Styles and Forms We Practice

We practice both standard forms and traditional forms at Gu Feng Tai Chi Club. The introductory form is based on Yang Style. The traditional form practice currently is focused on Chen Style. Form practice is supplemented with Silk Reeling exercises incorporated into our class warm-up.

24 Posture Simplified Yang Style Form

二十四式简化太极拳

An empty hand routine, the Chinese National Sports Committee authorized the country's four most renowned Tai Chi experts to compose this form in 1956. Since then, this form has become the most widely practiced in China and now in the West.

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22 Posture Combined Form

二十二式太极拳

Created by our lead instructor, combined moves from 42 and 48 forms.

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32 Posture Yang Style Sword Form

三十二式太极剑

Created by masters and experts in China in the 1950s, this is the most popular Tai Chi sword form practiced in China and in the West.

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48 Posture Combined Form

四十八式太极拳

Created in 1976 by three Tai Chi experts headed by Professor Men Hui Feng, this form combines postures and applicable movements from Yang, Chen, Wu and Sun styles. It was intended as a more challenging form for those who had already become proficient in the standardized 24. It is very popular in China. The 42 posture form (see below) is a modified version of this 48 posture form.

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42 Posture Competition Form

四十二式太极拳

In the late eighties, the Chinese Sports Committee authorized the creation of four standardised competition forms (Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun) and a fifth interstyle form, the 42, which combines postures, applicable movements, and transitional movements from the four styles. It is also to some degree a more challenging rearrangement of much of the 48 posture form.

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42 Posture Competition Sword Form

四十二式太极剑

Combining Yang, Chen, Sun and Wu styles, this sword form was created by the Chinese National Sports Committee to advance the level of Tai Chi sword practice and as a standard competition form to compliment interstyle competition along with the 42 empty hand form.

Traditional Chen Style Form: Old Frame First Routine

(Lao Jia Yi Lu)

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Traditional Chen Style Taiji sword (49 postures)

陈式太极剑

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