Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Audi and Louis, <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> For instance, a person can talk about "playing with feeling." However, simply having feeling is not enough. The feeling must show on the outside in a concrete way. But merely copying the outside is also not enough...

You're welcome. Good luck and happy new year to you too!

Kal

Hi Roh Mih, You're right, it is risky to send this info from the Philippines. I think it will be safest to transmit via telephone. I suggest you email Nancy Lucero at nancy@yangfamilytaichi.com with your telephone number and ask if she is able to call you. You can add this format to dial the Philipp...

Hi Louis, Hi Audi, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> As for my understanding, I don’t mean to discount the role of visualization, particularly in learning and perfecting the form. But I t...

Hi DP, Thanks for your insights into the three move form. It's always struck me that there was a lot contained in that short sequence. There's nothing like a heavy pole to let you know whether you've got your body alignment correct or not. And the visual feedback at the end of the pole is useful too...

Hi All, The one I've learned from Yang Jun is just a short three movement sequence. Thrust forward (similar to the first move in the Vincent Chu video but with less scooping), pull back while shifting the weight somewhat back, then something like roll back (like the movement at the end of the video)...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> My technique involved the power coming up through my back leg through the waist up the back and out through the arm, now the arm was soft and was propell...

Hi Bob, I understand Press as a kind of squeezing where two curved lines of force meet and converge--like an asymptotic line. An asymptote never meets the straight line it converges toward--but it certainly seeks the straight in the curved! For a neat visual analogy: MYJ once mentioned that the word...

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> or you might just contine to practice and what ever comes will come when you are ready. </font> I'm basically on board with this one. I'm too undisciplined to get obsessed with anything and too stubborn to let go of it entirely until I under...

Oops, nevermind the above, found the info I was looking for on the other "Occupying the Opponent's Center" thread.

Kal

Fascinating stuff--thanks for posting the Wu Tunan commentary, Louis. Can you or anyone else tell me more about what “lingkong” (airborne) skills are or what "kongjin" is. Translation, etymology, background, anything.

Thanks much,
Kal

Hi Everyone, You know, I'm still wondering what it's like to be on the receiving end of this sort of thing. I was talking to a friend who specializes in energy healing and after he watched the video, he was concerned about the potential for "blowing out" the energy field (creating holes or...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> Can anyone explain to me the difference between sticking and adhering please? Thank you, Pamela </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hi Pamela, I think I found y...

Hi All, I found another neat video demonstrating the principles we talked about here. See the middle for a "no hands" segment that leaves the opponent saying "no thanks" to more, then at the end (about 4:07) there's a neat sequence on adhering energy. If I goof on the link, searc...

Wow, fascinating stuff. I'm intrigued by the kick right after twin peaks box ears--it looks like a variation on the lotus sweeping kick, and distinctly different from the way I've learned the Yang long form. It's interesting to see this alternate version. Also, the turn after step back to ride the t...