Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

I heard that Douglas Wiles who translated and made the book- Yang Family Secret transmissions omitted the Yang family lineage in his book. does anyone have a copy? Also Barbara Davis omitted the Yang family long fist form from Chen Weimings book Taiji Sword. he was supposed to have that form in the ...

At the time Yang Lu Chan was fighting what was he calling his martial art? Soft boxing? Taijiquan? Cotton fist? How did they do the fighting process in the early times? Lei Tai platform? Open challenges? at schools? tournaments? does Yang Lu Chan have a known fight record? Someone once wrote Yang Lu...

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A most natural example of tai chi play.

I like the fact that you can experiment with the form. For example - you can practice standing for some time and then do first opening movement very slowly like 10 minutes of raising hands. Or In some taiji systems- Hold and Mold the postures. Do a 5 minute brush knee standing or any other posture y...

How much post standing is offically recongnized by Yang Family as an important part of practice? Tai Chi magazine Vol. 20 Number 3 (June 1996). Has an article about Cai Song Fang who practices WU JI standing that is performed before the Tai chi Yang set. The article says that Yang chen Fu was told b...

Its very important to learn the 'Template" so to speak and then internalize it as your own. You have to listen to your body and make fine internal adjustments to ease where you might feel tight, awkward, or tense. Not everybody is the same but the standard is important- form is function and fun...

Li zheng who promotes 'Imperial Yang taijiquan"

saw this on another message board-
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Bummer- I thought it was the first time this information was published in USA. So Dr. Yang and Douglas Wiles already knew about this chinese text a long time ago. I thought it was something new that had never been heard of before. I looked at the book 'Yang Family Secret Transmissions' and verified ...

its in most major bookstores like barnes and Noble, Borders.. Normally I would scan it for everyone but there could be copyrights.

I have seen the handwritten by JYK at Xianhao home, the article has the chinese typed out.

[This message has been edited by mls_72 (edited 06-04-2005).]

Taijiquan's Comprehensive Rhymed Formula is a translation by my former instructor Dr. Xianhao Cheng whom I grew up with in Norfolk/Virginia Beach (now in Philadelphia) has an article out in July/aug issue of Kung fu magazine. It is a translation of a rare poem from Yang chen Fu that gives some guida...

Being someone whose only martial art was taijiquan I understood the art as something that was to keep opponet off of us and to at least neutralize, fend off, or control our adversarywithout getting locked in a hold or thrwn to ground.. however taiji has some combat throws and its a good idea to feel...

I am curious to know how many of you with schools have thick mats to practice your taijiquan applications that involve throwing people to the ground. One of my partners and I did some application research with mats (we practice falling first)and came up with at least a dozen major throws. brush knee...

Thanks for replies. I am not exactly sure yet in my recent queries about Hong fist on "vast" or "Red Fist" so I havent figured it out whcih one Yang Lu chan may have practiced. Though i understand that Yang Taijiquan is evolved from External and Internal evolution from many maste...

So I found out on this and other boards that The style Yang Lu Shan may previously have studied Hongquan- Red fist was A Chang chuan (Shaolin Long Fist) style that had a small frame, long frame and fast frame as well with many of the postures resembling something like Taijiquan. Comments, Opinions? ...