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Yang Style Tai Chi (List of Moves)

Yang Style 8 Form (aka 10 Form)

  1. Opening
  2. Repulse Monkey (right, left)
  3. Brush Knee (left, right)
  4. Part Horse’s Mane (left,  right)
  5. Wave Hands (left, right)
  6. Golden Rooster (right knee up, then left)
  7. Kick by Heel (right, left)
  8. Grasp Sparrow’s Tail (ward off, rollback, press, and push) – right, left
  9. Cross Hands
  10. Closing

Yang Style 16 Form

Moves in red are new additions to those learned in 8 Form

  1. Opening
  2. Part the Horse’s Mane (left, right)
  3. Half step, then White Crane Spreads Wings (left)
  4. Brush Knee (right, left)
  5. Deflect, Parry, and Punch
  6. Withdraw and Push
  7. Single Whip (left)
  8. Right Hand Strums the Lute
  9. Repulse Monkey (right, left)
  10. Fair Maiden Works the Shuttles
  11. Needle at the Bottom of the Sea
  12. Fan Through the Back
  13. Waving Hands Like Clouds (right)
  14. Grasping the Peacock’s Tail (right, left)
  15. Cross Hands
  16. Closing

24 Form

Moves in red are new additions to those learned in 16 Form.

  1. Opening
  2. Part the Horse’s Mane (left, right, left)
  3. White Crane Spreads its Wings (right)
  4. Brush Knee (right, left, right)
  5. Right Hand Strums the Lute
  6. Repulse Monkey (right, left, right, left)
  7. Grasp Sparrow’s Tail Left
  8. Grasp Sparrow’s Tail Right
  9. Single Whip (left)
  10. Wave Hands (3x to left)
  11. Single Whip (left)
  12. High Pat on Horse
  13. Kick by Heel (right)
  14. Box the Ears
  15. Kick by Heel (left)
  16. Snake Creeps Down (left), Golden Rooster (right knee up)
  17. Snake Creeps Down (right), Golden Rooster (left knee up)
  18. Fair Maiden Works Shuttles (right, left)
  19. Needle at Sea Bottom
  20. Fan Through the Back
  21. Turn Body, Deflect, Parry, and Punch
  22. Apparent Close
  23. Cross Hands
  24. Closing