Links between Tai Tzu, Tongbei, Chen taiji and Shaolin?

[LFJ]

thats awesome.

yeah, sure. ask him about shaolin mianquan (cotton boxing).

[sha0lin1]

thats awesome.

yeah, sure. ask him about shaolin mianquan (cotton boxing).

LFJ, I asked him this weekend. He said that Shaolin Tai Ji is known as Shaolin Tai Ji and there is the 24 posture and 42 posture forms of it. I asked him about Mian Quan but he did not seem to understand because he kept telling me I already knew Lian Huan Quan..ha ha. So I asked him about Cotton Boxing and he looked at me really strange. I don't know maybe my Texmandarin was confusing him. Shifu speaks good English now but he sometimes has trouble.

[LFJ]

we know they are the same sets we're talking about anyhow.

it sounds to me that the name shaolin "taiji" would be a secular understanding of "internal" styles applied generically to shaolin's "version", simply calling it "shaolin taiji" without taking note of the difference with shaolin/ buddhism and other systems.

having a less generic name like "mianquan" would help narrow the historical search. but i have only just now heard of it being practiced outside of master deyang's school.

so i guess that helps a bit, but the name "shaolin taiji" probably wont get very far on its own.

thanks for your contribution, btw.