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title: Tai Chi Basics: How to side step in Chen Tai Chi
teacher: Tai Chi School
runtime: 3 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/tai-chi-basics-how-to-side-step-in-chen-tai-chi-p4tuMYChdcg
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Tai Chi Basics: How to side step in Chen Tai Chi

3 min with Tai Chi School. Standing and unsupported. Works for balance. Assumes some practice behind you. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **Tai Chi School**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4tuMYChdcg

- **Runtime**: 3 min (178 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing and unsupported
- **Style**: Chen style — the oldest family, alternating slow passages with sudden released power; the most demanding of the legs
- **Trains**: balance
- **Suits**: someone with a few months behind them, someone with an established practice
- **Intensity**: moderate
- **Phases it can fill**: Balance
- **Teaching style**: talks you through each movement as you go
- **Spoken language**: English

Tai Chi places this class into a session automatically rather than asking you to choose it: https://tai-chi.app