No! This is sport form, not original form, what circular chi you are writing about? The goals are very different. Here they use standard stances from sport wushu. The stretches are used in traditional taijiquan too for stretching and improving the body stance. Practicing with weapon also need stretching of the arm and body for better reach. Not all practices in taijiquan are directly connected to qi practices. With crooked body stance the circular flow of qi is broken as well, as it is with most of the taiji practitioners today, who have zero basic training and their qi practices are useless because of the crooked body. And this taolu is NOT based on Yang shi taijijian, although there are some Yang shi taijijian movements. It is based on Wudang taijijian. Excellent performance!