Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Sorry if I gave a bad impression and didn't express myself clearly. I find that where ever I go, people are generally open and welcoming, interested in sharing their experiences and cultures and learning about mine. I meant to make a distinction between people and governments (all people, all govern...

Hi Audi, It sure is fascinating to think of all the circles that go into every part of the form. Lately I’ve been thinking about spirals: how minute circles made with the waist generate larger spirals made with the arms, and everything is spiraling and circling at the same time. Trippy. Sometimes my...

Hi Jeff, Bamenwubu, Yuri, Stephen, Thanks for starting a new topic. Jeff said: “Hopefully, Taijiquan won’t get left out. I have a sense of urgency in that currently there seems to be adequate technology for documenting many of the phenomena demonstrated by accomplished masters, but after this genera...

Hi Jeff, I was thinking about your discussion of spindle cells and there's a book you might be interested in that talks about bioelectricity and the body with some specific references to qi. Parts of it, particularly the parts about pressure-generated piezo-electric energy through semi-conducting pa...

DP! We are on the same wavelength http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/ubb/smile.gif There actually have been many scientific studies in recent years about qi, bioelectricity, electo-magnetism, geo-magnetism, and biophysics in relation to the human body. The stuff you were talking about resonated with a ...

Erm, sorry, you lost me on this one. I have a hard time translating descriptions of rhythm in to rhythm--you gave a very detailed description, but rhythm is something I don't experience particularly consciously. It's more visceral to me. I can tell when the rhythm of push hands is right and I can us...

Hi Audi, Yuri, DP, David It’s really funny: I wrote the following response to Audi’s post yesterday, before seeing DP’s basketball explanation. I was thinking about it myself and came to the exact same conclusions, even going so far as to research basic bouncing physics on some websites (I listed on...

Hi Andrew, You’re getting a lot of good advice from people, but some of it can be hard to incorporate if you are pushing with people who always push fast and hard. You may have to train your non-push hands partners to go more slowly and not as hard. When you train very, very, very slowly your body w...

Hi Andrew, If you don’t mind a little advice from someone who’s had a similar experience: It’s true that soft can beat hard, as we train in tai chi, but it’s also true that hard can beat soft. One of the most frustrating aspects of push hands training is that it takes much longer to be soft enough t...

Hi Audi and others, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"><B> If you can concentrate on circulating the opponent’s energy and not having it stick within your body, you can always return it to you...

Hi Yuri, Yikes! I wondered if it was a kind of accidental fa jing. I say accidental b/c I’m not very experienced with emitting energy. When I tried in the past there was too much tension in my body to do it without getting a headache, so I stopped trying to do fa jing in the interest of not hurting ...

I just discovered how to “bounce” my opponent away from me—but I don’t really understand yet the precise mechanics of what I’m doing and I’m wondering if you all could share your experiences with this or point me to an article or text on the energies (jin/s) involved. This is what I did: I waited fo...

Hi Psalchemist, <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Thanks for re~explaining...I'm not sure I grasped it's full meaning the first time...Ummm...So these gadgets, setups, contraptions are already means for transcribing bodily feedback, movement into sound, directly? </font> No, ...

Hi Psal, I think we already have the technology to do this in medicine, digital music, digital film production, etc. But it's a matter of finding someone with the musical, technical, and tai chi expertise, money, time, etc. or the will to call such experts together. DP, thanks for your vote of confi...

When I do this transfer from L to R (traditional Yang style 55), I place my R palm on the handle with a standing palm, tiger's mouth open, with my thumb as close to the hand-guard as possible. Then, during the transfer, the thumb acts as a kind of pivot point. I think I use the outer edge of my R pa...