How many moves are there in the complete Form?
I asked my grandfather’s teacher that same question when I was twelve years old. He had begun learning Tai Chi from Yang Lu Chan, and then under Yang Jain Hau, and while his style was quite different from that of Yang Cheng-fu, his answer applied to all of Yang Tai Chi. “There is but one move. It is continuous, without interruption.” As stated, Supra, I once counted 242 individual postures. That was in 1967, when my brother and I created Kenpo for Self Defense, Tai Chi for Life. I may have missed a few, but it is so trivial that I never revisited the matter.
