Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

My last posting on this.

One can only know from what is posted.
My only intent was in trying to provide some answers based on my own experiences, not to take away from others.

Kal,

I think you have enough to consider and work on just reading from your latest postings. Good luck in your journey.

(Re: “. . .intent of movement rather then the movement itself.” I’m just struck by the incoherence of this. The “intent of movement” is the intent to MOVE, unless it is the intent to do something else. Yi is not something separate from physical movement; it is what informs and imbues movement) Kind ...

(If my opponent does not move I do not move, if my opponent moves I move first." Where in this statement do you see "I won't move at all and my opponent will go flying with the force of my Yi/Shi/Intent alone"? ) Find someone to translate some of what he is saying then decide if his w...

I would say no, the idea is not extraordinarily ordinary, even among many Chinese stylist its quite rear and not common. Many can talk about it but actually few very few can do it. http://v2.56.com/id1761120.html try this one showing and talking about the same things. (Whether beginner or high level...

http://www.chinafrominside.com/ma/taiji/weishuren1.html (Every movement and posture of the boxing routine practice should have, as the boxing classics say, "Intent in first place" (/Yi Zai Xian/), Intention should guide the form from the beginning to the end, one should not practice "...

http://www.searchcentertaichi.com/search.html http://www.imperialtaichi.com/ http://www.taijiquandao.com/03paginasingles/05masters/05weishuren.htm a couple of sites that hopefully will give some an insight into the practice. Each site comes at it from a slightly different perspective. (Wei Shuren y...

Fist in mind, really understand and practice this. Before you move, it occurs in your mind. The training of taiji is one of directly training the shen, yi, and qi. Training to understand and feel the intent of movement before the movement happens. First in your own body then after a while in another...

(One of my practice partners recently learned a technique from a friend of his who studies another style. I can't counter it and I'm wondering if anyone can provide any suggestions, advice, and more information.) Don’t worry about countering it would be my first advice. What it sounds like you have ...

(listening is simply a subjective, experiential way of naming "follow the other's movement". From this perspective, Taichi ting/listening has nothing to do with sensing/perceiving yet, nevertheless, this distinction of ting/listen is, by coincidence, intricately correlated with the listeni...

(So, what’s going on with this sound/drum metaphor when used to explain the concept “yi,?or when used in the Taijiquan Jing to evoke the psychophysical feeling of arousal when one prepares to do taijiquan? Does this have any bearing on the sound-based concept of tingjin? Does it “resonate.?P>Take ca...

Re: “Iit means touch the ground through your opponent.?
What means that?

It means that you can extend your yi into the other and actually feel the ground with it. at this point their balance is really gone. With a change in your focus point their balance is moved and they will tend to follow it.

(Well, that defies physics. For a human being to stand and suspend her arm before her requires strength, and I’m bewildered at what the opposite of that would be. (But I've heard that if the speed of light is fast, the speed of dark must be really fast.) Kind of the point, physics can not describe m...

(Touch the ground that raises the question of what the direct object is in this case. Are you touching the opponent strength? If so, are you touching the opponent’s strength only to listen to his jin? I’m not sure that makes sense. So, it may be that the li in zhuoli is a figurative sense similar to...

You missed the point but that¡¦s okay. Not to much more to say on this.

(Hence, touch/sensitivity of listening is very necessary...yes, I see that point. Yes, I would agree.) I think some of this is very confused. I see this a lot when pushing with other people it¡¦s a common mistake based on incorrect or maybe incomplete ideas. The idea if listening or tingjin is actua...