Functional Taijiquan

Fu Zhongwen: The form should be practiced six to eight times in a row each day. Only in this way can students catch the feeling of real kung fu. This is the way Yang Chengfu taught. The form itself should take 20 minutes give or take a minute or two. Too fast it becomes sloppy and too slow it becomes “stopped". Practicing six to eight times throughout the day is not the same thing and not as productive. It must be in continuous sequence. Once in the morning and once in the evening is good for health, but it does not lead to martial skill. The first couple times is warm-up and the fourth and fifth time you start to improve your kung fu.