… "Nowadays, most other martial artists and even ordinary street fighters are able to take on any of the so-called Taiji masters and grand masters and defeat them with no trouble at all. Most of these Taiji people would have no hope of defending themselves in the streets. The reason? Taiji has lost its roots, its beginnings. What people teach as being representative of the whole art today is a mere shell of taiji's former glory." "There is a bittersweet irony about taiji's migration to the Wes …