Tai Chi Chuan, Qigong, and Yoga Classes in Portland, Oregon.
24 Posture Simplified Yang Style Tai Chi Form
Performing in the video above is Jiamin Gao who teaches at the US Wushu center here in Portland. She is a champion Tai Chi performer in China.
Section 1
1. Side step, open form (palms float up), hold ball
2. Part Wild Horses Mane (slant fly) x3
3. White Crane Spreads Wings
4. Brush Knee & Push x3
5. Play Guitar (strum lute, play pipa)
6. (step back) Repulse Monkey x4
Section 2
7. Hold Ball, Grasp Sparrow’s Tail left (roll back, press, push)
8. Grasp Sparrow’s Tail right (roll back, press, push)
9. Single Whip
10. Wave Hands Like Clouds (cloud hands) x3
11. Single Whip
12. High Pat on Horse
Section 3
13. Separate Right Heel (kick right)
14. Two Fists to Ears (box tiger’s ears)
15. Kick with Heel (left)
16. Snake Creeps down, Rooster on One Leg (right)
17. Snake Creeps down, Rooster on One Leg (left)
18. Fair Lady Works Shuttles (right & left)
Section 4
19. Needle at Bottom of the Sea
20. Fan Through Back
21. Deflect, Parry, & Punch
22. Apparent Close Up
23. Cross Hands
24. Close Form
Comments · 24 Posture Simplified Yang Style Tai Chi Form
Thanks for this list David and your comment (taken in context at last Fridays Tai Chi class) that watching you do the form was the worst thing one could do. Internalising/integrating the movements is what is important.
Jim
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Jim Prior
Jan 29, 2009