Gilman Studio - Courses - Yang Style Tai Chi Special 34 Movement Short Form. This form was created and condensed from the traditional Yang Style Long Form.
It was shorted for several reasons. The most important was to fulfill the need for a form that could be learned in a short time and still retain the flavor and principles of Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan. The Hand Forms Yang Cheng-fu Taught. There are 58 unique Fixed Posture photographs, taken shortly before Yang Cheng-fu died, that he said are the way the postures are to be performed.
Those photographs are the standard and final authority on Yang Cheng-fu's ultimate teachings and are reproduced in the Sets as the benchmark for Yang Cheng-fu Tai Chi Chuan. Regardless of what is taught as Yang Cheng-fu's style, if a posture does not conform with those depicted in these photographs, the style has been modified, and one should not claim to be teaching Yang Cheng-fu Tai Chi Chuan. The Fixed Postures cannot teach a student how the moves are performed, but they do show the position one should be in at a given, frozen, point in each posture. The modern great iconoclast of classic Kung Fu related the following well known Chinese story to me, which is apropos to Yang Cheng-fu's style of Tai Chi: "There was a master artist who painted a beautiful picture of a shake. Yang Cheng-fu's Tai Chi is rooted in three Chi principles.
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