Other Hao Shaoru disciples and students include Pu Gongda (, 1905-1997), a lifelong martial artist who began training with Hao Shaoru in the 1960s, established the Shanghai Wu Style Taijiquan Research Association with Hao in 1983 and served as president of the organization, and trained thousands of students including British and Americans; taijiren.cn/details/11141.html - accessed March 22, 2021 Hao's adopted son Li Weiming (, 1944-), also a master of tui na and traditional Chinese medicine, who began training with Hao Shaoru in 1961 and now teaches in Shanghai and Bangkok; Li Jianqing 2006, pp. 262taijiren.cn/details/16388.html - retrieved March 22, 2021 and Hao's adopted son Hao Yinru (, 1958-), who changed his name from Wang Muyin () and now teaches in Shanghai.Li Jianqing 2006, pp. 262 In 1991 Hao Yinru wrote a new foreword to a new edition of Hao Shaoru's book,  Wu Style Taijiquan  .Hao Shaoru 1999/2006, Foreword The Li Baoyu lineage has preserved this form relatively unchanged, as documented in the 1998 book 郝式太极拳 (Hao Style Taijiquan) written in collaboration with Li Baoyu's daughter Li Guihua. There are some minor variations among schools in Hebei and Shanxi,See videos in "External links" but only in the worldwide Dong family t'ai chi sub-branch is this form significantly slowed down and smoothed out. That version retains the evident internal strength and structure that has led the Dong lineage to call this their "Hard Form" (in contrast to their primary Yang form), and it still includes some fa jin moves. They perform  in about eighteen minutes, giving advanced students time to focus on the unique Wu (Hao)-style internal training it offers, because this is the only Wu (Hao) form in the Dong curriculum. But in those schools it is supplemented with Dong family fast forms, which include sections that incorporate techniques and principles Dong Yingjie learned from Li Baoyu, in the old slow-swift tempo.Alex Dong Tai Chi Online, retrieved July 28, 2020 Wu (Hao)-style weapons forms include, with some variation among the lineages and individual schools, straight sword (, Pinyin: jiàn), saber/broadsword (, Pinyin: dāo), and staff (, gùn, or often , gǎn, "pole"). Although spear methods () are mentioned in a 19th-century manual by Li Yiyu, they are seldom practiced today. However the staff forms and drills for one and two persons include many spear-like movements, similar to Yang-style sticking and thrusting pole practice and unlike the rotations of Chen-style spear  .Yao Jizu 1999/2010, Chapt. 4-7 Wu (Hao)-style t'ai chi is based on principles shared with other styles, especially Yang style. For example, Yang Chengfu's "Ten Essential Points" are quite similar to the Wu (Hao)-style "Thirteen Important Points" listed above, and in fact Wu Yuxiang has been named as the source of the Yang essential points list by some writers in the Yang-style lineage.Wile 1983, p. 27 Chen-style masters also teach these essentials with a few additional points, most notably the concept of internal spiral energy paths. Feng, Zhiqiang and Chen , Xiaowang ( 1996 ) , Chen Style Taijiquan, Morning Glory Publishers,  Other points of comparison include the many posture names and ordering of the empty-hand forms that are shared with Yang style and a few with Chen style,Li Jianqing 2006, Chapts. 3-4 and the similarities with Yang-style weapons forms noted above, as well as similarities and differences on fundamental principles such as the Wu (Hao) style's focus on shifting and sinking vs. the Yang style's focus on shifting and twisting, though both styles contain all of those internal principles, just as all styles require the practitioner to clearly distinguish between "empty and solid" (, , xūshí) weighting during those movements. Yang, Banhou (, 1875*), 太極法說 (Explaining Taiji Principles), available free online in Chinese and English translation at Brennan Translation - retrieved July 12, 2021 (*Scholars estimate the publication date to be between 1875 and 1910, and believe the author  to be Yang Banhou and/or his disciples.) Yu, Gongbao ( 余功保,  2013), (Dong Family Taiji: Dong Yingjie Taijiquan Tradition and Essentials), (Contemporary China Publishing House), Zhang, Shan ( 张山 , 2014), , The Competition Routine of Wu Style Taijiquan, Second Edition (English and Chinese edition), Shanxi Science and Technology Press,
