Competition
OPEN TAI CHI CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025
The 2025 TCAA Australian Open Tai Chi Championship, will be held on Saturday 15 March 2025 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.
Download the 2025 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.
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.
ARCHIVE
Information and results for previous competitions are contained on the Competition Archive page.