Tai Chi｜42 form Tai Chi ｜Amazing World Champion
The 42 Form (Competition Form, Mixed Form) t'ai chi ch'uan is the standard Wushu competition form which combines movements drawn from the Chen, Yang, Wu, and Sun styles of traditional T'ai chi ch'uan (Taijiquan). It was created in 1989 by Professors Men Hui Feng from The Beijing Sport Institute and Li De Yin from the People's University for the Chinese Sports Committee. The 42-form has been subjected to criticism for being a hybrid form, but in actual practice it has received a lot of positive attention as well, for being a challenging, fluid form which loads the body with energy (qi). Today it is a popular form for competition as well as for personal health benefits.
At the 11th Asian Games of 1990, Wushu was included as an item for competition for the first time with the 42 Form being chosen to represent T'ai chi. The forms are:
1.Commencing form
2.Grasp the peacock's tail (right)
3.Single whip (left)
4.Raise hands
5.White crane spreads its wings
6.Brush knee and twist step on both sides
7.Parry and punch
9.Deflect and press on both sides
9.Parry and push
10.Apparent close
11.Open and close hands
12.Single whip (right)
13.Punch under elbow
14.Turn body and push palm on both sides
15.Fair lady works the shuttles on both sides
16.Kick with heel on both sides
17.Cover hands and punch
18.Part the wild horse's mane on both sides
19.Wave hands like clouds
20.Step back and beat the tiger
21.Separate legs (right)
22.Strike opponent's ears with both fists
23.Separate legs (left)
24.Turn body and slap foot
25.Step forward and punch downward
26.Oblique flying
27.Snake creeps to the right
28.Golden rooster stands on one leg (right and left)
29.Step back and thrust palm
30.Press palm in empty stance
31.Hold palm up and stand on one leg
32.Lean with body in horse stance
33.Turn body for large roll back
34.Grab and punch in resting step
35.Thread palm and push down
36.Step forward to seven-star posture
37.Mount the tiger and stand on one leg
38.Turn body with lotus kick
39.Bend the bow to shoot the tiger
40.Grasp the peacock's tail (left)
41.Cross hands
42.Closing form
Taichi Genko,
Genko is Chinese martial arts master, a China Traditional Medicine, Doctor .
He aspired to become a martial arts from the age of 10 and traveled to China alone to study under master Zhang ChengZhong, Genko Nakamura received special education for gifted children from the martial arts team of Jiangsu China. Later, he studied under master Wu Bin as a fellow student of Li Lianjie aka Jet Li, and was found to have a natural talent in swordsmanship and spearmanship.
Starting with his win at the 1988 world championship, coming in second place in spearmanship and third place in swordsmanship, he received a total of 40 medals up to the gold medals in 2011’s Tai Chi world championship, in the categories of Tai Chi and Tai Chi sword.
From the year 2000 on, Genko served as the Japanese Olympic Committee’s martial arts training coach, and as the Japan Wushu Federation’s athlete committee training coach. The total of medals won by his students are a whopping 220 with 63 gold, 74 silver and 74 bronze medals. He has exhibited extraordinary talent as a trainer as well and is widely known in China, the home of Wushu, as a master martial arts /trainer.
Genko is Chinese martial arts master, a China Traditional Medicine, Doctor .
He aspired to become a martial arts from the age of 10 and traveled to China alone to study under master Zhang ChengZhong, Genko Nakamura received special education for gifted children from the martial arts team of Jiangsu China. Later, he studied under master Wu Bin as a fellow student of Li Lianjie aka Jet Li, and was found to have a natural talent in swordsmanship and spearmanship.
Starting with his win at the 1988 world championship, coming in second place in spearmanship and third place in swordsmanship, he received a total of 40 medals up to the gold medals in 2011’s Tai Chi world championship, in the categories of Tai Chi and Tai Chi sword.
From the year 2000 on, Genko served as the Japanese Olympic Committee’s martial arts training coach, and as the Japan Wushu Federation’s athlete committee training coach. The total of medals won by his students are a whopping 220 with 63 gold, 74 silver and 74 bronze medals. He has exhibited extraordinary talent as a trainer as well and is widely known in China, the home of Wushu, as a master martial arts /trainer.