Tai Chi Chuan Forms
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List of Tai Chi Chuan forms, postures, movements, or positions in order of number of forms:
Hand forms:
- 4 – Chen 4 Step is a subset of Chen Old Frame One (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
- 8 – Yang Standardized
- 8 – Chen Standardized
- 9 – Chen Old Frame (Master Liu Yong)
- 10 – Yang
- 12 – Yang
- 13 – Chen (aka Five Element Chen) subset of either Old Frame One or Small Frame (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
- 13 – Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined
- 16 – Yang Standardized
- 16 – Chen Standardized
- 16 – Actually Chen 4 Step (see above) popularly repeated in four directions of the compass (Grandmaster Zhu Tian Cai)
- 18 – Chen (Grandmaster Chen Zheng Lei)
- 19 – Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
- 24 – Yang (‘Simplified’, ‘Beijing’, ‘New Style’) Standardized
- 24 – Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (24 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
- 32 – Combined Form
- 32 – Chen Standardized “Fist” (New Frame)
- 34 – Wudang short
- 35 – Sun Standardized Short
- 36 – Chen Standardized (New Frame)
- 36 – Fu style short form tai chi ch’uan
- 37 – Yang (Zheng, Cheng Man-ch’ing) Short
- 38 – Chen (Grandmaster Chen Xiao Wang)
- 39 – Chen (Old frame 39)
- 39 – Chen (New frame 39)
- 40 – Yang competition
- 40 – Sun Family Modern Short Form
- 42 – Chen (Old form cannon fist)
- 42 – Combined Style Competition Form
- 42 – Sun Traditional Short
- 43 – Yang (Jiang Yu Kun)
- 46 – Yang Competition
- 46 – Wu competition
- 48 – Combined forms (This form, established in 1976, combined techniques from Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun forms, and was used as a Competition Form until it was replaced by the 42 Form Competition Form.)
- 48 – Chen Shi (Chen style) Xinyi Hunyuan Taijiquan (48 Form by Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang)
- 49 – Yang Demo/Family competition
- 49 – Wu (Hao) short form
- 50 – Li short form
- 53 – Fu style advanced tai chi
- 54 – Wu family competition
- 56 – Chen Competition
- 64 – Yang (Kuang Ping style)
- 66 – Combined Standardized (Lost, original content unknown)
- 67 – 67 movements Combined Tai-Chi Chuan form
- 67 – Fu style tai chi lightning palm
- 72 – Chen (New Form Cannon Fist)
- 72 – Huang Sheng Shyan Form
- 73 – Sun Competition
- 74 – Chen (Old Frame, First Routine, Lao Jia Yi Lu)
- 81 – Wu (Hao) Old Form
- 83 – Chen New Form (Chen Village)
- 88 – Yang Standardized (which appears to differ slightly from traditional forms of similar length)
- 96 – Wu (Hao) long form
- 97/98 – Sun Traditional Long
- 103 – Yang long form (The moves can also add up to 85, 88, 108 or 150 depending on how they are counted.)
- 105 – Fu style Tai Chi Ch’uan
- 108 – Taoist Tai Chi form
- 108 – Wu Chien-ch’uan style long
- 119 – Wudang long
- 120 – Tchoung_Ta-chen – Annotated Form
- 140 – Li form
- 229 – Tchoung_Ta-chen – Long Form
There are also many variations of qigong (ch’i kung) forms associated with different schools.
Weapon forms:
- 13 – Dong Yue (East Mountain) Combined Sword
- 16 – Yang Standardized Sword
- 16 – Yang/Combined Standardized Spear
- 13 – Yang Broadsword (Dao)
- 18 – Chen ‘Health’ Standardized Sword
- 23 – Chen Sabre
- 32 – Yang/Combined Sword
- 36 – Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan broadsword
- 48 – Chen Shi (Chen Style) Xinyi Hun Yuan sword
- 49 – Chen Sword
- 54 – Yang Sword
- 56 – Fu style tai chi seven star sword
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