Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Greetings Marc,

I visited your site sometimes in the past. I was very fascinated by Yang Zhenduo's clip that you had. Is it possible to make it accessible for a while again?

Thank you

Yuri

[This message has been edited by Yury Snisarenko (edited 09-09-2004).]

Greetings Audi, Thank you for the link. The timbre of voices, the music … it was very nice to listen seating home in rainy night. I understand and accept his main concept against stupid resistance. It leads to nothing, to wasting of time in Taiji quan. In my practice and daily life I figured out tha...

Greetings Psalchemist Article what I've read was placed somewhere in Chinese internet. Probably I could find it for everyone's observation but I am going to move out of my city just now for couple of weeks and will be without access to internet. Vacation…. nature… and minimum civilization…. :-)))) K...

Greetings Psalchemist, Thank you for the excerpt from YZD's article. His words are always very interesting. When I first time met the notions of chan si jin and central qi in Chen Xin's works they became the subject of my interest and long time investigation. As far as I know the notion of central q...

Wushuer, it seems that I haven't got enough experience to see that hidden things sometimes. Anyway thank you for sincere post. I accept your point of view about today's taiji schools. In Russia it's the same. One more thing that in U.S.A. and Russia looks alike. ))

Good luck in your practice

Wushuer, I agree with you that "all these discussions are valid and applicable and everyone will have to decide on their own which way is best in the long run". I by myself passed through numerous influences from different sub-styles on my first style (I've been practicing 37 form of Yang ...

Greetings Audi, All Audi, your analyzing is very worth to be sharing. Speaking metaphorically Preparation/Commencement Posture is the door to taolu that represents/establishes style features. If we only could open it…You mentioned silk reeling energy/jin but do Yangs mention it? Sorry for this a lit...

Greetings Psalchemist, It's known that traditional Yang style accents the idea of experiencing jin as needle in cotton or steel wrapped in cotton. I've read YZD's article where he describes features of traditional Yang style and in comparison and contrary to other Yang based (sport or only health or...

Greetings Gu Rou Chen, Jamie Your interesting posts led me to thought that if we characterize jin manifestation in traditional Yang style as "needle in cotton" then probably deferens in concavity and roundness of the palms depends on slightly different proportions of "needle" and...

Greetings Psalchemist In my understanding Ti Shou Shang Shi means that this movement implies lifting of the hands (Ti Shou) but not merely as person would do in ordinary situation. This kind of lifting also implies active internal movement (Shi) upward (Shang) that may be used for uprooting or for t...

Greetings Kalamondin, DavidJ David, thank you for providing that link. I've read the discussion with great interest and have supplemented my knowledge of taiji language and terms a lot. Kalamondin, I don't pretend to be absolutely precise in description of these terms. It's only my personal understa...

Louis, IMO your citations and explanation shows the optimal and most profound way to find personal understanding and comfort feeling in studying of teacher's form. The notion of Subject and Object in conformity with Taijiquan theory would be very interesting to discuss. I always wondered is it appro...

Little addition – I should better say "common basic pattern of the palm which has certain name". This would help student to move through all position changes. That’s my mane idea about usefulness of such term as Lotus Leaf Palm.

Greetings Louis Actually I meant Lotus Leaf Palm too. Thank you for correction. I'll try to find mentioned by you excerptions from YZD book – it should be very interesting. I don't know that YCF used that term as well but it very suits to my conception about palm methods in general. Because if we ha...

Greetings Psalchemist, Laogong (literally Labor's Palace) is a cavity on Pericardium channel in the center of the palm. I think it's easier to direct qi to that place when fingers are slightly bent than when they completely (visibly) stretched. Many taiji masters pay special attention to that place ...