Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Kal: Everybody has a certain amount of internal strength. It's not so much a question of enough internal strength. Yuri: Partly agree, but there is anoth...

Hi Khemkhang, <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> But we also have to hold the structure of our body. How do we do that without using any force? </font> Hold the structure of the body, but relax inside the structure. Eventually, the stiff strength and tension inside will dissol...

Ah, thanks Audi, that sounds more familiar now!

Sometimes my imagination gets away from me...

Kal

Hi César, My sword form feels rusty and it’s been awhile since I attended a sword form seminar, but I’ll take a stab (sadly, pun intended) at answering your questions. I may be completely wrong, so I too would appreciate corrections and comments from others. For Pushing the Canoe with the Current: A...

But no English subtitles...woe is me!

Thanks though, looks like it'd be fun to watch even w/out subtitles.

Kal

Thank you CheeFatt and Audi for translating!

Hi Audi, Thanks for the image of "limits." I've been working with it for a few weeks now (was travelling, no chance to respond) and it's created a very different sensation for my pung jin. I'd been thinking about asymptotes earlier, for press energy, so I shifted that idea to your idea of ...

Understood, thanks. Now I'm revisiting the cotton soled shoe idea. I understand there are all sorts of disadvantages: slippery, heels slide out, no arch support, not a street shoe...but after watching the video at the link recently posted in the push hands forum ("Huang short jin") I wonde...

OK, Jerry, You've convinced me to try another pair of Converse shoes. The model you showed looked like the soles would be better at keeping out the rain, so I'm going to try ones that looks similar, but a little more colorful: http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/7316419/c/40588.html Vans: "For some re...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> I think that your ideas about vectors, contact points, etc. address the questions of how to make the expression of the energies effective, rather than wh...

No worries, Bob, I much prefer the slang of my childhood and it makes me feel so...snooty grandma-ish to try to use the "One could..." convention. I like to say "you" when I mean "one" and I like to say "they" when I mean "she he or it." Yet my mothe...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> I am a common taichi lover ,not a skilled one.I have a lot of things to learn.Why i want to write in this form, the main objective is that any skilled on...

Hi Gogo, Bob said: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> "As in form practice you first begin by copying the movements of your teacher, at this time you have no real concept of what you'...

Hi DP and everyone, I've been delving quite a bit into math stuff in my last few posts and this one too. I'm not assuming that people don't know these things already--but I'm not assuming that they do either, so I've tried to provide illustrations and examples wherever possible. I'm no great shakes ...

Hi DP,

I just revised/refined my idea of Push and edited my last post to reflect this. What do you think? I hope to respond to your latest post this afternoon.

Kal