Traditional Yang Family Tai Chi

There are five main styles of Tai Chi, with a number of variants. Today, Yang is the most widely practised and popular form of Tai Chi and it too has a number of variants.

The style owes its name to its founder Yang Lu Chan (1799-1872) and its popularity to his grandson Yang Chen Fu (1883-1936) whose influence shaped its form as it exists today. The characteristic features are:

• extended and natural positions
• slow and even movements
• curved and flowing lines

Today, Yang family successors, including two of Yang Chen Fu's sons continue the heritage that he left, hence the emphasis on this being known as Traditional Yang Family Ta Chi.

It is this form that is studied and taught by Eric Bell.