Canterbury’s Barry Phelan more than held his own when he took on some of the world’s top taijiquan exponents at the World Championship in Singapore – he came home with a medal. The 54-year-old, who teaches at the town’s Wugong Academy, captained the British team and won bronze in the men’s sun style (73 movements) C-B despite competition from elite athletes, many of whom were half his age. “I was up against elite athletes, some of them in their 20s, many of them from countries where taijiquan (also known as tai chi) has a long and deeply-rooted tradition,” he said. “To bring home a bronze meda…
