Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

(than what is "it"?) interesting thoughts. The it is nothing, once you understand that it¡¯s a constant search for nothingness, and give up the idea of getting it. You will have started to arrive at the point where nothing is actually something. Your training will really start at this poin...

(When resting upon the ground the force on each bit of us is not uniform. Because when a solid object is not accelerating there is an upward force that arises. Each horizontal cross section of the object experiences not only the force due to gravity on it, but also the weight of whatever portion of ...

(Do you want to be pulled and pushed into a form of your opponents choosing with no thought to your own structure, or do you adjust your form to the force being applied, yet still maintain your own structural integrity?) I have no thought of maintaining my own structure, other then not moving my fee...

(Therefore I with my limited knowledge usually can't clear see why this or that advanced practitioner of the other sub-style emphasizes something in his/her practice that differs from my attitude.) I try and stay away of looking at things as sub styles ect. A chen stylist might feel that the yang st...

Yiks so much typeing!!! Mmm, a few short thoughts. What I do is very fluid, but full of mind. So light that a leaf has now where to rest, a fly cannot land. (Feels kind of good. You're loose, you're free, nice and cozy, no resistance, no troubles, no hard work, it's nice and easy. But try being &quo...

I asked this because often I see many people practicing taiji in the park where I practice. On line this term along with others is used to describe differences in peoples taiji from their own. Usually with bad connotations. I think often times, different masters emphases different aspects, until one...

("spaghetti" type of Taiji)

what does this term mean? i have herd it used many times. Just wondering what others mean with the use of it.

thanks

david

I use free hand for my pushing practice. Some thoughts on patterns. My own background includes the tung, and cmc styles which use patterns in their practices. they are good begining level practices but one should be carfule about useing them to long. IMO http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/wink.gif ...

In my own small experience we focus on emptiness, leading a person to emptiness they tend to bounce away. It¡¯s like falling in a hole. There is absolutely no pushing its really following, leading and returning. So when I bounce some one away its really them bouncing themselves out as I follow. The ...

(Until the nineteenth century, there was no “Chen style,?“Yang style,?“Wu style,?etc. These designations are later inventions used by various students and followers to clarify their affiliations and lineages.) Thanks all, this pretty much accords with my own feelings and those of the people that I h...

( The important bit is that he had the genius, insight, talent, contacts, charisma, luck, etc. to bring this art to the capital and to teach the right people there.) thank you, I quite agree. Just wonder why some try to link the 2 styles when each are very distinct arts in themselves and should be r...

The are many stories of the yangs practice of training under table by one of the sons I belive.

Is there any historical fact for this? How high or low was the table?

(Perhaps a basketball is not the best analogy for explaining this concept, but I think you'll understand the idea behind it.) this caused me to smile, while in Beijing visiting my couches teacher I was bounced much like some one dribbling a basketball. I felt and probably looked like a basketball. h...

I have often wondered why, as according to popular history YLC first studied the chen style why he never called what he did chen style? There are many references made on the web that seems to imply his accomplishments where based on the chen teachings instead of different and unique insights that he...

(After 20 years of total Tai-Chi experience, I am beginning to understand what Sung is, and just how important it really is.) what a nice statement of ones practice. http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/wink.gif My name is Dalton Davis, I started taiji in 1980. at the time I thought it would help cle...