Comments on: What are the different forms of Tai Chi, and how are they different? http://www.sharaagustina.com/Tai-Chi-Qi-Gong/what-are-the-different-forms-of-tai-chi-and-how-are-they-different/ You Ask, We Reply! Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:02:05 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: David N http://www.sharaagustina.com/Tai-Chi-Qi-Gong/what-are-the-different-forms-of-tai-chi-and-how-are-they-different/comment-page-1/#comment-915 David N Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:17:55 +0000 http://www.sharaagustina.com/Tai-Chi-Qi-Gong/what-are-the-different-forms-of-tai-chi-and-how-are-they-different/#comment-915 Tai Chi was kept as a closely guarded family secret in China. The "different styles" that you are talking about are the names of different families that developed their own techniques: Yang, Chen, Sun, Wu, etc. Each family technique has several different forms (katas.) For example, in the Yang branch, there are: Yang 10, Yang 24, Yang 40, Yang 88, Yang 108, etc. The numbers indicate how many moves are in the form. Tai Chi was kept as a closely guarded family secret in China.

The "different styles" that you are talking about are the names of different families that developed their own techniques:

Yang,
Chen,
Sun,
Wu,
etc.

Each family technique has several different forms (katas.)
For example, in the Yang branch, there are:
Yang 10,
Yang 24,
Yang 40,
Yang 88,
Yang 108,
etc.

The numbers indicate how many moves are in the form.

]]> By: Sensei Scandal http://www.sharaagustina.com/Tai-Chi-Qi-Gong/what-are-the-different-forms-of-tai-chi-and-how-are-they-different/comment-page-1/#comment-916 Sensei Scandal Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:17:55 +0000 http://www.sharaagustina.com/Tai-Chi-Qi-Gong/what-are-the-different-forms-of-tai-chi-and-how-are-they-different/#comment-916 David - great lineage! David – great lineage!

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