Overview - Wang's Water Style Tai Chi

Wang's Water Style Tai Chi Chuan is a comprehensive martial arts system, created by Master Wang Zhuang Hong through a lifetime of dedication. Drawing from Wang Zong Yue’s Tai Chi Treatise as its theoretical blueprint and based on the framework of the Yang-style 85-Form, this system features a distinct commencement form unique to Wang's Water Style. This commencement form serves as the foundation for the entire set and symbolizes the essence of the Style, much like its emblem. The name "Wang's Water Style Tai Chi Chuan" reflects not only respect for Master Wang’s surname but also reverence for the ancient Tai Chi scholar Wang Zong Yue. The term "Wang's" emphasizes the art’s essence rather than rigid forms, distinguishing it from "Wang-style." The descriptor "Water Style" highlights the soft, flowing nature inherent to Tai Chi.

Three Major Innovations of Wang's Water Style Tai Chi

Three-dimensional Trajectories. Conventional Tai Chi adheres to circular movements but primarily operates in a flat plane. Water Style Tai Chi views the "Eight Gates and Five Steps" as a unified circular movement, using three-dimensional circular trajectories, thus freeing itself from the limitations of flat-plane movements and singular forces.
Transforming Root into Mobility. Traditional martial arts often speak of "growing roots under the feet," but Wang Zong Yue's Treatise describes the stance as "standing like a balanced scale, moving like a rolling wheel". Water Style Tai Chi interprets the “wheel” as a dynamic, flowing root, and the footwork must seek agility within relaxation and sinking.
Water as the Essence of Tai Chi. Water is the way of Tai Chi. Through the training method of "being like water", one transforms from solid to fluid in terms of intent and from rigid to soft in terms of physicality. This allows the body to harness and utilize both the pull of gravity and its counterforce, achieving the skill of “adhere, stick, connect, and follow; neither resist nor disconnect”.