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When pressed on the issue, he called his form "Yang-style tai chi in 37 Postures." However, the postures in his form are counted differently from those in the Yang Chengfu form. In the older form each movement counts as a posture, whereas in the Cheng form postures are counted only the first time they are performed, and rarely or not at all ...
13 - Yang Family 13-Form; 13 - Chu style Yang form Long 108 and Short 37 movements; 14/16 - Guangbo (Guang-Bo) (a mixture of Chen, Yang, Wu, and Qigong that was done by factory workers in China) 16 - Yang Standardized; 16 - Chen Standardized; 16 - Actually Chen 4 Step (see above) popularly repeated in four directions of the compass (Zhu Tian Cai)
Now the most popular long tai chi form in the world, the classic Yang Chengfu form retains the health and self-defense benefits of the original 300-movement sequence in only 150 movements, most commonly divided by teachers today into 85, 88, 103, or 108 "postures" or stopping points.
The empty-hand form taught by Wu Tunan generally follows the 73 posture sequence of the old Yang style, and was developed with Yang Shaohou on the foundation of Wu Tunan's Wu-style background. It contains 37 core postures plus repeats and transitions, and instructors often present it in 50 to 139 moves.
Other Yang style schools may have significantly different enumeration schemes. The moves can also add up to 85, 88, 108, 113 [ 1 ] or 150 [ 2 ] depending on how they are counted. The book called Yang Shi Taijiquan ("Yang-style tai chi"), by Fu Zhongwen , breaks the form into each of its discrete movements.
Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art.Initially developed for combat and self-defense, [1] for most practitioners it has evolved into a sport and form of exercise.As an exercise, tai chi is performed as gentle, low-impact movement in which practitioners perform a series of deliberate, flowing motions while focusing on deep, slow breaths.
Wu Yuxiang began training with Yang Luchan, the founder of Yang-style tai chi, in the early 1840s after Yang returned to Yongnian from his years in the Chen village.Among their many properties the Wu family were the landlords of Chen Dehu's pharmacy and clinic, where Yang offered instruction in what he then called "soft boxing" (軟拳), "cotton boxing" (棉拳), or "neutralizing boxing" (化拳).
Yang Chengfu in the single whip posture c. 1930. Single Whip (Chinese: 單 鞭; pinyin: dān biān) is a common posture found in most forms of tai chi.Typically at the end of the posture the left hand is in a palm outward push and the right hand held most commonly in the form of a hook or closed fist.