I'm not a frequent visitor to this thread and my Tai Chi experience is about 2hrs. of half-as*ed instruction and a ton of watching. My question is what are the different styles of Tai Chi, their ages, origins, specialties, basic descriptions?
Styles?
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Basics with broad ranging, non specific answers...OULobo said:
1) Chen... oldest, most overtly martial, almost external in nature at times. Dates back to about the end of the Ming Dynasty (give or take)... http://www.chenstyle.com/ for the bomb information. (I've practiced this for a couple of years Chen Zhen lei's 18 step)
2) Yang... 2nd oldest, used to be overtly martial, formulated by Yang Lu chan who was a servant of the Chen family for 10 years or so. (Just started learning 108)
3,4,5.....) Wu, Wu(Hao), Sun, GuangPing, Cheng man ching, Fu, etc.... all came after the main 2 branches. The two Wu's I'm not familiar enough with to discuss... Sun was found by Sun Lu tang who combined one of the Wu's with his existing knowledge of Bagua & Xingyi... Guangping is a offshoot of Yang, same as Cheng Man Ching (Did his 37 posture for a couple of years now too) ... Fu not familiar enough with...
