Can Tai Chi practitioners deal with martial arts like Karate and Tae Kwon Do?
Yes, as outlined above, once mastered, with trivial seeming ease. As a result of my personal observations of Tai Chi and other marital arts (including my own prior experience with Tae Kwon Do) I’m convinced that Tai Chi (once mastered) can deal with anything the disciplines of Karate, Tae Kwon Do, and Judo can produce. However, Tai Chi is not an easy art to master, and the other arts are more effective in the short term. But at some point Tai Chi does catch up and continues to improve far beyond what practitioners of Karate and other hard martial arts can hope to achieve. Tai Chi masters have frequently demonstrated they have no difficulty in dealing with such martial arts, while the practitioners of hard arts, more often than not, don’t even know what hit them.
