Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

In my experience with teachers from Shanghai and Hangzhou where Yang Chen Fu had disciples, they still do warm up and calisthenic sets to this day that I have not seen publicly from Yang Family members. Some of these teachers who are from the lineage of Yang Chen Fu's disciples teach one or more of ...

Thanks for the reply Audi. here is a video performing part of the first section about as low as I comfortably can without deviating from the principles and separating the weight. By the end I was most definitely warm and able to deal with the cold temperature. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pVkKb7...

As the weather begins to more and more toward cold fall/winter mornings, I am inclined to find better ways to staying warm. Regular form practice is not enough even though one way does seem to help generate a lot of heat: low stance Taiji Gong Bu (Bow stance). As a general rule I do not allow my kne...

Hi Matt, Thanks for your response. Well I would love to think this is a example of taiji san shou, or a Taiji guy going to show some fighting skills, but every Taiji person will say " it is not taiji" :roll: How would you say that the fight best exemplified Tai Chi principles, or how woul...

Well I would love to think this is a example of taiji san shou, or a Taiji guy going to show some fighting skills, but every Taiji person will say " it is not taiji" :roll: Scoring is done the following way- punches and kicks that hit= 1 point clean throw with not falling= 2 points control...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ_thMe168M

Had a fight last weekend, Matt (Blue fighter). I lost but that is ok I learned a lot and had fun. No regrets, Competed against a guy from Chang Tung Sheng's side of Shuai Chiao and Taiji! Robert (yellow fighter)

Being a CMC person from the start....the only thing i have to say is... I asked Fu Zhong Wen about Cheng Man Ching and he laughed. His translator (his grandson) said the Fu had studied with Yang Chen fu since the age of 9 and followed YCF almost everywhere to help teach. He said CMC was only around ...

Yang's are mos def up in there

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Some Feed back from some other people: As some call it, Yang 24 (Beijing 24 or just plain old 24 form) does not come directly from the Yang family it comes from Li Tianji And please correct me if I am wrong but Li Tianji trained with Li Yulin, Sun Lutang and Li Jinglin and he learned Taiji from Li J...

Thanks Bob, well put and I agree with that. I still feel 24 form and the way it is taught can be a good start for someone who wants to go deep into Mastery of the Traditional. The Chinese teacher I had used it as a stepping stone for teaching the Long form. If a student was willing to complete the 2...

Louis, Thanks for the reply. I am glad you had the good fortune to have a competent teacher starting as early as 1974. A teacher of that caliber is rare indeed. Was it a Chinese Master? Long form, Short form? My observation is based on teachers who have not had the good fortune to have trained with ...

Basics: -Warm up consisted of joint opening and loosening exercises from head to toe. This included neck, shoulders, elbow, wrist, waist, spine, hips, knees, ankles. -Various athletic sports style stretches for legs, back, hip, waist, ect. -traditional stances. -Stepping drills- walking forward, ba...

In my small 20 years of Taijiquan practice and recent observations with frustrated new students of Taijiquan (TJQ), I am seeing a breakdown of good fundamentals not taught by many veteran and expert teachers of Yang Taijiquan and its other variants. This has mostly been students of more Traditional ...

Here are my notes of the Chen Zhen Lei warm-ups from a different seminar, but he always does these. Hope they make sense to you. I guess I should youtube them. Chen exercises: 1. wrist circles hands clasped 2. arm circles both directions 3. body wave/ chi flow circles hands to dan tien 4. hands at s...

thought is was cool how my instructor Jeff was teaching Muay thai and boxing and without knowing was teaching some of the Tai chi classics: Had a good sparring class last night where the instructor said- “Fighting is dictated by universal principles”…we went over two principles that scream 2 taijiqu...