SYLLABUS Hand Forms

The hand forms are normally learned in the order Square Form, Round Form, Mirror Form and Reverse Form. Long Form Short Form

Weapon Forms

Weapon forms are also learned and performed as Mirror Form. Sabre Form - Xuan Xuan Do ( )

Sword Form - Qian Kun Jian (

Spear Form - 13 Techniques Spear ( Two Man Weapons Forms - (

Applications
San Sau ( sions

Die Pu ( ) to make the opponent fall and then hit him (or hit him so that he falls) Shuai Jiao ( ) grappling techniques including throwing, sweeping and tripping

Qin Na ( ) seizing and holding, including locking and grip strike techniques ) Dim Mak (Dian Xue) ( attacking vital points with locks, strikes, etc.

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) ) ) ) self-defense applications are divided into the following subdivi-

Advanced Short Form

48 San Sau Applications Number 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48

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Technique seven stars style grasping birds tail single whip ying oblique high and low raise hands and step up white crane aps its wings brush knee twist step stroke the lute parry, deect and punch as if shutting a door embrace tiger, return to mountain cross hands st under elbow step back repulse monkey needle at sea bottom fan through the back swing st cloud hands pat the horse high drape body to left and right separate legs left and right turn body and kick step forward punch down turn body and swing st step back seven stars to beat the tiger twist the body and kick box the ears parting wild horses mane fair lady works shuttle snake creeps down (low style) golden cockerel stands on 1 leg slap the face single hand sweep lotus leg punch the groin step back to ride the tiger double hand sweep lotus leg draw the bow to shoot the tiger double seizing legs break arm style gyrating arms tiger embraces head white snake spits out tongue vanguard arms ying ower palm 5 element arm running thunder hand single seizing leg

Note that techniques that the following pairs of techniques are very similar: 17 (swing st) and 24 (turn body and swing st), 1 (seven stars) and 25 (step back seven stars), 39 (double seizing legs) and 48 (single seizing leg). However there are 5 distinct techniques in the form that are not named as applications in the above list, these are: beginning style

Weapon Applications

Applications are taught for each weapon, but do not form part of the core syllabus and are not listed here.

Nei Gong (

Comprising 12 Yin (

Qi Gong (

Immortal Family Eight Pieces of Brocade (

Pushing Hands -

Training in understanding jin ( ) - force. This includes 13 tactics ( ) which comprises the 8 forces ( ) and 5 steps ( ), ting jin ( ) - listening for jin, hua jin ( ) - using jin to redirect the opponents jin and fa jin ( )discharging jin.

xed step -

4 Directions ( Zhou Lu (

   
completion style separate hands extend hands step up seven stars

) and 12 Yang (

) Exercises

) - Peng, Lu, Ji, An ( ,(

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 Fu Yang (

Reeling Silk (

moving step -

Da Lu ( ) - big diversion - Cai, Lie, Zhou, Kao ( ,( ) also called as 4 corners pushing hands ( also called 8 gates, 5 steps ( ) 9 Palace Step ( 7 Stars Step ( )

Gather the Wave (

Auxillary Exercises

single hand pushing hands ( push absorbtion training

xed step pushing hands (

restricted step pushing hands ( moving step pushing hands (

Six Secret Words (

These words represent practical ghting concepts.

Note

Items marked are taught, but do not form part of the core syllabus

Version 1.1: note this version contains minor corrections over the previous version Prepared for the Practical Tai Chi Chuan website http://www.taichichuan.co.uk by Kie Brooks Practical Tai Chi (Hong Kong) http://www.taigik.com along with other members of the Practical Tai Chi Chuan Research Group led by Dan Docherty

          
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