Our school
Who are we?
The Gainesville Tai Chi Center is a teaching member of the Tai Chi Foundation (TCF), which is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to promoting, funding and teaching programs relating to the embodiment of Tai Chi Chuan. TCF exists to continue the teaching of the Cheng Man-Ch’ing style of Tai Chi Chuan (Yang style short form) as passed down through Patrick Watson.
The Tai Chi Foundation
The Tai Chi Foundation today is composed of over 250 instructors teaching Tai Chi classes in 30 cities around the world. Each teacher follows the curriculum and team-teaching method developed by Patrick Watson. All teachers are apprentices of the school who have gone through the school’s public curriculum and entered into apprenticeship, learning to teach the sequence of Tai Chi coursework. We gather together regularly to learn from Patrick’s senior teachers, the Legacy Holders, practicing Tai Chi Chuan form, push hands, and sword.
As a Tai Chi teaching school, our Center prepares our apprentices through a sequence of intensive trainings. This continued study helps our teachers maintain a consistency in method. Students can study at any of our branches and receive the same careful attention to the principles and details of the art of Cheng Man-Ch’ing’s Yang-style Short Form.