Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hello M, <An old version is " *hold* tiger, return to the mountain". Embrace is what was tried in the zoo. leroy> Hey Leroy, you know me I believe that there is room for everybody I leave the literary stuff to you good folks. got my plate full with TheEnglish! http://www.yangfamilytaichi.c...

hi all,
embrace tiger return to the mountain

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<When you are good at pushing hands, you are no longer a pushover. You have no reason to be in fear of other people, and all the myriads of tricks they use to intimidate each other fall away. You stand on your own feet. People who aren't good at pushing hands are the ones who tend to dismiss it.> so...

hello one and all. I have not been here in years .. so, all of u should welcome me back! )) <Does anybody practice the Taichi barehand form with weights around the wrist, let us say, about 0.5kg or 1kg or more? I mean, using weights like ankle weights, but around the wrist; I don't know the name in ...

I'm relatively new in Tai Chi, with barely two years of experience. I do tai chi more for health rather than-- in fact, never for-- its martial applications. Now, I heard about this push hands. Is it really necessary or a requirement that I should learn and do this to be able to really learn and mas...

<My actual question is: would the practice of the sequence with weights be physically bad for ones health and specifically for the muscles and bones?
Thanks,
Filipe>

no!
just a different kind of a work out. that's all

M.

hello one and all. I have not been here in years .. so, all of u should welcome me back! http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/redface.gif )) <Does anybody practice the Taichi barehand form with weights around the wrist, let us say, about 0.5kg or 1kg or more? I mean, using weights like ankle weights,...