BKF's (modified) Wu-Style Tai Chi 7 short form was the first energetic practice that had ever made me feel any buzzing or tingling or warming sensation after about 15min of doing it straight. No other qigong that I had practiced had given me a similar sensation, and I had practiced quite a lot including FPCK and SPQ.
When I took some tai chi classes in person from a student of C.C. Chen, he remarked "I can tell you've done this before," when in fact I had really only studied Bruce's stuff on tai chi. His kwa detail is superior even to Damo's IMO.
I practice his version of cloud hands sporadically throughout my day, sometimes every day, sometimes just a few days a week, sometimes I'm too busy or stressed. I still years later am learning insights, like how to stretch your muscles and fascia by creating spirals as you press out your arms. When I learned that, I experimented and found out you can create spiraling stretching movements in your lower body too as you shift weight.
I also have benefited from his taoist meditation, and taoist breathing. I was part of the meditation circle, highly recommend.
I didn't get anything from the dissolving practice, but maybe thats because I had done buddhist body scans for years.
Last, and unfortunately, I also didn't feel as much as I wanted to for Dragon and Tiger. Still I practice the 1st and sometimes 2nd movement every month or so to keep it learned since its part of the 5 keys.
I do the arm swings occassionally, but never benefited anything from them really. I did even something like 200-400 swings every day for months to mimic Ping Shui Gong, but neither felt nor noticed nothing. In classes and even my brief stint at a zen monastery, they did swings as a warm-up, likely just to have the movement pattern maintained. It doesn't seem to have a higher purpose, but who knows. Ping Shui Gong people say at 1,000 swings per day you can cure disease.
I learned his stuff only online and through his books. Sadly, when I was studying his material he hadn't released his online classes for his neigong. And I haven't tried his bagua but I really would like to.
In fact, I'm about to re-dedicate some time to practicing cloud hands and dragon and tiger. (Also combining it with Sifu Yan Lei's 8 brocades because he includes iron body bamboo hitting training (Xi Sui Jing?) that also had a very noticeable effect on me).
