What are the different forms of Tai Chi, and how are they different?
Tai Chi was kept as a closely guarded family secret in China. The “different styles” that you are talking about are the names of different families that developed their own techniques: Yang, Chen, Sun, Wu, etc. Each family technique has several different forms (katas.) For example, in the Yang branch, there are: Yang 10, Yang 24, Yang 40, Yang 88, Yang 108, etc. The numbers indicate how many moves are in the form.
