Taijiquan in New York City?

[Dan]

The Big Apple is chock full of taijiquan instructors. Are any of them close to grtc?

I saw this: http://aymta.org/home/resources/aymtaschools.html
and this: http://www.williamccchen.com/

I wondered what advice might be found for finding a good school/teacher.

[Scott M. Rodell]

Few TJQ schools these days are "old school" martial arts schools; even GRTC-DC has ita share of students who come in for the form & some push hands & will never think of moving up to sanshou... that being said, just give any school that looks good a call & see if they practice the entire system or do they cherry pick a few things out of the system. If they have free sanshou, go check it out & see if the students are at least using some of the skills of TJQ. Don't expect the perfected art in the sanshou students, just look & see if they are working in the right direction, or if it is just another kick boxing class...

[Dan]

Thanks, I will!

[lpboyle]

It might be worth mentioning NYC is the home of Patience Tai Chi, the school of William Phillips who was a direct student of Professor Cheng Man Ch'ing (Zheng Manquing). While Laoshi Phillips does not practice the Michuan style of GRTC I can't really think of a much better school to go to for the 37 form. Just a student's $0.02