LIST OF TAI CHI CHUAN FORMS

List of Tai Chi Chuan forms, postures, movements, or positions in order of number of forms:

Contents

Hand forms

Weapon forms

See also

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

★ 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.)

★ 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 - Annotated Form

★ 140 - Li form

★ 229 - Tchoung - 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

★ 49 - Chen Sword

★ 54 - Yang Sword

★ 56 - Fu style tai chi seven star sword

See also

★ Chen style (陳氏)

★ Yang style (楊家)

★ Wu or Wu/Hao style of Wu Yu-hsiang (武家)

★ Wu style of Wu Ch'uan-yü and Wu Chien-ch'üan (吳家)

★ Sun style (孫家)

★ Tchoung style

★ Pushing hands