If you want to learn Chen-style Tai Ji Chuan, it is better to learn 56-style competition routines or traditional routines first. Please tell me and give me some advice.

Chen-style Tai Ji Chuan routines include: Old Frame One Road, Old Frame Two Road, Pushing Hands, New Frame One Road, New Frame Two Road, Single Sword, Single Knife, Type 56 Competition Routine, Small Frame Routine, Big Staff, Double Sword, Double Sword, Double Mace, Spring and Autumn Sword, Gun, Chen-style Taiji Changquan 108, etc.

The 56-type competition routine is based on the above traditional routines. So I want to practice the 56-style competition routine, and practice the traditional routine first.

To practice traditional routines well, I personally think it is better to learn from the old routines, because learning the old routines is the stage of cultivating solid basic skills, and it is also the only routine for exercise or fitness, even to the competitive stage. The reason is that the strength of human lower limbs has been strengthened through repeated practice of the old frame all the way. Only with a solid foundation can we achieve the goal of staying in the middle and strengthening our spirit, and then achieve the goal of getting used to wearing.

The three stages of learning from Tai Ji Chuan are to seek softness from rigidity, to seek rigidity from softness, and to combine rigidity with softness. Therefore, study the old methods well and get through the stage of just seeking softness as soon as possible. Through the practice of the old rack all the way, let the body learn to relax inside and outside, and slowly get rid of the stiff and clumsy forces formed in the production of the day after tomorrow, laying a solid foundation for the next stage of learning.

Practicing boxing in the old frame is also a stage of nourishing inner strength. Only when the inner strength is full can we intentionally guide qi and transport the body with qi.

Therefore, learning the old routines all the way is to prepare for learning new routines, small routines and other Chen-style Tai Ji Chuan routines in the future, and also to prepare for physical exercise, fitness or competition.