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OPEN TAI CHI CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024

The 2023 TCAA Australian Open Tai Chi Championship, will be held on Saturday 225 May 2024 in New South Wales at the Niagara Park Stadium, 18 Washington Ave, NIAGARA PARK, NSW 2250.(Next to Niagara Park Railway Station, an hour from Hornsby Station)

Participation is OPEN TO ALL TAI CHI ENTHUSIASTS. Please register as early as possible, and tell all your Tai Chi friends to register to perform or to come and enjoy watching.

The closing date for registration is 27th April 2024.

Download the 2024 Regulations and Registration Forms:

DIVISIONS

For TaoLu Individual, there will be separate male and female divisions, and age divisions.

For TaoLu Team, there will be only Bare Hands, and Apparatus divisions.

For Push Hands, there will be male and female divisions, and Weight division.

Please read the Regulations, register early, practise a lot until your TaoLu (and push hands if applicable) becomes smooth, easy, no tension, expansive, and effortless, yet full with internal power that can be felt even by an observer. And most of all, come and enjoy the fellowship.

AWARDS

Awards within a Taolu event will be Gold, Silver and Bronze. Push Hands will have Gold and Silver only. TaoLu events of a division with less than 3 participants will have medals awarded by Placings.

FORMS DURATIONS

Bare Hands forms sequence (taolu) will be timed as follows:

Standard Bare Hands “24 Yang/24 Beijing/24 Short Form” (between 3 and 5 mins).
Standard Bare Hands “Combined 42” (between 4 and 6 mins).
Family Forms “Yang, Sun, Wu2, Wu3, Chen” & “Others” (between 3 and 5 mins). These will be “participant-composed” sequences of any of the five major styles and “others”. They can be composed by truncating any form you have already trained in, standard or not, so as to be completed between the duration specified.
Team Bare Hands of any above styles (between 2 and 6 mins) with music allowed.

TCAA TaoLu Competition Rules: TCAA follows the IWUF 1999 Rules as they are easier to implement, and yet provide a clear distinction of quality of TaoLu performance. TCAA does not consider it necessary to follow the IWUF 2005 Rules, especially as they require more resources. Click here to view the IWUF 1999 Rules.

PUSH HANDS COMPETITION

Moving Step: Push hands is the "MOVING STEP" contest on rubber mats. The size of the arena is a circle of 4 meters diameter. Rules for safety will be tightly enforced as always, so we do not injure friends.

Non-TaiChi Participants: We are also opening the Tai Chi Push Hands to non-Tai Chi participants, but they must be from the Kungfu Arts, and MUST comply with the Push Hands Rules which are designed with safety as essential requirements.

COVID19 MANAGEMENT

In organising this Event, TCAA will be required to comply with NSW and Venue imposed Covid19 control procedures.

State governments can, at short notice, impose conditions that TCAA and competitors may not be able to meet. Accordingly, if TCAA has to cancel or defer the Competition date, or a registrant has to withdraw, the TCAA will accept the withdrawal and return any fees paid.