Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

What a great resource! Thank you for sharing. This is an excerpt from the heading Taiji Boxing Postures : LEFT & RIGHT BRUSH KNEE IN A CROSSED STANCE 手揮琵琶 PLAY THE LUTE 進步搬攔錘 ADVANCE, PARRY, BLOCK, PUNCH In this list and in the explanation of the postures there is no Brush Knee before Advance, P...

Hello Audi, Hope All is well. I saw a 1937 Wu style video with someone playing with a large ball that reminded me of your quote: At one point, I was so desperate for practice that I used an exercise ball to push with against a wall. My strategy evolved into training up partners I could push with, si...

Hey Audi, thanks for responding to my ambiguous open-ended question. I don’t have a direct question but I’d be happy to hear anything more you have to say on this point. Now that is definitely a friendly challenge. :D Let's see if I am up to it. I may have said this to you before, but one of my Engl...

we talk about the Dantian as a reservoir or the main channel in a river system. If that main reservoir is full, all the side channels (i.e., the meridian system) will be full. That is why we do not talk much about the path the Qi takes back out of the Dantian. It will be where you need it naturally...

Thank you BBTrip for the links. Do you have a favorite Tai Chi video you’d like to suggest? If so, could you share? Fortunately, I get to play push hands with the ocean every day: peng , lu , ji , and an - they're all there in surfing! I like that! I don’t surf but have always admired people who do...

Thank you so much for bringing these YouTube videos to my attention. Thank you. The real person to thank is Yang Jun. I have a feeling Yang Jun’s videos are going to make Yang style even more popular. Hey, If you haven’t already seen his push hand demo here’s the link to part 1 & 2. Yang Family...

Found a great video of some of the sharpest pictures of Yang Chengfu on the internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVHwDNo2LB8 In addition, for those of you who may not know, there are some great videos on this site of Yang Jun explaining the fine details of Yang Barehand Form. Now you can find th...

The reason it does not look like traditional Yang is that Chen Wei-Ming first studied Xingyi and bagua in Beijing under Sun Lutang, and later studied Yang Taijiquan with Yang Chengfu and I believe his style of Yang Taijiquan is more than a little bit different than what was taught to him by Yang Ch...

Thank you guys for posting the subject, and the translations, Yum.

As practitioner who does not speak or read Chinese and does his best to apply the techniques you speak of, this is simply gold.

First the mind, then the body.

Hi Audi, This is one of the few competition videos I have seen where I can clearly identify the technique the winner uses. I glad you liked it. I agree with you 100% about being able to clearly identify the use of the winners technique. I search and search and rarely find people who actually use Tai...

Hello Audi, Always nice to hear from you and read your posts. Just an FYI regarding the your comment about the Yang Zhenji Tai Chi Dao video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj0GS_Vb-88 This is basically the form that we do; although it is interesting to see the small differences. I’ve seen and have b...

Hey Louis,
I'm curious if you gotten your hands on the Red Book yet.

Hey Audi, Once again, thanks for the push hands exercise suggestions. I find them useful especially the use of the exercise ball. It’s very kind of you to share. I found a Push Hand video you may be interested in. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4UbKAbK4EA Some might want to watch it with the sound ...

Hey Audi, How's it going? I think your eyes are better than mine, because I cannot tell the difference :) . Both look very fluid to me. Your eyes are good; they are both pretty fluid. It was a poor comment on my part. I never should have said it. Here’s a video many people may have seen. It’s Yang T...

Hello Audi, Once again great to hear from you. Wow, that is an extraordinary performance. I especially like the sweep. I have to say, however, that I am glad that is not the form I am supposed to be practicing every day. My legs hurt just looking at the video clip. There are videos of others that si...