Taichi China

 
Welcome to Taichi Page

Who are we?
I am christopher British National, Allan is Chinese, we are long term friends and my teacher!
I am from UK, living in China 15 years, Allan is in Shenzhen just over the border from Hong Kong.
Why this page and classes?

 Let's offer some background to help understand our purpose and our strategy and genuine purpose ''We'' Allan and Me Chris (aka) Yi Yang created and promoted the Art to you guys. 

Friendship

I met Allan while living in China, and we connected in early 2010 if I recalled, he was interested in learning English and learning more about foreign lifestyles, Additionally about starting a business that I was running in Shenzhen for years.

We spoke mainly via WeChat china's famous app that grew from the QQ standards, but better,
We planned to meet in person many times but for one reason or another denied that event, finally in 2019 on a return trip to China from the UK we causally enquired about our lives, and boom, a plan was formed to meet and discussed possibilities.

Allan has always been in Martial arts, Taichi boxing, and Taichi, also Kung fu, his idol was Bruce Lei, Jackie Chan, and Jet Lei, famous characters of the art.

He once told me he imitated how they behaved in the early days, however, developed his own approach and was genuine in his quest to be top in his field.

Telling me the history of how he started, his mentors and masters, and the competitions in mainland China and hong kong he attended, with accolades as long as your arms. 

Impressive and not boastful just plain factual. Allan by nature is a gentle unassuming guy anyone would get on with and humble in many ways too, speaks English at an intermediate level too.
He wouldn't let me pay for lunch, even invited me to meet his family, saying to his son to regard me as Uncle Chris..lol

 

We spent more time getting to know each other's goals and ideals, finally spending time on the mountains videoing some of his movements with stunning scenery sometimes accompanied by his son and wife. Allan took me under his wing to learn the art too.

Starting and our Plan

One Eventful day we sat down after a workout to discuss how we could promote his dreams and goals of taking his taichi worldwide, allowing others to learn this beautiful activity and its related philosophy.
I started by offering to write blogs on his experiences, the benefits to participants of this activity, its philosophy, who can do it, and why they should engage in it.

It was crystal clear that everyone and anyone could adapt this art to their own speed, strength, and daily life, what's even more interesting is the more you learn the more you are drawn into the philosophy and culture as I found out personally.

Website Promotion

I took it upon myself to open a blog site called Chinese4idiots, a strange name, thanks to Mum in the USA for that one? the site was my way of expressing my life in China offering advice and travel information on all you need to know from money matters, apartment, nightlife, love, working teaching, or startup business as this list is endless, and experienced.

The site was popular, however, I had a debate with the host company and I had to park it up until I could spend more time and give it my full attention, ...W.I.P

What is Taichi?

Anyway back to Taichi, Taichi- (some refer it as Tai jie) is first based on philosophy, cultrally acquired, traditions and a defensive mechanism origonally.  Taichi is about the flow if Yin and Yang, the global balance of  everything we know, feel think, spirit and inner self equibrium.

The icon is the black and white entangled sperm-like shape in a circle as below. a representation or good and bad, hot and cold, high and low, life and death, in effect BALANCE!

Allan provided the videos and when I was around training with him I would do the videos live. samples of these are online here for your viewing, you are seeing Allan in person and can appreciate his level of English. remarkable for one that was self-taught.

We had agreed on offering classes feely to interested viewers, and give them the opportunity to engage with a teacher of experience, teaching ability, and compassion to newbies,  something he is doing in schools, academies, events, social venues, and private groups around Shenzhen where he lives, many foreigners are his students, tai-chi chuan.

For Allan, this goes past making money and he seeks it to leave a legacy for himself, he has the talent, capacity, and mindset to achieve it.

My Distractions

I have been back to the UK, USA, UKRAINE so some neglect on my Facebook blog and page has but I have in the past few months reconnected and pushed his dreams and goals, we have also spoken about keeping it going and depending on your responses to go live, given the time zone differences of course but that's the way we would like to see this develop a global school for everyone at all levels.
What we Need from you (yin yang)

We don't seek special favors what we do hope is that you are honest and give us your feedback so we can improve and provide better engaging scenarios that gain your attention and fulfill your needs.
We don't seek special favors what we do hope is that you are honest and give us your feedback to improve and fulfill your needs.

Thanks for your time and interest see you on our page with many videos of china its culture, lifestyle, quirkyness, humor, family insights, ages, timelessess!

come join our community ask qiestions!

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Allan and Chris
ni hen gao xin ( we are happy to see you )