Yang Cheng Fu was the founder of the Yang Chengfu Tai Chi Chuan form in the early 20th century.

In 1927 he introduced this form to the outside world where it is now the most practised Tai Chi form.

However, in the last 100 years, it has been taught many times from teacher to teacher resulting in many changes made by different people.

They may have had the best intentions and the style may also have health benefits. However, if changes are made to the traditional Yang Cheng Fu form, the form should, (out of respect to the founder and the authenticity of the art) not be called the Yang Cheng Fu form.

There is no better way to learn the original Yang Chengfu form than from Yang Chengfu’s teachings or his disciples and direct descendants.

It appears there is no video available of YCF practising Tai Chi. However, on the Yang Chengfu page, you can find photos of him in many different Tai Chi poses.

In the following pages of this website, are videos of students and descendants practising the Tai Chi art as taught by Yang Cheng Fu.

Some of the videos are old and of poor quality but by studying and comparing them, you can see the moves of the original Yang Chengfu Tai Chi form.

Fu Zhong Wen was the main disciple of Yang Cheng Fu. He practised the form with YCF for many years and is known to never have made any changes.

After comparing the moves of these Masters I noticed very little difference between them. 

Particularly the videos of Master Zhao Youbin. His style is identical to Fu Zhong Wen's and his videos are better quality and more suitable to learn from; Therefore, we use them as instruction videos for our U3A Tai Chi classes.

I hope this information will encourage teachers and students to preserve or restore the Yang Chengfu Tai Chi Chuan form to the Traditional Yang style Tai Chi the way it was practised by Yang Cheng Fu.

Alex