The 5 Major Taijiquan Styles

[Chapel]

Wow. When did new members start writing dissertations on Martial Forums? We are definitely attracting a new breed of martial artist.

Thrive... +Rep... you earned this one with either your blood sweat and tears or a lot of 'ctrl - c; ctrl - v'ing.

[TreacherousThrive]

I put the links at the very end of each paragraph as the last sentence, but they never showed up no matter how hard I tried, anyone know how to do it? I'll make another thread that discusses the differences later on today.

[47MartialMan]

Originally Posted by TreacherousThrive

I put the links at the very end of each paragraph as the last sentence, but they never showed up no matter how hard I tried, anyone know how to do it? I'll make another thread that discusses the differences later on today.

Scroll over in your browser-copy and paste...


or typt out the info in the url or address

[TreacherousThrive]

Here are the links, I apologize for taking so long.

sun-The History Of Sun Style Tai Chi, Tai Chi Website

chen- Chen Family Taiji/Taiji Historyand wikipedia

yang- TAIJIQUAN (TAI CHI CHUAN) STORIES & ARTICLES from All Over The World

ch'ang- The Peaceful Dragon - Ch'ang Style Tai Chi Chuan

wu- Wu Style UK - History Of Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan

[Bajifan]

Chang style isn't really considered one of the 5 "major" styles of taiji quan. It should be:

Chen
Yang
Wu (the one with the lean)
Wu (differenct character, from Wu Yu Xiang... sometimes called Hao style... the style Sun Lu Tang learned)
Sun

Anyway, my favorite is Sun style. I've done a bit of xingyi and bagua, so it came a bit quicker to me. I like the boxing like follow step that it employs. It feels much better on my body (particularly my knees).

[JadeDragon]

I like chen tai chi because it is slow and then all of a sudden it has a fast explosive like strike then it goes slow again.

[Blue Ninja]

I've studied mostly Yang, Chen, and now the freestyle, which is basically a Mix of the two.

[csc]

Originally Posted by Bajifan

Chang style isn't really considered one of the 5 "major" styles of taiji quan.

Why?

Chang is different from Yang and much different from others. It's the only Taiji system that uses the "13 Tai Bao" as the ZZ foundation.

[Chad]

Originally Posted by Martin2

Hi All,

some more information about Wu Tai Chi Chuan can be found here:

Forum for Traditional

All the best

Martin2

Hi, congradulations, you are now on the recieving end of my bad rep button for necroing.... twice

[MaliMisho]

He's necroing with spam and in more then just 2 threads.

[Chad]

In all fairness, it was only two at time of reading, leave me alone!!! XD

[Martin2]

Sorry for disturbing you piece.

I will try to delete my messages.

All the best

Martin2

[Chad]

Haha, don't do that man, it'll only attract more attention! lol