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Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Mon Jan 15, 2024 8:05 am
by Bob
Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Mon Jan 15, 2024 12:26 pm
by wayne hansen
Some nice clips there
I hope someone cleans up the older ones
I would love to know the source of the Wu weapon forms
Clearly not the same source as the yang
Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:13 pm
by Bob
Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Mon Jan 15, 2024 3:24 pm
by wayne hansen
The book you are thinking is most likely HH Liu
I think it’s called technique of power
Thinking of the Square form my student Richard was Ma,s sons first non Chinese student in Holland and he learnt the square form so it was in Ma,s line
Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Tue Jan 16, 2024 11:45 am
by Steve James
From what I've been told, the square Wu form is a teaching device useful for teaching many students in a standardized way. It was common in HK Wu/Ng family practice, but not in Shanghai. I don't know about Malaysia or Beijing. Anyway, the point is that it's a 'learning' form leading eventually to the round form -or practicing in the round way.
Imo, it's hard for people to learn to do the form 'round' or circular, anyway. So, most start doing it in a square way -deliberately or not.
Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:25 pm
by wayne hansen
When I first learnt Wu it was at SW Uni
This was a Malaysian line
I started the course in the second semester
Apart from having to catch up on the moves I had missed I thought they were very stiff and square so I was rounding out the moves
It wasn’t until we finished the form and the teacher informed us that the following year we would learn the circular form
I think the square form is a great method of teaching and a rear gem
I later learned the square form from scratch under two more teachers as well as revision from my first teachers brother
From my last Wu teacher I learned 3 forms
The Square
The Circular and
The Circular Continious
I have never seen anyone else do this form although I have see parts of it in some CTH schools
Both the Square and Circular Continious are essential for application
Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Sat Jan 20, 2024 2:24 pm
by MostlyWu
The guy in the first post isn't doing a Wu style that I recognize. Nothing like Chu Minyi's form, nor Cheng Wing Kwong(just above), nor others that I have seen do the form who trained with WCC. The Repulse Monkey is Yang style'ish, as is the angled back foot, as is the upright posture, among other things.
I can't speak to the earlier Wu style (say 1910-25, give or take), but by 1931 the style would've been more like what Cheng Wing Kwong practiced above, and what Wu Ying Hua practiced (as shown in multiple video clips, and books), if not exactly that.
I agree with others that it is more of a Yang variant, though I'm not qualified to opine on that too much. Maybe even a hodge podge. Certainly don't see Wu style in there.
Re: Wu Family Tai Chi - Master Wei Xiaotang
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Sat Jan 20, 2024 6:03 pm
by wayne hansen
Don’t forget Wu is a Yang varient
I thought the same about Repulse but he is pushing off the back leg like Wu not the front like Yang