Master Huang Taiji essential

In this course you will go deep into the essence of the Taijisystem of master Huang Xingxiang. Your teacher – Torben Bremann – have had the great luck to learn directly and on one-on-one basis for extended periods from some of Master Huang’s very close and skillful students. Both students from the 1960s and 1970s as well as in his later years from the 1980s and up to his dead in 1992.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Foundational exercises

    • 1. Loosening & warm up exercises

    • 2. Wuji and basic connection Exercise

    • 3. Loosening Exercise 1 (Song Gong 1)

    • 4. Loosening exercise 2 (song gong 2)

    • 5. Loosening exercise 3 (song gong 3)

    • 6. Loosening exercise 4 (song gong 4)

    • 7. Loosening exercise 5 (song gong 5)

    • 8. Standing meditation: A foundation for movement

    • 9. Up and down movement

    • 10. Walking exercise - traditional taiji walking

    • 11. Introduction and opening of the taiji form

    • 12. Left ward off

    • 13. Grasp sparrows tail: part 1

    • 14. Grasp sparrows Tail: Part 2

    • 15. Single whip

    • 16. White crane spreads its wings and brush knee

    • 17. Play guitar and brush knee

    • 18. Step up, parry and punch

    • 19. Apparent close, cross hands and closing of the sequence

    • 20. First section of master Huang Xiangxian's Taijiform - the whole section

    • 21. Partner exercise 1: Learning to let go

    • 22. Partner exercise 2: Pushing shoulders and hips

    • 23. Partner exercise 3: Double shoulder roll

    • 24. Partner exercise 4: Slow push

    • 25. Basic connection exercise revisited

    • 26. Loosening exercise 1 (song gong 1): Level 2

    • 27. Loosening exercise 6 (song gong 6)

    • 28. Loosening exercise 7 (song gong 7)

    • 29. Loosening exercise 6 (song gong 6): With a partner

    • 30. Loosening exercise 7 (song gong 7): With a partner

    • 31. Loosening exercise 3 (song gong 3): Focusing on Qi