{"id":5624,"date":"2017-02-11T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T16:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tambulimedia.com\/?p=5624"},"modified":"2023-07-24T14:53:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T18:53:42","slug":"training-principles-of-chengs-tai-chi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tambulimedia.com\/training-principles-of-chengs-tai-chi\/","title":{"rendered":"Training Principles of Cheng\u2019s Tai Chi"},"content":{"rendered":"
by Nigel Sutton<\/p>\n
Shifu Tan Ching Ngee was born in the small town of Muar in Johor state Malaysia. His father, an immigrant from Chaozhou, China was poor and the young Ching Ngee had to leave school to go out to work to help support the family.<\/span><\/p>\n Then the family moved to Singapore where Ching Ngee began his lifelong involvement with the martial arts. He started off training in Southern Shaolin before meeting Shifu Chen Yu He who had, in his youth, trained at the Nanjing Central Martial Arts Academy, and who was employed in Singapore as an instructor at the Jing Wu association. It was Shifu Chen (aka Tan Geock Ho) who introduced Ching Ngee to the internal arts and started him on the road which led to Taiwan and Shifu Cheng Man Ching.<\/span><\/p>\n Shifu Tan\u2019s approach to his art is systematic and carefully thought out and he is intent on developing a method by which his skills and those of his Shifu may be passed on to future generations. Here is an excerpt from an interview I conducted with him 20 years ago. The full interview and many more are featured in my book, Wisdom of Taiji Masters<\/em><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nTraining Principles<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n