Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi DP, I very much liked your explanation of why pung energy tends to buoy up the opponent on account of force applied towards the top portion of a sphere. I have experienced pung energy applied on me in a downwards direction and was somewhat at a loss until I read your explanation. This exercise in...

Hi Psal, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Is there no effective method of feinting in Tai~Chi without sacrificing his or her own stable center?... Could one deliver energy to the opponen...

Hi Bob, Sounds like your teacher gave you some excellent advice that was very useful for you and your push hands partner at the time. However, I concur with Horacio. I too have been taught that push hands is more about learning about your opponent and the form is for learning about yourself. That sa...

Hi Cheefatt, Wow! Lots of good things to think about in your post. I will try shrinking my pung jin sphere next time I do push hands to hold and absorb a push in a static posture. I want to try both contained within the posture and slightly smaller than the posture, then try expanding it suddenly be...

Hi Audi and others, On Pung jin: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> I still see the energy as “lifting” because this action tends to float or buoy up the partner’s push…. I am not a fan of...

Hi Bob, You're welcome! I'm glad my analogies worked for you...not sure they were mine though. Maybe one. My mind is definitely not a steel trap! It's more like a mountain lake with different streams feeding it--then everything mixes together and I can't tell any longer where things originated. Happ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Hi Kal, expanding peng jin sphere to me is like when a stone is throw into a pond, circular water waves will be created and expanding outwards from the c...

Hi Bob, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B>One complete, threaded, continuous movement from beginning to end with no places to stop, no beginnings and no endings. </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOT...

Hi Everyone, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> On the other hand, Yang Zhenduo and Yang Jun emphasize, perhaps even more than other similar teachers, that each movement should have a defi...

Hi Cheefatt, Can you please explain more about "expanding [your] pung jin sphere?" I would like to hear more about this. Can you describe more about it? I have begun some explorations that may be similar and would like to learn more. Thank you! Kal PS, Bob, I'll write a bit about my unders...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by rakyat: Thanks for the replies. It has help clear up the misconception I had earlier that not doing the form as passed down would interf...

Hi Audi and Bob, Bob, Thanks for your comments. I liked what that student said about a "void that needs to be filled, it almost seems to pull me the right way" because I sense that too—the trick is to align one’s intention with the void or the void shows up in entirely the wrong place and ...

Hi Matt, I don't have an official answer for you and I don't know what it might be, but I can tell you what I’ve seen in Master Yang Jun’s school. I was in the first class he taught in Seattle and post standing was not introduced at that time. However, I attended a recent beginner’s class lecture by...

Hi Audi, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> I would say that there is a slight feeling of arm rotation in Ward Off Right and Left. In both cases, the palm faces slightly upward in a way th...

Hi Rakyat, I second Bamenwubu’s suggestion that you check with your teacher to make sure you have the proper alignment in the movement (back foot open 45 degrees to the back corner for the bulk of the movement, right knee in line with the right toe and not falling inward, left foot straight ahead an...