How long (on average) to learn Yang form?

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Here is a dumb question, but don’t flame me please.

How long would you say it takes the average person to learn the Yang long form? I don’t mean all the intricacies, but just to get a general feel for all the movements, and be able to complete it on their own.

How long did it take YOU?

thanks

Iron

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As I recall, it took me about 6 months to memorize the pattern. I imagine you could do it in a lot shorter time, or a lot longer time. It kind of depends on you/your teacher’s balance between getting the basic idea of the postures and their order, vs. learning them in depth, which is going to take a lot of years anyways.

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Yang form

Took me 2 yrs… of course it took me almost a year before I knew WHICH form I was doing. My teacher just called it “taiji” or “exerscise.” We practiced for 2 yrs in his driveway 3 or 4 times a week. Sometimes for 10 minutes, sometimes for 2 hours. Just depends on how much I screwed up :slight_smile: