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Good article. Needs an addition, however. Taoist Tai Chi can be taught by either a beginner instructor or a senior instructor with the same benefits to the person under instruction. This form, developed by Master Moy Lin Shin, has no competitive push hands, in the sense it can only be done for personal benefit. Taoist Tai Chi is a style that can be done by those with limited mobility and results are seen even if the 108 moves aren't done in a "physically challenging" matter. Throughout the years as a student of this discipline, I have seen people doing Taoist Tai Chi in a very basic form (hardly refined) and definitely having more than "psychological" results. Although I do not dispute this article, I believe it is terribly limiting to Tai Chi in general and could be more thoroughly researched.
-The Sciolist, humble student of Taoist Tai Chi

Hi, The Sciolist
Firstly, apologies for not spotting your comments earlier. The Tai Chi article has been edited, and as you may know, an edited article is an amended copy of the author's original. I have been monitoring the edited version of this article for contributions, and not my original. I'm sorry for the oversight.

As to the points you raise; I am not aware of Taoist Tai Chi and I would not presume to pass comment on it. However, there are a myriad of subsets of styles and teaching methods within each Tai Chi style. For example, within Cheng Man Ching's lineage, Masters Ko Ah Tee and Tan Ching Ngee have very different emphases to their teachings. However they both teach from the common base of Professor Cheng.

I would guess (perhaps wrongly) that Master Moy Lin Shin is teaching in a similar way. The 108 step form is the Long Yang form (one of the world's most widespread), and Master Moy is presumably using it as a tool for his own teachings. I would not decry that or demean that in any way. Perhaps if you could let me know his lineage of instruction I could understand more of his approach to the art.

The Yang family has a great history of push hands and martial challenges. Most Yang disciples that I have met promote hard physical effort to gain proficiency. If Master Moy has no wish to promote these aspects of the Yang Tai Chi then that is entirely his perogative; but that does not mean that a short informal article such as mine is poorly researched just because he is not included in it.