Other Hao Shaoru disciples and students include Pu Gongda (, 1905-1997), a lifelong martial artist who began training with Hao Shaoru in the 1960s, established the Shanghai Wu Style Taijiquan Research Association with Hao in 1983 and served as president of the organization, and trained thousands of students including British and Americans; taijiren.cn/details/11141.html - accessed March 22, 2021 Hao's adopted son Li Weiming (, 1944-), also a master of tui na and traditional Chinese medicine, who began training with Hao Shaoru in 1961 and now teaches in Shanghai and Bangkok; Li Jianqing 2006, pp. 262taijiren.cn/details/16388.html - retrieved March 22, 2021 and Hao's adopted son Hao Yinru (, 1958-), who changed his name from Wang Muyin () and now teaches in Shanghai.Li Jianqing 2006, pp. 262 In 1991 Hao Yinru wrote a new foreword to a new edition of Hao Shaoru's book, ( Wu Style Taijiquan ) .Hao Shaoru 1999/2006, Foreword The Li Baoyu lineage has preserved this form relatively unchanged, as documented in the 1998 book 郝式太极拳 (Hao Style Taijiquan) written in collaboration with Li Baoyu's daughter Li Guihua. There are some minor variations among schools in Hebei and Shanxi,See videos in "External links" but only in the worldwide Dong family t'ai chi sub-branch is this form significantly slowed down and smoothed out. That version retains the evident internal strength and structure that has led the Dong lineage to call this their "Hard Form" (in contrast to their primary Yang form), and it still includes some fa jin moves. They perform it in about eighteen minutes, giving advanced students time to focus on the unique Wu (Hao)-style internal training it offers, because this is the only Wu (Hao) form in the Dong curriculum. But in those schools it is supplemented with Dong family fast forms, which include sections that incorporate techniques and principles Dong Yingjie learned from Li Baoyu, in the old slow-swift tempo.Alex Dong Tai Chi Online, retrieved July 28, 2020 Wu (Hao)-style weapons forms include, with some variation among the lineages and individual schools, straight sword (, Pinyin: jiàn), saber/broadsword (, Pinyin: dāo), and staff (, gùn, or often , gǎn, "pole"). Although spear methods () are mentioned in a 19th-century manual by Li Yiyu, they are seldom practiced today. However the staff forms and drills for one and two persons include many spear-like movements, similar to the sticking and thrusting pole practice of the Yang and Chen styles, but without the many rotations of Chen-style spear forms .Yao Jizu 1999/2010, Chapt. 4-7 Wu (Hao)-style t'ai chi is based on principles shared with other styles, especially Yang style. For example, Yang Chengfu's "Ten Essential Points" are quite similar to the Wu (Hao)-style "Thirteen Important Points" listed above, and in fact Wu Yuxiang has been named as the source of the Yang essential points list by some writers in the Yang-style lineage.Wile 1983, p. 27 Chen-style masters also teach these essentials with a few additional points, most notably the concept of internal spiral energy paths. Yu Gongbao 2006, ("Chen style")Feng Zhiqiang and Chen Xiaowang 1996 , Chen Style Taijiquan, Morning Glory Publishers, , p. 4 Other points of comparison include the many posture names and sequences in the empty-hand forms that are shared with Yang style and a few with Chen style,Li Jianqing 2006, Chapts. 3-4 and the similarities with Yang-style weapons forms noted above, as well as similarities and differences on fundamental principles such as the Wu (Hao) style's focus on shifting and sinking vs. the Yang style's focus on shifting and twisting, though both styles contain all of those internal principles, just as all styles require the practitioner to clearly distinguish between "empty and solid" (, , xūshí) weighting during those movements. Yang, Banhou (, 1875*), 太極法說 (Explaining Taiji Principles), available free online in Chinese and English translation at Brennan Translation - retrieved July 12, 2021 (*Scholars estimate the publication date to be between 1875 and 1910, and believe the author (s) to be Yang Banhou and/or his disciples.) Yu, Gongbao ( , 2006), (China Taijiquan Dictionary), (People's Sports Publishing House), Yu, Gongbao (, 2013), (Dong Family Taiji: Dong Yingjie Taijiquan Tradition and Essentials), (Contemporary China Publishing House), Zhang, Shan ( , 2014), , The Competition Routine of Wu Style Taijiquan, Second Edition (English and Chinese edition), Shanxi Science and Technology Press,
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