Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

MY teacher tells us that as long is the posture is correct. How high the kick is is not important.

Better to have correct form and waist high or lower kick then a high kick and bad form.

if the form is correct you cannot be lose points, but if the form is wrong you can lose points.

My first Teacher Studied with Da Liu in New York.

He Teaches Da Lui Short form Here in Fredericksburg Va. He also has a video of Da Liu Teaching his version of the short form. you can contact him at the address below.

http://www.arttechnology.com/TaiChi/TaiChiHome.htm

My first Teacher did not teach any type of steping drills and he still does not. My current coach we do lots of walking forward and backwards, not a lot of sideways. Lots of joint opening before doing the long form. When I was in Xiamen this summer. My sister in law step me up with 3 chen lessons at...

Howdy

I saw your fight!

I even see myself in the video..LOL! There were a lot of good Lei Tai matches.

I wish my push hands match had gone as will as your Lei Tai. Oh well! back to the drawing board and more practice.

Thanks for the advice, I'll start giving it a try and also talk to my Tai Chi coach

I'm seem to be stuck in my practice. There are 2 areas that I am unable to fix/understand. 1 Speed - My form is way to fast even when i think I'm going slow I am still going way to fast. I do not know how to slow down any more. 2 Softness - I just to not think I understand how to relax the waist and...

Any one going to attend this?

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Simon Batten: Thanks, Danny for this exhaustive research which I think presents the position most fairly. I'm sure I read somewhere that...