What’s the difference between “internal” arts like taiji (tai-chi), and all the other sports and body disciplines out there? What is there to an exercise that most people associate with old people and a mind-numbing slow tempo? I’ll explain to you why taiji is so fantastic for your health by talking about its down-to-earth physical [...]
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Chen Style Taiji Old Frame, First Form
There are at least 5 commonly recognized styles of taijiquan, and sometimes substyles of each of those. I’m a big fan of Chen style taiji, the original. In this article I’ll talk about and list the movements of the first form: ‘laojia’, from the lineage of 19th-generation successor Chen Qing Zhou.