• GENERAL
  
• WUDANG SANFENG
  
• ZHAOBAO
  
• CHEN
  
• YANG
  
• WU (Wu Yuxiang)
  
• WU (Wu Jianquan)
  
• SUN
  
• HULEI
  
• OTHERS INTERNAL STYLES
  
  • XINGYI QUAN
  • BA GUA ZHANG
  • LIU HE BA FA
    
• WEAPONS
  
  • SWORD
  • SABER
  • SPEAR
  • STICK

TAI CHI CHUAN STYLES - WEAPONS

Each style has it´s own versions in the use of weapons. The weapons that are usually used within taiji boxing are: the sword, the sabre, the stick and the spear. Fan is also used. Some others are used too, for example: Da Dao (a "halberd" looking one) and another one wich is a tool made out of one stick and a bunch of filaments (I don´t know the english nor the spanish name. “fu zhen” is the fonetical transcription).

When reference is made to the practise of a form using one of these weapons, the name tai-chi chuan -or taijiquan- changes and the name of the weapon is added to "taiji". For exemple: taiji jian would be the name, in the case of the sword; taiji dao for the sabre; taiji quiang for the spear and taiji gun for the stick.

Other weapons: Fans, Halberds, metalic whips with 9 articulations, 3 section sticks... The "fu zhen" is shown in the following picture, (I have only seen taoist monks practising with it, in a masterly way).

At de link for the sword, besides the pictures, you will find some advices for the balancing.