Videos: April 2007 Archives

32-step is an interesting routine.  It's much more complex compared to the 24-step routine, but in terms of combining styles it's still very Yang centric.  I liked the routine when I learned it, specially since it's more demanding and there are more curves built into it (I particularly loved the beginning of the form).  However, now that I think back, I think it would have been just as effective if I had started 42-step right after 24.  I don't think 32-step adds much value for somebody who wants to learn the competition form anyway.  Nevertheless, I found this nice demonstration of the form which I'm adding here as a reference:

Very nice Chen style demonstration by master  Chen Zheng Lei.  Sounds to me like a flavor of the old frame routine one.  I see a lot of common elements and sequences with the routine I know as the old frame routine one.  I have learned to accept that with old routines there is no "one" right form.  There are many verities, evolved and changed over time as each master taught his or her students...

  
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This is a great video demonstrating the simplified Yang short form - the 24-step Taiji. I will write more about the significance of the 24-step routine in a separate post:



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