Three forms: Woo Tsin Chuan (Arts of Awaking or Enlightenment), Shin Tsin Chuan (Arts of Practising), Tsun Tsin Chuan (Arts of Fulfilling or Accomplishment). Each form has one hundred actions. Three forms have three hundred actions and only have one hundred names though the movements of the three actions are different. Each action might consist of more than one movement.

Usually, Woo Tsin Chuan practices as a Soft Style - focusing on energy training; Shin Tsin Chuan practices as an Erratic Style - focusing on alacrity training; Tsun Tsin Chuan practices as a Hard Style - focusing on strength training. However, each form can also practice with all the three styles, which means three forms can have nine hundred different actions. Each form can practice with three levels of stances.

The three levels of stances are; High (suits young children, aged and sick people), Middle (suit amateur enthusiasts) and Low (suits professionals), altogether there are two thousand seven hundred actions and stances.

The one hundred English names (translated from Chinese) of the one hundred actions are:

1. Centering
2. Greeting
3. Declaration of sincerity
4. Martial greeting
5. Courteous retreat
6. Cut the mountain and find the way
7. Clean hands
8. Ward off harm and make it right
9. Come in and go freely
10. Divine child seeks road
11. Loung turns and dives
12. Loung plays in the sea
13. Cobra strike
14. Thunder clap
15. Lightning hands
16. Open clouds, shooting star
17. Rainbow appears
18. Lightning strikes
19. Flank attack
20. Ambush
21. Wind and fire wheels
22. Turn and sit on winter blossom leg
23. Pull stars to earth
24. Clear the way
25. Ghost hair-cut
26. Kick Tai mountain away
27. Punch red cliff and cause avalanche
28. Unstoppable
29. Kick tall mountain away
30. Kick south and north poles
31. Divide river in two
32. Falling mountain
33. Force to wave
34. East jade meets west
35. Divide south and west
36. Clear old away and present new
37. Turn and chat to moon
38. Pierce walls
39. Clash symbols to ears
40. Look left, look right
41. Frog catches fly
42. Naughty monkey boxing
43. Open window, volcano erupts
44. Close door, throw into gorge
45. Fly to sky to reach for sun and moon
46. Back to ground to flatten even mountain
47. Uproot Xiang Wang mountain
48. Slap Er Mei mountain
49. Shoot willow wand at 100 steps
50. 1000's of miles, wave after wave
51. Golden Loung plays with pearl
52. Red Phoenix approaches sun
53. Double cannon marches forward
54. Throwing stars in opposite directions
55. Double axe going down
56. Different ways come together
57. Follow stream, push boat
58. Swimming upstream
59. Turn the river and sea upside down
60. Comet impacts ground
61. Use force to carry 1000's of tons
62. High mountain, tall summit
63. Low valley, running stream
64. Ride horse for 100's of miles to look at flowers
65. Floating in boat for 1000's of miles and enjoy scenery
66. Sky is high, clouds are light, easy turn over the body
67. Travelling freely over earth and sea
68. Monkey picks chestnuts from fire
69. Horse jumps over mountain stream
70. Right turning tornado
71. Left turning thunder
72. Swallow fly's low over lily pool
73. After rain, swan flaps wings
74. Autumn wind strips leaves
75. Spring wind promotes the bamboo shoots
76. Mend the sky, and change the earth
77. Tunnel through mountain
78. Settle east and west
79. Look backward and forward
80. Golden cicada sheds its shell
81. Stirring the water to catch the fish
82. Cloud Loung stretches claw
83. One arrow shoot 2 eagles
84. Kick 2 mountains
85. 2 fists smash 2 city walls
86. Make low bridge to cross stream
87. Hammer mountain 3 times
88. Unstable in dream
89. Trying to stand in dream
90. Swinging gift in dream
91. Break 100 yards high wall
92. Turn 1000 kilos mill
93. Bird stretches on one leg
94. Sit and play music
95. 1 line, 2 points make balance
96. 3 angles make solid stance
97. 4 directions, 8 ways, go any way
98. Reach fulfilment
99. Practice for awakening
100. Attain Tsin at last

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