Tung Ying Chieh Fast Form Tai Chi Chuan

Tung was a senior student of Yang Chen Fu and also studied with Li Xiang Yuang. He fought the Yang school challenges and is featured with Yang in the classic photos of Yang demonstrating the fighting applications of the form. Tung’s small frame fast form is comprised of the moves he found to be most useful in combat and is actually a combination of slow and fast movements. It was taught to me by a senior student of his who studied with him in the 1940’s and ’50’s.