Our Group
We make a serious effort to train the specific taiji system taught by Patrick Kelly, the only non-Chinese "inner school" student of Huang Xingxian. Our group is led by Charlie Liu, a novice student of Patrick. An article by PK (in both Chinese and English) on HXX and the path we try to follow in this group here.
Our main aim is to develop ourselves internally; both our fixed pattern push hands (precise partner exercises used as collaborative training tools) and meditation are key components of our practice for developing the deep mind, and we introduce both from day one.
Training Curriculum
We follow a very specific and systematic approach to training refined by Patrick Kelly based on his own efforts to organize what he learned from Huang Xingxian. A typical practice session in this school would include:
Instructor Bio
Charlie has trained taiji 20+ years (and external martial arts for 5+ years before that) and has barely scratched the surface of real taiji. He started this group in March 2021 to build a local community for training Patrick Kelly's specific system as precisely as possible. Tim Suh, Guillem Bernado and Christine Schneider support this effort by visiting to give live seminars several times a year.
Charlie began studying taiji in 2001 with Liam Comerford, a student of Zheng Manqing. Through that class he met Ben Lo (Luo Bangzhen), who he practiced with on a weekly basis in San Francisco from 2008-2010. He has been training Patrick Kelly's approach since meeting PK in 2014, studying with PK's student Tim Suh in Chicago from 2015-2017 and attending workshops since with PK and his students.
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