Hand Forms
• Long
• Short
• Advanced Short
Practice
• Square
• Round
• Mirror
• Reverse
Weapon Forms (Including applications)
• Sabre
• Sword
• Spear
Cheng’s 48 Self Defence Techniques
1. Seven stars style
2. Grasping the bird’s tail
3. Single whip
4. Flying oblique (high and low)
5. Raise hands step up
6. White crane flaps its wings
7. Brush knee twist step
8. Stroke the lute (pipa)
9. Parry and punch
10. As if shutting a door
11. Embrace tiger return to mountain
12. Cross hands
13. Fist under elbow
14. Step back repulse monkey
15. Needle at sea bottom
16. Fan through the back
17. Swing fist
18. Cloud hands (Turning hands)
19. Pat the horse high
20. Drape body (left and right)
21. Separate feet (left and right)
22. Turn body and kick with the heel
23. Step forward punch down
24. Turn body and swing fist
25. Step back seven stars
26. Beat the tiger
27. Turn the body and kick (Two raisings of the foot)
28. Box the ears
29. Parting the wild horse’s mane
30. Fair lady works the shuttle
31. Snake creeps down (Low body style)
32. Golden cockerel stands on one leg
33. Slap the face
34. Single hand sweep lotus leg
35. Punch the groin
36. Step back to ride the tiger
37. Double hand sweep lotus leg
38. Draw the bow to shoot the tiger
39. Double seizing legs
40. Single seizing leg
41. Break arm style
42. Gyrating arms
43. Tiger stretching (Tiger embraces head)
44. White snake spits out tongue
45. Vanguard arms
46. Flying flower palm
47. Five element arm
48. Running thunder hand
Other Techniques
• Beginning style
• Completion style
• Extend arms
• Step up seven stars
• Break the door (Use the forearm to force the door)
Types of Self Defence Applications (Sanshou – Scattering hands)
• Die Pu (To make an opponent fall and hit them or hit to make them fall)
• Shuai Jiao (Grappling techniques – including throwing, sweeping and tripping)
• Qin Na (Seizing and holding – including locking and grip/strike combinations)
• Dim Mak-Cantonese Dian Xue-Mandarin (Attacking vital points with locks and strikes etc)
Six Secret Words (Fighting concepts)
• Borrow
• Shake
• Twist
• Chop
• Lever
Pushing Hands (Tuishou)
Jin training - ting jin (listen for Jin) Hua Jin (redirect jin), Fa Jin (Discharge Jin) Incorporating 13 Tactics (8 powers & 5 Steps)
Fixed Step Drills
• Four Directions - Peng, Lu, Ji, An
• Zhou Lu
• Fu Yang (Bow down, look up)
Moving Step Drills
• Da Lu - Cai, Lie, Zhou, Kao (Also called: 4 Corners or 8 Gates 5 Steps)
• 9 Palace Step (Reference to the 8 trigrams with the Tai Chi symbol in the centre)
• 7 Stars Step (Reference to the 7 stars of Great Bear constellation)
• Gathering the wave
Other Training
Partner training
• Single hand pushing hands drill
• Cloud hands drill
• Beginning style drill
• Push absorption training (Seaweed - slang term from Katherine Allen)
• Static punching pad
• Running punching pad
• Fixed step freestyle push hands
• Restricted step freestyle push hands
• Moving step freestyle push hands
Solo Training
• Cloud hands
• Single hand sweep lotus leg
• Back bends
• Brush knee twist step 8 gates
• Punching with weights
• Handstands
• Forward rolls
Nei Gong
12 Yin and 12 Yang exercises
1. Golden tortoise
2. Embracing the one
3. Lifting the golden plate
4. Jade rabbit facing the moon
5. Red-capped crane stretching its feet
6. Civet cat catching rats
7. Flick the whip on the left and right
8. White app pushes out its paws
9. Swallow piercing the clouds
10. Leading a goat smoothly
11. Giant python turns its body
12. Elephant shaking its head
13. Tiger paw
14. Golden dragon coiled around a pillar
15. White horse ponding its hooves
16. Plant the fence left and right
17. Wu Gang chopping laurels
18. Rhinoceros faces the moon
19. Reclining tiger stretches its waist
20. Monarch of the mountain coming out from a cave
21. Boatman rowing the boat
22. Hungary eagle looking for food
23. Macaque leaping through the trees
24. Old man burning cinnabar
Qi Gong
Immortal family eight pieces of brocade. (Not part of original syllabus – Origin Cheng Wing Kwong)
The Tai Chi Chuan Classics
Five important historic texts:
• The Canon of Tai Chi Chuan
• The Fighter’s Song
• Interpretation of the Practice of the Thirteen Tactics
• Song of the Thirteen Tactics
• The Tai Chi Chuan Discourse