Wang Pei Sheng 37 posture [1/2]
37 posture Wu form developed by master Wang Pei Sheng, a student of master Yang Yu Ting Wang Mao Zhai Lineages In 1953, he finished a great work, the Wu Style Thirty-Seven Posture Form. At that time, he was teaching at the Beijing Industrial College. Some faculty and students complained to him that the traditional form took too long. At over 40 minutes, many of the busy college faculty and students often did not have time to finish one repetition of the form. So Master Wang had the idea for a short form. The first thing he did was to remove all the repetitive movements, so that trimmed down the form to just 37 postures. Then he edited and rearranged these postures to create a new form. The logic he used was to put some of the simple and easy movements in the beginning of the form, with some complex and difficult movements in the middle, and finally some quiet and relaxing movements in the end. He kept experimenting with the new form as he started teaching it to people. He thought it can be make even more efficient, using even fewer postures. He analyzed the form in detail. Recalling his own learning experience, he realized the traditional approach relied on countless repetitions to finally drill into the student what the correct feelings should be, teachers really didn't explain much in detail. Using this approach, it is only those who are naturally more sensitive and intuitive who finally acquired the skills. For many others the skills and concepts remained very <b>...</b>
