Vol 21, Issue 3/2005

True to principle
Ma Tsun-Kuen style Taijiquan

Ma Tsun-Kuen immigrated to Argentina in 1973 where he began teaching his own personal style of Taijiquan to a small group of students, based on the teachings of the Taoist monk who had tutored him. Similar in form to the Yang style, this variety of Taijiquan is strongly geared towards realistic application. In an interview with Luce Condamine, Fernando Chedel, successor to Ma Tsun-Kuen and head of his school, tells about how he met his teacher and was immediately impressed of his abilities. Discussing special aspects of Taijiquan and the focus of his classes, he emphasizes how a harmony of slow and fast, yielding and advancing, and the soft and the hard is essential to achieving harmony of Yin and Yang, and how the constant interplay of these elements are the soul of this art.

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