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The Wu style's distinctive hand form, pushing hands and weapons trainings emphasize parallel footwork and horse stance training with the feet relatively closer together than the modern Yang or Chen styles, small circle hand techniques (although large circle techniques are trained as well) and differs from the other tai chi family styles ...
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).
The 108-Form Wu Family tai chi is a long and complex form, consisting of 108 movements that are performed in a slow, continuous, and flowing manner. It emphasizes the use of softness and yielding to overcome hardness and force, using circular movements and spiralling energy to deflect attacks and neutralize an opponent's force.
In 1914, Xu Yusheng established the Athletic Research Institute in Beijing and Invited Yang Shaohou, Yang Chengfu, and Wu Jianquan to teach. From then on, tai chi was taught to the public, changing the ancient closed-door policy where tai chi was only taught privately to people within a limited circle following the tutor-disciple relationship.
Tai chi also adopts the Taoist ideals of softness overcoming hardness, of wu wei (effortless action), and of yielding into its martial art technique while also retaining Taoist ideas of spiritual self-cultivation. [20] Tai chi's path is one of developing naturalness by relaxing, attending inward, and slowing mind, body, and breath. [20]
95 - Shanghai Jianchuan T'ai Chi Association Wu Style tai chi fast form; 96 - Wu (Hao) long form; 96 - Ma Yongsheng "New Tai Chi" 96-steps as taught in Nanjing Central Kuoshu Academy. Currently it is also known as Ma-family tai chi and as it covers the 8 directions, some called it Bagua tai chi. 97/98 - Sun Traditional Long
Indeed, today "tai chi is a practice that millions of people around the world participate in," says Dr. Paul Lam, a family medicine physician from Sydney, Australia, who has been participating in ...
When Wu Quanyou's son Wu Jianquan moved from Beijing to Shanghai in 1928, Wang Maozhai remained behind to lead the Wu-style Beijing group. He was the founder of the Beijing Tai Miao tai chi Research Centre. In 1929, the first documentary book on Wu-style tai chi "The record of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan" was published by Wang Maozhai with Wu ...