Videos: June 2007 Archives
The video is not of great quality since it's filming by a viewer at a competition, but the performance is rather nice. 42-step Taiji is the standard competition form, and has a combination of postures from various styles. Mostly Yang, but certainly Chen and Sun (I do not know anything about the other styles, so I can't tell). This is the routine that professor Li De Yin co-created. I started this routine when I lived in Pennsylvania, but I had to move before I finished it. Hopefully some day I will learn it again!
One of the good things about learning the Chen style for me is that I can go back and think more about how I'm doing the movements in Yang style. So for example, my 24-step movements are now rounder and more curvy. This is something that a couple of teachers told me at different points in time, and now I'm experiencing it first hand. Here is another demonstration of the 24-step by Su Renfeng - you can see how round and smooth the movements are:
