The fighting spirit of tai chi (2)

"So, I instruct my apprentices and help them spread Chen-style tai chi around the world."

His disciples have opened tai chi studios in 120 German cities and towns. Chen's oldest disciple is a 103-year-old American.

Chen innovated upon his family's traditional tai chi by developing a simplified version for mass consumption, called the "nine-posture Chen-style".

The family's martial art style was developed by his ancestor Chen Wangting in Henan province's Chenjiagou village. Nearly everyone can do tai chi in the settlement, where Chen was born in 1945.

His father required him to study the martial art from age 7. Chen would try to nap after school, but his father would make him get up to do tai chi.

Chen became enamored with tai chi after watching his father defeat a much stronger challenger.

He studied under his uncle Chen Zhaokui at age 10 after his father passed away.

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