Why #TaiChi Drifted from Combat: History, Culture, and the Martial Identity Divide
https://daoofthewarrior.blogspot.com/2025/11/why-tai-chi-drifted-from-combat-history.html

// If future generations of #Taiji practitioners can comfortably say, “I practice #Taijiquan, a martial art that also cultivates health and clarity,” the long detour away from martial identity will have done its work. It ... preserved its subtle methods, and perhaps made it strong enough to stand again as both boxing and meditation, both method of self-defense and method of living. //