Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi yslim, I really can't respond without talking about David in the 3rd person, as if he isn't here. At any rate, whatever I think someone "means" is based on what he writes. I don't try to guess. Well, that's not true. Usually, I try to take what's written in the best light possible. Howe...

Hi David, "accepting one and rejecting the other based on ones own senses and intellect. All reality takes place in the mind, it’s the sharing of this that determines what is real or not." If it's real for you, then it is real. But, you cannot, by extension, say that it is real for anyone ...

Hi Stephen, you wrote: "Have you run up the stairs and expected an extra step, or gone to sit and the chair has gone, or caught your foot on a kerb and started to go over. There can be a terrible jarring feeling as the mind comes out of synch with the body. At that moment until your mind and bo...

Hi,

I only meant to give a compliment, not to make or score a point. If his previous answer was satisfactory to you, then you have an advantage over me.

regards,
Steve James

Hi David, "I found your question really quite hard to answer," If you were speaking to me, thank you, not for the answer you did give, but for the answer that you didn't give. Fwiw, when you find an answer, I'll definitely pay attention. But, I probably won't readily accept some of the gli...

Hi bambooleaf, but you're simply claiming that all this has been shown already by others. Why not simply state your answer to the question instead of circumlocuting. I.e., "what" do you --not a past master-- think, believe, say that "it" is. We've agreed that "it" exist...

Hi, it's true that these demonstrations might be ascribed to "suggestion", the "desire to please" and "mass hypnosis," but that is usually considered demeaning or inaccurate. We generally agree that what happens in the video actually happens. The only question, imo, is ...

ignore please

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Hi bamboo leaf, sorry, it was my error. You were responding to shugdenla, who wrote: "(The sadness is that it works only if you believe!)" To which, you responded: "you have felt this or experienced it? If not how can your statement be true?" My point was that his statement could...

Hi bamboo leaf, you wrote: "I don’t know what the point of faking some thing would be," The point of faking is to fake. But, I don't necessarily think that these are "faked" in the sense of "pretending." "... all demos are kind of set up to demo a certain point or ...

What is not possible? That can't possibly be a serious question. How can I answer that negative? How can anyone? But, as DP suggested, it is "possible" that some of the demonstrations that we've seen have been faked. Or, are you saying that that would not be possible? Well, I don't have th...

"The problem with viewing demonstrations such as shown in these video clips is that anyone wishing to fake it with their friends could reproduce something similar looking." That's exactly right. There's no "falsifiability." All such demonstrations are deemed either f/actual or fr...

Hi Audi, if I'm not mistaken, one of the earliest descriptions of the first movement of the GBT was "Ward Off Slantingly Upward." I was also talking with a friend recently and we noted that, though "An" is generally translated as "push", that is actually the second part...

Hi shugdenla, I agree with you on all counts. "Diagonal flying" is not "straight." When the same movements are done straight, it's no longer Diagonal Flying. Of course, as you say, there are "themes". Actually, maybe it would be possible to say that there are 13 "t...

Hi Bob, I like lists, too. I think it can be helpful to categorize. Anyway, you wrote: "I am still working on finding the Press in Diagonal Flying. I will do some work on it without my arms and see if that gets me anywhere." Fwiw, I would say that "Press" is not inherent in "...