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title: Taijiquan Principles - Stepping Drill (Weight Shifting)
teacher: LowKickSlick - Longfei Taijiquan of San Antonio
runtime: 2 min
url: https://tai-chi.app/library/taijiquan-principles-stepping-drill-weight-shifting-Q1QF-8PH4qE
lang: en
source: Tai Chi — https://tai-chi.app
---


# Taijiquan Principles - Stepping Drill (Weight Shifting)

2 min with LowKickSlick - Longfei Taijiquan of San Antonio. Standing and unsupported. Works for balance and leg strength. Assumes some practice behind you. Runtime verified against YouTube, and where it fits in a session explained.

Taught by **LowKickSlick - Longfei Taijiquan of San Antonio**. Not hosted by Tai Chi — it is embedded from YouTube with attribution: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1QF-8PH4qE

- **Runtime**: 2 min (116 seconds, verified against YouTube on 2026-08-02)
- **Posture**: Standing and unsupported
- **Style**: Yang style — the most widely taught family, large slow circular movements and an upright frame
- **Trains**: balance, leg strength
- **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