For every Yin there is a Yang. In this case, the Yang is the Chen Tai Chi Form performed by Mr. Shawn Cartwright, Executive Director of TCCII. This form shows the obvious hard and soft, fast and slow movement of the original style of Tai Chi Chuan. Mr. Cartwright is a 20th generation Chen Tai Chi lineage disciple of Grandmaster Chen Quanzhong, the most senior of the Chen grandmasters. Although a meditative state is also required to properly execute this form, it is different from the Yang 24 form. The variations in style are important and the reason why many of the great teachers learn more than one style of Chinese internal Kung Fu!
The music featured on this video is “Spring Comes to the Snowy Mountain” from the “Rising Moon” Guzheng CD, by Bing Xia Available http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/BingXia
[...] Today, before breakfast, Shawn continued teaching us the old Chen Style Tai Chi. He does the original form, the one that dates back several hundred years. He told us that we [...]