Navigation: | Eli Montaigue (Erle's son, and now leader of the WTBA) Eli Montaigue is the head of the World Taiji Boxing Association, and was named as the successor by Erle to the Erle Montaigue system of fighting and healing. He was graded Master Degree in 2010.Eli has been studying the internal arts most of his life. Having been home schooled by his wonderful parents Erle and Sandy, he was surrounded by the arts from a baby. So growing up, mainly on big farms in Australia, Taiji and Bagua was more or less a normal part of life., Eli was 4 years old, when he started in Taiji, As he grew up, Erle would every so often show him a little technique of some sort while play fighting, so he was training in the arts with-out really thinking about it. So when it came time for him to start training seriously as he got older, he already had a good grounding from which to build from, and a good understanding of the art, and having been home schooled all his life, he already had a loose relaxed body, and a calm stress free mind.
Eli
has been teaching this system for 16 years now, (2018) Erle
handed all of this down to Eli in his lifetime, and named Eli as his successor
a few years before he died in 2011. Eli
now leads the WTBA, travelling all over the world to give seminars in any of
the 27 countries where there are WTBA schools set up, as well as being invited
to teach in other schools around the world. Eli’s
main focus in his training is to become the best teacher he can be, spending
hours working on new ways of breaking down the principles of movement to make
them easier to understand.
Due
to this students have found the learning curve cut in half when training with
Eli, he has a way of explaining things in plain English so everyone can
understand. |