I have been practicing Tai Chi since the early 90s. As a native Cantonese speaker, I have dabbled in translating some of the Tai Chi Classics and also portion of the book by master Wong Yongquan.

My Sifu, master Sam Tam, excels in multiple martial arts, but is most famous for his Yiquan and Yang Tai Chi. In my opinion, every martial art teaches you how to generate power, but the specialty of Yang Tai Chi is 走化, loosely translated as Yielding. Of course other Tai Chi and martial arts have “yielding”, but I am specifically talking about 走化.

More on that later.