Breathing and Warming Up Exercise 002 demonstration.
Warming Up Exercise 002 demonstration.
Long form demonstration 001. This is the original 108 long form Tai Chi.
Long form Group demonstration 002.
Long form Group demonstration 003.
Master Hong brought this style of tai chi to Australia in 1966.
Local Melburnians had never heard of tai chi at that time. He jokingly told them that this is a form of oriental ballet or shadow boxing.
Practising this form of taichi, Master Hong has maintained his youthfulness. His voice and agility have hardly changed over the last 55 years.
He has retained the names and movements of this form all this years, excepted for 南海推手法。我把平圆，立圆，双八單推法及吳式太极拳的七星步混合一起，以方便螳螂拳及摔角用法.
Master Hong advises that this form can easily be practised at home in conjunction with the qigong breathing exercises.
Short form demonstration. This simplied version contains about 30 movements from the original 108 movements.
Short form demonstration performed on 17/7/2023 at Mitchell plateau, Kimberley WA. This simplified Yang style taichi was performed on a small piece of slippery rock seated amongst pools of
calm and turbulent waters.
The performance was observed by many small black fishes swimming within the moving shadows casted by Master Boon Hung Hong.
This tai chi shadow boxing performance illustrates the martial arts principles of tai chi, ie, 柔中带剛，以柔克刚，动中求静 ,
meaning 'having internal hardness while displaying softness of external movements, overcoming external hardness with one's softness, and seeking tranquility while moving'.
Double Sword demonstration 001.
The following are the names of sword movements for the Dragon and Phoenix Double Swords (龙鳯双劍).
There are only five simple movements to remember 倒插步，树擺柳，蝶冲花，双蝶斗美，天龙掛柱。
This style covers 360 degrees rotation of your body, from the head to the ankles.
Taichi Application demonstration 004 Bao Fu Gui San
Taichi Application demonstration 005 Seow Tui and others.
Hsing Yi Group Practice Demonstration 001.
This is 形意五行拳or 岳家五行拳 It consists of five basic martial art movements 劈，崩，攒，炮，横 and 狸猫上樹.
I have added one more move at the end 反攒。These are the basic components of all different styles of modern 形意拳.
They originated more than a thousand years ago 岳飞将军(南宋). The Sung dynasty used them to train their front line soldiers.
Sticks or spears can be used with the movements and stances to face against the advancing enemy.
New recruits only need a short training period for them to be proficient in warfare.
Some historical notes and vintage videos leading to our current IYSTA Master Chang Tung Sheng created the first generation of our IYSTA taichi form. Chang Tung Sheng was able to use inputs from four common styles by five different masters at the Nanjing Martial Arts Acadaemy.
No one,then, was able to beat master Chang Tung Sheng in real combat.
Please refer to the attached video below, taken more than 70 years ago.
For more details on Chang Tung Sheng and the above video, please visit YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIMZKWOaWPI
Master Wu created the second generation of our IYSTA taichi forms. The following 3 videos show Master Wu, at 66 years old then, performing our long and short forms of taichi,
Hsing Yi, Praying Mantis, and the Broad Sword. (If possible, you should try to observe Master Wu's abdominal breathing, ie qigong, when he is doing the taichi form.)
Master Wu performing the Long Form.
Master Wu performing the Short Form.
The next video shows Master Wu performing Praying Mantis 螳螂拳一路（翻车） Tángláng quán yīlù (fānchē),
Hsing Yi's 5 basic moves 形意五行拳的，劈，崩，钻，炮, 横, Xíng yì wǔháng quán de, pī, bēng, zuān, pào, héng,
Praying Mantis Four Way Broad Sword 螳螂四法刀 Tángláng sì fǎ dāo.
Master Boon Hong (3rd generation) in his 30s' performing the single sword, broad sword, double sword, jing gan quan, and praying mantis.
This is the English Only version of the Integrated Yang Style Tai Chi sequence and names of movements.
In this version, the moves are written in Romanised characters (i.e. Ping Ying) with their English translation to the right.
