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24 Form Tai Chi with Gold Medal Champion

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Uploaded by on Sep 13, 2008

The most popular Tai Chi form, Beijing standardised (simplified) 24 Forms. The performance is by Angela Hsu Cantafio, a gold and silver medal national and international champion. The form is demonstrated in side view. Angela's masterful play of Tai Chi is filmed in Sydney, Australia. Camera and editing by Dan Stefan, 2008.

More info and DVD Orders: http://angelacantafio.blogspot.com/

Music: Shanghai Folk Orchestra: "Birds Singing in Spring"

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  • Hello, one question,regarding your name, i would like to ask you if you are romanian?

  • After further review : the speed is a llittle slower then I'm used to. The alignment is different then mine, that's not to say it's incorrect. The setting is beautiful the Tai Chi is beautiful . Different but the principles are emphasized well. I give it a 9

    Thank youfor sharing your Tai Chi!

  • @Waxfiretape Thank you for taking the time to comment - I totally agree with what you have to say! The tempo is a bit slower than the standard while Angela performs every movement in coordination with the breath and so that the students can see every transition and change. I am looking forward to your upload of your own performance, pls feel free to post as a response to our video!

  • She's pretty good. I could see the flow of her energy very clearly during most of the set. But I'm used to a smaller circle form than I saw here.

  • 24 is a modern standard competion form and the frame is even larger; Angela's form has a much nicer flow and the execution is slower than the standard, while keeping to the modern format; certainly you will see this same form played in many various styles, some look nothing like the standard.

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  • @yangxiaojia1 Excellent assessment, with hip and waist along with arm connection/coordination she could be awesome, it seems far off, but with some instruction I'd bet she'd get it quite quickly.

  • 1 punch 1 k.o.

  • @DanShteFan

    Very pretty, and smooth. But no waist usage to indicate even potential for physical power, let alone Fa Jing potential. The waist and hip seem almost totally missing, and this seems like a dance. She just moves her arms, mostly independentally of her whle body. And thus this form prefomance is not Tai Chi, in any classsical sense. There is no connectivity exibited.

    James

  • @mlSigma yes

  • too slow and hard when u turn your back i can't see what u are doing.

  • Yes. They have "artified" this video, in addition to the music. It is the poster's dream world.

  • you can also see my wooden dummy 7 days work cost around 60$ ;-)

    very nice video ;-)

  • am i the only one who sees little rainbow flames above her hands? or am i crazyy?

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