Based on the booklet, he developed the twelve basic movements and, after decades of practice, started his first class in 1976.
九份常年下雨，他的健康情況不佳。有回翻箱子找到師父贈與的丹功秘訣，靈機一動，決心試試。張志通根據丹冊又改良設計出較簡單易學的十二式，經過卅年苦練之後，頗有心得；遂於民國六十五年在永和頂溪國小開班傳授。