Sun Style 13 Step Tai Chi

The facts

Runtime

2 min (91 seconds)

Posture

Taught standing

Style

Sun style — high stance, short steps and no deep knee flexion, which is why it is the usual starting point for stiff or painful joints

Teaching

The teacher silent or near-silent performance to follow by eye.

Spoken cues

English

Verified

Runtime verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02. The number above is what YouTube reports, not what the title claims — titles routinely round a fourteen-minute class down to “10 min”, and the session timer budgets against the real figure.

Where this fits in a session

Every Tai Chi session is the same arc, and each class is eligible only for the phases it can honestly fill. This one can take one slot:

Form套路

Continuous choreography. The cognitive and postural core of the practice.

The engine will reach for it when you have asked for gentle and moderate intensity — intensity in tai chi being stance height and single-leg time rather than speed — and it suits someone with a few months behind them and someone with an established practice. Against the six things you can train for, it earns its place on attention, sequencing and memory; balance and steadiness on the feet. Choose one of those as your focus and this class becomes more likely to appear; choose something else and it will step aside for a class that serves it better. It will not appear twice in the same week if there is anything comparable to rotate to — keeping tomorrow from feeling like today is the selector's main job.

Is this safe for me?

Not if you are unsteady on your feet. This class asks for unsupported standing — the stance or the single-leg time goes beyond what can be done holding a chair, and pretending otherwise would be the kind of hedge this site avoids. If that is not you today, the library has classes taught seated instead.

The universal cautions apply here as they do everywhere: stop for sharp pain, chest pain, dizziness or breathlessness that does not settle; never force a knee past the toes; let the knee track over the foot. If you need to make a session easier, raise your stance before you shorten it. Tai Chi does not screen for contraindications and does not personalise around a diagnosis — the safety scope is written out in full, including what it refuses to do.

Classes the engine treats as neighbours

These fill the same slot for similar practitioners, which is exactly what the rotation draws on when it is avoiding a repeat.

• Chen Tai Chi First 5 Movements - Grandmaster Chen Zhenglei — Tai Chi Strong - Chen Tai Chi, 1 min
• Wu Style Tai Chi Chuan - 12 Form — Wu Style Toronto, 2 min
• Tai Chi for Beginners - Wu Style Short Form Moves 1 - 8 — Chicago Tai Chi, 2 min chair-friendly
• Chen Style Tai Chi Essential 18 Forms | Lesson 1 |Tai Chi Starting — Authentic China with Dawn, 2 min chair-friendly
• Tai Chi Exercises in a Chair : Martial Arts Training — eHowSports, 2 min chair-friendly
• MTAICHI - SEATED TAICHI - SESSION 10 (FOR THETFORD LIBRARY SEATED TAI CHI COURSE) — Traditional Li Branch Tai Chi, 1 min chair-friendly