Yang-style tai chi (Chinese: 楊氏太极拳; pinyin: Yángshì tàijíquán) is one of the five primary families of tai chi. Including its variations, it is the most...
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Wu-style tai chi (Chinese: 吳氏太极拳; pinyin: Wúshì tàijíquán) is one of the five main styles of tai chi. It is second in popularity after Yang-style, and...
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Chen-style tai chi (Chinese: 陳氏太极拳; pinyin: Chén shì tàijíquán) is a Northern Chinese martial art and the original form of tai chi. Chen-style is characterized...
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Yang Chengfu (1883–1936) was one of the best known teachers of Yang-style tai chi. He helped develop the art into its modern form. His students would...
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The Sun-style tai chi (Chinese: 孙氏太极拳; pinyin: Sūn shì tàijíquán) is one of the five primary styles of tai chi. It is well known for its smooth, flowing...
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Tai chi is an ancient Chinese martial art. Initially developed for combat and self-defense, it has evolved into a sport and form of exercise. Tai chi...
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internal style tai chi. He is known as the founder of Yang-style tai chi, the most popular and widely practised tai chi style in the world today. Yang Luchan's...
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Wu (Hao)-style tai chi (Chinese: 武(郝)式太极拳; pinyin: Wǔ (Hǎo) shì tàijíquán) is one of the five primary styles of tai chi. It was created in the mid-nineteenth...
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Beijing Northern Wu-style Tai Chi thirteen Dao (saber) 13 - Posture Poem Yang-style Tai Chi Dao Form 13 - Yang-style Dao 14 - Chen Tai Chi Dadao (machete)...
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103-form Yang family tai chi, also called the Traditional Form (or, Long Form), is a prescribed sequence of moves used to practice Yang-style tai chi. The...
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Cheng Man-ch'ing (category Chinese tai chi practitioners)
master Yang Chengfu (1883–1936), with whom he began to study Yang-style tai chi, until Yang died. While the exact dates of Cheng's study with Yang are not...
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Yang Chengfu (楊澄甫; 1883-1936), represents the third generation of Yang-style tai chi. Grandmaster of his generation and known for his compact "small frame"...
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Chi Society and associated national Taoist Tai Chi societies. It is a modified form of Yang-style tai chi developed by Taoist monk Moy Lin-shin in Toronto...
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Guang Ping Yang tai chi (Chinese: 廣平楊氏太极拳; pinyin: Guǎngpíng Yángshì tàijíquán) is a tai chi style descended from Yang-style tai chi. It claims to combine...
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Yang Jianhou (1839–1917), or Yang Chien-hou, was the younger son of the founder of Yang-style tai chi, Yang Luchan, and a well known teacher of the soft...
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Yang Banhou (Yang Pan-hou; 1837–1890) was an influential teacher of tai chi in Qing dynasty China, known for his bellicose temperament. He was the senior...
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martial artists. A son of Yang Chengfu and a great-grandson of Yang Luchan (the creator of the Yang style of tai chi), Yang Zhenduo was a fourth-generation...
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The Complete Book of Tai Chi Chuan. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 0-8048-3440-7. Simplified Tai Chi 24 form (YMAA tai chi) Yang style by Liang, Shou-Yu displays...
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The Lee style of tai chi (李氏太極拳) is closely related to a range of disciplines of Taoist Arts taught within the Lee style including Qigong, Daoyin, Ch'ang...
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Yang Zhenduo) and a grandson of Yang Zhenduo, he is a direct descendant of Yang Chengfu and of Yang Luchan, the creator of Yang-style tai chi. Yang Jun...
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Dong Yingjie (category Chinese tai chi practitioners)
Ying-chieh, Chinese: 董英傑, 1897 - 1961) was a leading master of tai chi, and a top disciple of Yang Chengfu. Born in Renze (then known as Renxian), Xingtai,...
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Fu-style Wudangquan is a family style of Chinese martial arts encompassing tai chi, xingyiquan, baguazhang, liangyiquan, bajiquan, and Wudang Sword. Fu...
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continuing adventure of Yang Lu Chan as he bumbles his way through learning Chen-style kung fu. Which is later named by the Prince as "Tai Chi", henceforth no...
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Moy Lin-shin (category Canadian tai chi practitioners)
qigong, a hybrid xingyiquan-yiquan form from Sun Di, Yang-style tai chi sword and Yang-style tai chi saber, a long list of Foundation exercises (Jibengong)...
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Tung Hu Ling (category Chinese tai chi practitioners)
1917–1992) was a master of tai chi, known for teaching Yang style and Tung style, and an early leader in the spread of tai chi worldwide. Born in Renze...
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Kuo Lien-ying (category Chinese tai chi practitioners)
of the twentieth century.[citation needed] He brought the Guang Ping Yang tai chi to the United States. Kuo Lien-ying's father was a silk merchant, and...
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Wudang tai chi (Chinese: 武當太極拳) is the name of a system of tai chi that was developed by a Hong Kong-based tai chi master Cheng Tin Hung. While Cheng...
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Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to the teaching, promotion and propagation of the Traditional Yang-style tai...
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Chen Wangting (category Chinese tai chi practitioners)
founded Chen-style tai chi, one of the five major styles of the popular Chinese martial art. He reputedly devised his style of tai chi after his retirement...
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form", an American tax form a type of census questionnaire Sub-styles of Yang-style tai chi The Short Form, a 1997 album by Raphe Malik Short (disambiguation)...
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