Waterway wrote:I am curious though, is there any other starting form people in Taiji learnt other than 24 form?
A great number of traditional TJQ schools not only don't start with the 24 form, but don't teach it at all.
We don't even start teaching people the (Yang long) form until after a few weeks of working with them, on the individual basis, on the basics of how to shift weight and step while maintaining proper various "taiji attributes" (head up, loose, feet flat, spine straight, no height changes, expansion inside, etc., etc., etc.) The form starts after the individual had acquired (demonstrates) sufficient understanding of the basics of the taiji movement.
Form is a choreography, if you just go through the motions, then I can see how any form (and I mean, ANY form) can eventually be a very boring endeavor. I was standing the other night before the beginning of the class repeating one transitional movement for about 15 minutes straight. Not boring at all.