Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Audi- I found the term in Chinese in regards to the discussion on exchanging energy and striking in 'da shou' and 'tui shou' from the other thread. I do not have Chinese Character however. "Gui Dai Da" having "defense including an attack" or yang within yin. here is the page in t...

When you do form, do you therefore imagine three unanswered strikes in a row? It is not a good idea to imagine 3 unanswered strikes. That would be like yang , yang and more Yang without the Yin. when I spoke of exchange, I mention anticipation of a counter attack. If the look at Taiji or yin/yang.....

In the format they agreed upon, it looked like a combination of K-1 and Sanda/sanshou rules without elbow striking and muay thai clinched knees. so yes, double leg take downs were permitted. gloves were 14 oz. gloves.

Audi, The section 'turn around and strike' is key in the "Da shou" techniques in the video. I was taught that the first fist strikes the head, the second strike which is a palm hits the chest, and third fist strikes lower ribs. The vertical circle is key for the reason it is the strongest ...

Ok just watched them. The rules looked like no elbows or knees. I saw some of the chinese fighters getting saved by ref a few times. I thought i saw some bad decisions. The Chinese throws probably scored high. I saw some good Muay Thai throws. props to those Chen Taiji guys not scared to get in ther...

i will make it public for a few days. i did not see your email message.

I have a dog now for a year. I think I have really calmed down more blood pressure wise cause of it. I get up early walk more often now cause of dog, get outside in nature, and laugh more. I will need to add a snippet about walking dog to this blog post I wrote. http://fighters-journey.blogspot.com/...

Something interesting I recently noticed...I was getting acupuncture and I asked the doctor if certain ailments require longer or shorter acupuncture times. His response was that there was an ancient text that describes the qi circulates to all the points in the body in one cycle anywhere from 50-60...

wikipedia has:

he was among the first teachers to offer T'ai chi ch'uan instruction to the general public at the Beijing Physical Culture Research Institute from 1914 until 1928.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Chengfu

I was at a Asian festival and a Cheng Man Ching player was telling folks that yang chen fu taught at Imperial palace in Beijing? is this true? I thought only Yang Lu chan did that and Yang chen fu taught at a Beijing sports society.

I have been saying it for well over a decade, and now I have some video to share. I not sure where CMC came up with his style of Tui Shou, but i have argued with CMC people that the systems are NOT the same. neither is really better, it is what you as an individual put into your training. With Youtu...

Do less of the repetitive moves:
instead of 3 part horse mane, do one.
instead of 3 brush knee, do one.
instead of 4 wave hands like clouds do 2.

go figure.

Aidren, Well, I was going off on what my sifu at the time was saying 20 years ago, but I found this article which has a better description of Taijiquan postures have 4 key attributes: “begin”, “develop”, “express”, and “finish”, regardless of style. From website: http://brennantranslation.wordpress....

I made this a while back to talk about the variations of Yang Taijiquan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CJ1eKxx_04

Hello, video is private now. I had it public for a few days, but out of respect for Coach it is only available by request. if you have a youtube or Google+ account, you can login and reach me there on my youtube and I can add you to viewer list.