Since Taijiquan (Tai Chi) is a principles-based art, the underlying principle is always the same, what changes is the complexity of its application. A 90 minutes class is structured like this:

  0 – 30 min: Standing Meditation
30 – 50 min: Silk Reeling Qigong
50 – 60 min: Theory and questions, if any
60 – 90 min: Forms

Teaching is the same for everyone from 0 to 60 min, and when we get to the Forms part, we separate the group in two or three, according to each person’s ease in remembering the choreography. This does isn’t related to actual internal skill, just to memory.

Group 1: Laojia up to the third Jingang Doadui (third stomp)
Group 2: Laojia up to end of part 2 (first half)
Group 3: all of Laojia