"When you do the forms, you relax. The mind has to be relaxed in order to be joyful and make progress to the other levels. To complete the moves of the form with a continuous flow is the hardest to achieve, even at the senior level. The form's continuous coordinated motion is beautiful. Coordination deteriorates with age, but with the practice of tai chi chuan, this won't happen. ... on the differentiation of tai chi chuan taught at the Beijing Physical Culture Research Institute into different styles, Yang and Wu after 1914: It was the students who began to define what they were learning from the instructors who taught it to them while they studied with the masters from both families. We didn't say the styles were different; the students said they were different because of the form instruction."
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Wu Yanxia, daughter of Wu Gongyi - quoted in T’ai Chi The International Magazine of T’ai Chi Ch'uan Vol.19 No.3, June 1995
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