Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

This would be my own opinion. I have only learned Taichi for 2 years and I am too amazed with how diverse is Taichi. Even with the standardization of the martial arts into 5 major group, there are even variation when it is taught by different teachers. My take is to consider a few factors to decide ...

I agree with you that Kao manifests itself into other strokes as well. While learning the form, however these are the 3 areas that my teacher has emphasised on the "kao" as it is the crucial part of the strokes, others seems more as a complimentary move.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by roh mih: I just started studying the Ynag Style long form-- numbered as 108, 103 and even 88. I noticed that in many recent versions, in...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bai-Hui: <B>Hi, I've been looking for a small frame style clip/video that was taught by Yang Ban Hou. Does anyone know of a link? Also, ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by shugdenla: <B>Zhongwen and Chengfu have stated that there is no Fast Form in Yang shi taijiquan. What does exist are people who have dev...

I have just bought a book written by Wu tu Nan and he has a brief description of how he was taught the skill by Yang Shao Hou. He raised example of the grasping the sparrow's tail, there are 6 combination of movement to complete the form. At each movement, he has to stop and focus on 6 types of brea...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bamboo leaf: <B>The question was because just reading it, it seems so different from my own experiences. I don’t know how my own teacher...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by twc: <B>There are a few publication on this yongjia (so far I have seen three), but they are all in Chinese. The authors are all WTN's d...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bob Ashmore: <B>Very interesting watching Wu Tunan do form work. This looks to me to be small frame. Very controlled movements, very wel...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Simon Batten: In Louis' translation of Fu Zhong Wen's book 'Mastering Yang Style Taijiquan' the last of Yang Cheng Fu's 10 points as dic...