Grandmaster William C.C. Chen

Grandmaster William C.C. Chen started teaching Tai Chi Chuan at the beginning of the 1950s while training as a live-in student of the famous Great-Grandmaster Cheng Man-Ching who preferred to be called Professor Cheng. Besides being the youngest of Professor Cheng's senior students, he was also a favorite disciple.

In the 1950s he was involved competitively in the various free-style, Chinese Wushu. In 1958, he won second place in the Taiwan Nationional Olympic Competition.

Grandmaster William C.C. Chen has devoted his life to the study of body mechanics and the effects of Tai Chi Chuan for the art of self-defense as well as on physical health, and to the application of the principles of Tai Chi Chuan. His approach is to make Tai Chi Chuan simple, easy, natural, enjoyable, and productive.

He has been a teacher since 1952 in Taiwan, Singapore, Malasia, Thailand, Hawaii, and the West Coast. In 1965, he established the William C.C. Chen Tai Chi Chuan in New York City's Chelsea area.

He is invited to give special seminars on his Body Mechanics of Tai Chi Chuan on a regular basis in Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and throughout the United States.