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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chen style of the martial art tai chi, that for generations was kept within the Chen family of Chenjiagou, was taught to the first outsider, Yang Luchan...
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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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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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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 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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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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Practise of Tai Chi and the Song of Sparring handed down in the Yang and Wu families. Texts by Wu Yuxiang, a central figure in Wu (Hao)-style tai chi, and his...
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Wu-style tai chi fast form is a suite of fast forms publicized in Wu-style T'ai chi Fast Form. Empty hand or fist form list published in Ma Yueliang's...
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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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Man of Tai Chi is a 2013 Chinese-American martial arts film directed by Keanu Reeves in his directorial debut. It also stars Reeves, Tiger Chen, Iko Uwais...
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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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Zhaobao tai chi (Chinese: 趙堡太極拳; pinyin: Zhàobǎo tàijíquán) is a style of tai chi that is often considered to be a modern style, but actually has a strong...
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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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Wu Jianquan (category Chinese tai chi practitioners)
Wu-style tai chi in late Imperial and early Republican China. Wu Jianquan was taught martial arts by his father, Wu Quanyou, a senior student of Yang Luchan...
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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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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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Yin-Yang. Independent. ISBN 979-8-6678-6786-9.[page needed] Woolidge, Doug (June 1997). "The International Magazine of Tʻai Chi Chʻüan". Tʻai Chi. 21...
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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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