps to Change Direction

Solo Practice vs. Partner Practice: Watch Your Partner Like a Hawk

Practice on a Heavy Bag

Use Proper Body Position To Dissipate Hits

Now Add Kicks

Kick the Shin to Pitch Them

Kick The Shin, Not The Knee

Use a Drop Kick

Just a Poke

The Art of Tai Chi is Alive in Those Who Practice It

Closing Distance Against a Cagey Attacker

Posture for Intimidation

Give Them One Option

Slide Action

Do Not Back Up

Now Turn a Little Bit

Backing Up Creates Openings, Moving Forward Closes Them

Focus on Moving Your Feet First

Clip Their Kicks with Your Knees

Turning to Address a Tackle

Turning Off The Line

What if They Fake You Out

Control the Space

Secret Weapons 9 Lessons

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Benefits of An Open Handed Strike

Multiple Small Hits are More Powerful Than One Big Hit

Rapid Small Hits

Use Your Elbows

Controlling with an Open Hand

Target Areas

Finger Strikes

Hands, Elbows, Knees and Stomps All Together

Gain Better Stabilization

Combat Hen and Ha 33 Lessons

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An Introduction to Hen and Ha

Hen and Ha Iron Body

Regulating with Hen and Ha Breathing

Hen and Ha to Push and Pull

Additional Uses of Hen and Ha

Hen and Ha for Striking

Inhale to Store, Exhale to Emit

Hen and Ha Build Capacity, Speed, Control and Sustainability

Benefits of Whole Body Breathing

Expanding and Contracting

Expansion and Contraction with Lion’s Roar

Lion’s Roar Moving the Energy

Lion’s Roar, Board Break

Add Expanding and Contracting to Feel More Dangerous

Clear Defense Tai Chi Training Program Testimonies

Don’t Chase the Punch, Keep Moving Your Feet

Train for Reality

Breathe Out First

Breathing for Iron Body

Hard Method Against Grabs

Hard Method with against Finger Grabs

Hard Method as they Try to Get in Close

Hard Method Against Throat Grabs

Against Someone Diving for Your Legs

Against Getting Choked from Behind

Against Waist Grab from Behind

Against Grab from Behind to Pin Arms

Against Being Pinned to the Ground

Grappling and Timing

Against Tackles

Against One Legged Swipe

Against a Clench

More Information on Structure Taught in Level 2-5 Push Hands Curriculum

Sleepy Eye and Wide Eye 51 Lessons

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Sleepy Eye to See Partner from Head to Toe

Having a Stigmatism

Sleepy Eye to See the Difference in the Size of a Fist 6 Inches from Your Face

Sleepy Eye to Hold Up Arms

Sleepy Eye to Push

Sleepy Eye to Push Down

Sleepy Eye to Increase Reflex Speed

Sleepy Eye to Receive Pushes

Sleepy Eye to Intercept Strikes

Sleepy Eye to Keep Track of Opponent’s Movements

Sleepy Eye Feedback from a Partner

Sleepy Eye to Observe Everything at Once

Sleepy Eye to See Energy

Sleepy Eye for Targeting

Start Training at a Distance

Responding to Fake Outs

Sleepy Eye While Doing the Form

Responding at Different Distances

Pressure Testing with a Partner

You Should Not Fatigue Easily

Hands High, Legs Bent, Knees and Elbows Guard Center

Set the Elbows, Keep Hands Above the Head

Sink the Shoulders, Use Your Body

Keep Your Corrections

Making Little Refinements on a Basic Method

Correcting Posture from Partner Feedback

Don’t Overextend, Stand Straight Up and Down

Feel Body Principles in Tai Chi Form

Sleepy Eye vs. Sleepy Eye

Sleepy Eye and Timing

Hitting with Wide Eye

Bring Attention and Power to To Immediate Peak

Wide Eye for Stronger Pushes

Wide Eye to Prevent Pushes

Power Comes from Seeing Whole Periphery of Vision

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Dim Mak Pressure Point Strikes with the OPEN HAND 1 Lesson

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The Method Automatically Targets Knock Out Points

The Power of Zhong Ding (Central Alignment) 5 Lessons

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The Power of Zhong Ding (Central Alignment)

Every Hit Has More Speed and Power with Less Effort

Practicing with One then Two Arm Pads

Try to Get Your Partner to Overextend

Don’t Overextend Your Breath

Security and Awareness 6 Lessons

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Security and Awareness Goes a Long Ways to Protect You

Attackers will Show You with Their Actions

Force the Bottleneck

What Attackers are Like

What Big Cities are Like

Follow The Natural

Knees and Elbows 11 Lessons

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Using Knees and Elbows

Protect Your Knees, Dribble Your Kicks

Don’t Throw Elbows, Just Do The Methood

Keep Close Proximity

Up and Down, Not Accross

The Tai Chi Form Moves Up and Down for Power

Sink Behind Their Knee

Test Everything with a Partner

Sink and Protect Your Integrity

Fine Tuning the Method with a Partner

Now Put Everything Together

Instantly 3D “ON” & Spherically Centered 3 Lessons

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Turn Everything on Right Now

The Position of the Posture Lends to Instant Response

Pressure Check Your Partner

Breaking 2 Boards (1 right after the other) with Hard Style Method 4 Lessons

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Hen and Ha in the Tai Chi Form to Practice Getting Good Breaths

Breaking Two Boards Using The Hard Style Method

How to Break Two Boards Using The Hard Style Method

You’re On “Right Now” Board Breaks

Introducing Knives to the Hard Style Method 4 Lessons

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Real Life Application

The Hard Method Using a Weapon

Hard Method Against a Bladed Weapon

Practicing Forearm Hits On Pads

Hard Style Method Against Multiple Attackers 4 Lessons

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The Hard Method Against Multiple Attackers

Stepping for Multiple Attackers

Positioning for Multiple Attackers

Waving Method against Multiple Attackers

Hard Style Method Against Surprise Attacks 4 Lessons

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Body Softness Against Surprise Attacks

Hard Method During Surprise Attacks

Adding Waving to Hard Method

Hard Method Take Downs

Clear Tai Chi Defense 20 Lessons

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Vibrating Body Against Grabs

Vibration Won’t Go Through Clothes Grab

Think About One Thing, Turn Fear Into Agression

Hen and Ha vs. Grabs

Adding a Waist Shimmy

Using the Shimmy for Speed and Power

Completely Cover and Ferociously Overwhelm the Opponent

Short Arms, Long Force Power, Far Mind

Play When You Spar, Go Slow, Safety First

Stay Out Big, Stay Bigger as They Close In

Aim at Their Head

Condense into them on Contact

Look Through Your Eyebrows

Before, During and After an Incident

On Timing and Positioning

Action Beats Reaction

Do Not Assume the Fight is Over

Train for Endurance, Control the Interaction

Don’t Provoke Your Attacker

This Method Can Eventually Teach How to Guard Other People as Well

Assembling the Method 12 Lessons

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Practice Slowly Against Various Techniques and Grapples

Practice with Speed and Aliveness

Regulate Your Breathing

Against a Knife, Stay Sunk, Use Your Kick

Keep Everything Going on then Add Heavy Stomps

Train the Method Through Play

Most Tai Chi Moves Go Through The Hard Method’s Starting Position

The Hard Method is Always Doing Tai Chi Moves

Solo-Practice

There is a Very Slight Lean in the Method

Pressure Testing the Method with a Partner

Snake and Crane Method

Concluding Remarks 2 Lessons

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Conclusion: Putting it All Together

Bonus: More on Hen and Ha Breathing