Aside from Taijiquan, Xing Yi, and BaGua?

Or is that it?

I would think there were more. The ones you mentioned were the most popular ones.

Wudangquan is comprised of different schools under the Zhang Sanfeng Sect at Wudang.

Taiji, Bagua, Xing Yi, Baji, Tai Yi Wuxing, Liang Yi, Qigong.

There is also the Baxian or Eight Immortal School as well.

Under Wudang there are lots of forms for Wudangquan as well.

Zhen Wu Quan,
Tai Yi Wuxing Quan
Zhang San Feng Taiji 13 Postures
Bajiquan
Fuhuquan
Longquan

and many more...

You can go to www.chinawudang.com or to www.wudangdao.com to find out more.

If it's more in depth knowledge of wudang you can go to www.wudangtao.com

thanks

Definitely Wudang quan and related are considered s Nei Jia (Internal "Soft" style) versus the External (Hardstyle) of Shaolin and related MA's.

However, I thought that Ba Ji Quan is hard style and external. This is a style developed in northern China Hebei area. I've seen a friend from Tianjin demonstrates Ba Ji Quan and it looks so external and so energectic compared to Tai Ji moves, so I've never thought it would be classified under Nei Jia!

Some internal styles MA's has developed much that the current practitioner goes off on a different tnagle that what the orginal MA is intended. I remeber a case when a guy actually develops high blood pressure by practicing (wrongly) the Xingyi style of Internal MA. He simply applied the force wrong and been doing that for years, so now he is under Blodd Pressure medication ordered by doctor

That happens alot w/ amateurs.

Unfortunately, it is more than likely that Wudangquan is a rather "recent" invention. A kind of "marketing brand" created to compete with the other famous chinese "brand" - "Shaolinquan". So you can put in the "wudang" family whatever technique you want provided that this technique could be classified as "neijia"/intern. That's how Taiji, Bagua, and Xingyi came to be branded Wudang styles.


According to the legend, Taijiquan was created by a Wudang ermit, Zhang Sanfeng. However, there is no historical evidence that this legend is true. Prior to the 19th century, we hardly even get a mention of this Zhang Sanfeng story. How strange !

On the contrary, we know for sure that the Chenjia Taiji was developped by Chen Wangting (1600-1680) in Henan province. A Shaolin influence, or an influence of the Qijiaquan from Qi Jiguang (1528-1588), would be more likely, if really we were to search for the sources of Taijiquan.


Although only a modest practitionner of Tanglangquan, I believe that the so-called external styles have "internal" aspects, and that the so-called internal styles also have an external dimension. How unwise it is to try to separate the internal (supposedly "Wudang") from the external (supposedly "shaolin") ! Let us not grant too much credit to these "Wudang vs Shaolin" stories until we are at last provided with some solid evidence that Bagua, Taiji, Xingyi and others indeed really come from Wudangshan, which is still far from being established !

about historty of taiji quan, there are lots of questions. no one could give a certain answer for that.
wudang also has its own taiji. it's quite different from other styles such as Wu, Yang.



i agree! as a tai ji player, i am also being trained in some ways which are defined as external martial art. but my master told me that both are the two parts of one thing.as taiji said, 独阳不生，孤阴不长(single yang and single yin could not live on).