Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Audi, I’ve been reading over some of the older forums and I wanted to respond to a couple points in your post of 6-3-01 (sorry, it’s been a couple weeks and I don’t remember the forum name anymore—but it seems relevant to what we’ve been talking about). You wrote: <font face="Verdana, Arial&...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wushuer: <B>I don't see that this way at all. In fact, I'd say to move your hips in a much, much smaller circle to deflect the incoming ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Wushuer: <B> My own personal theory is that it helps, immensly, in getting your body weight out of that front, non-weighted, leg and all...

Hi Audi, Thanks for your patience with my long absence and the length of this post! You said: <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> I could well be wrong, but I think I understand “following” somewhat differently. For me, it is not necessarily about being passive and not attackin...

Hi Jeff, I found a page that has some short synopses of some older articles. I don't know if you'll find it helpful, but here it is: http://www.taichismart.com/resourcelib.html Here's another link. Abstracts and a bibliograpy. Again, nothing more recent than 1999. There's probably some overlap: http...

Hi David J, Thanks much for the link. Fascinating stuff. The more I study, the more tai chi seems different from external schools of martial arts. There was a bit in one of the translations of following (or was it sticking) that talked about "devotion" and giving up the self to follow the ...

Well, Wushuer, I'm glad you're still alive and kicking. Thanks for sharing your story.

Kal

Hi Wushuer, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> I got quite twisted up from that, hadn't realized until just this past week how much tension my body was still holding from that, and it was yea...

Hi Wushuer, Glad you liked my prayer drum image. I also learned a warm-up that looks even more like a prayer drum: feet shoulder width apart and using the waist, swing the (very relaxed) arms in great arcs that wrap around the body sideways, striking the kidney region in back (lightly, lightly!) wit...

Hi,

Can anyone explain to me the difference between sticking and adhering energies?

I'm still confused about this.

Thanks!
Kal

Great original post YCF04! That really sums it up! Sort of extrapolating from the idea of "the more you know, the less you know:" one of my training techniques involves always trying to push beyond the cusp of what I do know into what I don't know. I try to recognize when I'm feeling comfo...

Hi Audi,

It's summer vacation time and I will have only occasional internet access. I look forward to reading your post (have printed it but must dash). You may not hear from me until August...but then again, you never know.

Have a great month!

Kalamondin

Hi Audi, Here’s the second half of my response. You said: Quote: Audi: <<What I would question, however, is why the raw exercise would inherently be useful without some further connection to some other Taiji method or principle. Your brief statement describes an exercise or a practice tool, but a to...

Hi Audi, Here's the first portion of my response--I wanted to send it off before the weekend hits. Quote: A: <<If one focuses on a view of Qi as a subtle emanation or unexplained phenomenon outside of modern science, one can have difficulty evaluating these immediate uses. One can “miss the near by ...

I don’t recommend starting weapons training until at least one year into your tai chi training. Personally, I learned the form first and practiced it for 5 years before switching to a school that also taught weapons. In comparison with my fellow students, most of whom had just finished learning the ...