New Stuff:

Advanced Old Yang Taiji Sword form DVD out soon! With Applications!

Bagua Staff form, and Double Dragon Swords form workshops coming soon.

Our Mission

To Promote the internal arts as they were originally intended.

As a deadly fighting art with amazing healing properties, building and balancing internal Qi, and teaching you realistic self defence methods for the street not the ring.

Trying to educate people away from the mystical garbage such as no touch knock outs that have given the internal arts a bad name.  

Instructors click here!

The W.T.B.A.

A down to earth approach to the Internal  Martial Arts.

No Mystical garbage just the truth about how amazing energy work can be.

Syllabus covering Taiji, Bagua, Wudang, Dim-Mak, Qigong etc.

All in their original form.

About Us

The W.T.B.A. is an organization of like minds from all over the world coming together
in friendship and harmony (well most times).

The W.T.B.A. was founded by Erle Montaigue in 1979.
We now have representatives in around 30 countries with well over 10,000 students being in some way associated with the W.T.B.A. as 'W.T.B.A. members'.

The W.T.B.A. has no uniforms or patches or other lofty names like 'Sensei' or Master
or Loucher etc. We are simply here to help each other up the ladder.

Erle Montaigue is regarded internationally as one of the leading instructors of the internal arts,
Erle began his martial arts instruction at the age of 11, he has been practicing the internal arts since 1968 leaning from Grand-master Chang Yiu-Chun one of only two disciples of Yang Shou-hou, grandson of Yang Lu-ch'an, the founder of the Yang style Taiji. And Ho Ho-choy, Bagua Master disciple of Chiang Jung-chiao
And is the only westerner to have been awarded the degree of Master from the
old Chinese Masters.

Eli Montaigue, now head of the W.T.B.A. has been training with his father Erle in the internal arts from the age of 4. Still training together every day.
Now holding seminars all over the world, keeping all our representatives up to date.  

Representatives around the world