What are the different forms of Tai Chi, and how are they different?

I was thinking about learning Tai Chi, and I found out that there are different styles. What are the differences?|||Tai Chi was kept as a closely guarded family secret in China.





The "different styles" that you are talking about are the names of different families that developed their own techniques:





Yang,


Chen,


Sun,


Wu,


etc.





Each family technique has several different forms (katas.)


For example, in the Yang branch, there are:


Yang 10,


Yang 24,


Yang 40,


Yang 88,


Yang 108,


etc.





The numbers indicate how many moves are in the form.|||David - great lineage!