the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

Small segment of the TaiZuQuan learned by Liu Yunqiao and demonstrated by Linda Darrigo.
This form was learned by Liu Yunqiao before his time with his baji teacher Li Shuwen, in fact it may have been the first form he learned followed by mizong

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=61&v=hUuOUzhoXAY[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... UuOUzhoXAY

Teacher Linda Darrigo performing just a sample of a rare Kung Fu form, TaiZu Quan Chang Quan or Great Emperor Long Arm Boxing. Some scholars believe this to be the origin style for Tai Chi Chuan and also the first branch of "Long Arm" Kung Fu."

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Who taught her this?

She has trained with Sifu Adam Hsu.

This TaiZhu Quan is completely unrelated to that which served as the root of Chen TJQ.
Entirely different style.

In the video, TaiZhu means simply Ancestral and comes from MiZhong and is from Hebei and Shandong areas before it went to Taiwan.

The TZQ that is the root to TJQ is from Henan, and it comes from Emperor founder of the Sung Dynasty, Zhou Kwong Yin, and he is being referred to as the Great Ancestor of the art. They are not much the same, other than being "long fist". The frame is different, and more ideas are different.