Sun Style

 
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Sun-style Taijiquan

The founder of the Sun-style Taiji boxing was Sun Lutang (1861-1932) from Dingxian County in Hebei Province. Sun was a master of Xingyi Quan (free-mind animal-imitating boxing) and Bagua Zhang (Eight-diagram Palm). In 1911, he followed Hao Weizhen to learn the Wu Yuxiang style of Taiji. He later created the Sun style of Taiji boxing by blending the Wu Yu-Hsing style of Taiji, Xingyi Quan and Bagua Zhang. Typical of Sun-style Taiji is that practitioners advance or retreat freely, connecting to each other in closing or opening stances when the direction is changed.

—from Neigongquan Association,
http://www.steve.reilly.zen.co.uk/neigongquan/shortani.htm,
David Nicholson performing.