42 Tai Chi Sword form

Beautiful thanks for posting!!!!

It's hard to take this performance seriously when the third step is already incorrect.

Maybe youre being to critically then. :-)

I know a Chinese woman, who have been a instructor at Shanghai
Institute of Physical Education.
Its one of the best education center's in China, for instructors. (She lent me this vcd.)
She have trained Tai Chi almost her entire life. And where/is highly respected for her Tai Chi.

According to her, this performance is very good.

How can you be sure, that your "version" is more correct?
And why would anybody, distribute something with errors?

And furthermore:
She started Wushu at the age of 8.
she mainly taught Tai Chi, at S.I.P.E.
She has won several championships in shanghai, and represented China internationally.
She has passed the sixth Dan in Wushu from the "Chinese Wushu Association".

She currently lives here in Denmark.

I just found some more facts about her, which i wanted to tell you about. hehe

The third step is too close, and subsequently she can't properly turn her right foot as the left foot is in the way. If and when the third step is a half-step, the left foot won't be in the way and the right foot has room to turn.

yes i see that. (she compensates, by turning the last bit, on her foot-pad while her weight goes forwards.)

Actually, from a health point of view, it doesn't matter. But from a combat point of view, it does.

it reminds me of, when i was learning the 24 form in china, my teacher (in repulse monkey) stepped back, and turned the front foot differently, then from what i had learned in yang tai chi (Tung family), here in Denmark.
(1 out of 3)

I told her about it, and she to my surprise told me, that it didn't matter... Just do it naturally, she said.

She stepped back almost on a line, and turned the front foot, on her foot-pad.

I step back slightly wider, and turn on the heel.


I think that "my" way is better, because of a improved balance/more stabile stance (while shifting your weight backwards). But in the end, the result was the same.

(2 out of 3)

Some would say that its just a minor detail.

But if you have two options, and one option is more appropriate, then the other. As in yours and my example. Then i too would go for the option, that is the most appropriate.

But to say, that the one is more correct then the other, can be questionable.
Because in the end, it mainly depends on what your goal is. Health or martial application.

But thank you, for making me aware of it. :-)

(3 out of 3)

All of the techniques are classical techniques in this form. Only the order is new. In fact, it has just about all of the movements in the Yang form but 5. It also has many movements not in the Yang set. The sequence should not matter, and once a person is proficient, they SHOULD break sequence and apply their techniques and inovate.

esta bien pero faltan algunos movimientos!!!!!!