How can Tai Chi be a fighting art?

Chen-style Taiji Quan, or simply Tai Chi as it's more commonly known here in the west, is best known for its slow movements and increasingly well documented health benefits. What is perhaps less well known is that it's actually a martial art built around the philosophy of Yin-Yang and the concepts of small defeating big and soft beating strong.

In the video below Sifu Kleber Battaglia (an Italian Wing Chun practitioner based in Shanghai) visits Chen Jiagou and spends time with Master Chen Ziqiang. Whilst there he discovers the the true martial power of Chen Style Tai Chi...