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Wudang tai chi 武當太極拳
Date founded
mid 20th century
Country of origin
China
Founder
Cheng Tin Hung
Current head
Cheng Kam Yan (鄭鑑恩)
Arts taught
Tai chi
Ancestor arts
Wu-style tai chi
Practitioners
Dan Docherty, Ian Cameron
Official website
HKTaichi.com
Wudang tai chi (Chinese: 武當太極拳) is the name of a system of tai chi that was developed by a Hong Kong-based tai chi master Cheng Tin Hung. While Cheng never claimed to be teaching any particular school of tai chi[citation needed], his uncle was a disciple of the Wu-style tai chi, which may or may not have had some influence on his own approach to the art.
The Wudang tai chi system is now being taught in Europe by two of Cheng Tin Hung's disciples, Dan Docherty and Ian Cameron, both based in the United Kingdom. The system also continues to be taught in Hong Kong, and the current head of that school is Cheng Tin Hung's son Cheng Kam Yan (鄭鑑恩), whose school is called the Hong Kong Tai Chi Association.
Zhang Sanfeng, a highly mythologised figure said to be the founder of tai chi, lived in the Wudang Mountains and the name "Wudang" used for this tai chi system was used in order to acknowledge Zhang Sanfeng's status as the founder of tai chi. There are other schools of tai chi that also use this name.
The Wudang tai chi system is also known as “practical tai chi”. This name comes from that given to Cheng Tin Hung's style by various Chinese martial arts journalists in Hong Kong during Cheng's heyday, and from the school's assertion that its tai chi is eminently useful as a form of self-defense.
The Wudang tai chi system teachers publish that they have links to famous tai chi masters (see lineage diagram), including Yang Banhou, Wu Quanyou, Wu Jianquan, Cheng Wing Kwong, Chen Gengyun (陳耕雲) and Wang Lanting (王蘭亭).
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