I’ve been studying with Master Wang since 2002. He his my primary source of tai chi and Taoist knowledge. I visited Master Wang at his home in Taipei, Taiwan at the end of 2021 and he asked me to make a page for him on my website. The videos below were hand picked by him to showcase Search Center as well as his style of doing the Cheng Man-ch’ing short form.

If you want to know more about Master Wang you can check out his website (searchcentertaichi.com), Facebook page, or YouTube channel.

Master Wang wanted to include this video because it’s when I met him in 2002. I was in my early 20s and very new to tai chi. My physical IQ was really high. I was on soccer and swim teams from grade school to high school. I was doing gymnastics as a hobby. And I had been studying Shaolin kungfu for more than 5 years.

This video shows that there is a big difference between “external” coordination and “internal” coordination.

In this video you can see a traditional push hands player having success against another traditional push hands player. After that you can see this same push hands player unable to neutralize Master Wang’s Search Center.

Even though tai chi and tai chi push hands are internal arts, Search Center takes internal skills to an extreme level. This video also showcases the different between internal and external coordination.

In this video Master Wang is demonstrating how Search Center can be used from any angle. This time from someone coming in from behind.

This video shows one of the ways Master Wang likes to practice doing Search Center. Search Center is primarily practiced through cooperation between the person doing the searching and the person receiving the searching. This is what that looks like.

This is Master Wang doing his version of the 37 short form. Master Wang stays extremely focused on working his seven principles: center, balance, coordination, proportion, concentration, circle, and relaxation. You can read about these seven principles on his website www.searchcentertaichi.com/seven.html.