Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bamboo leaf: <B>(Am I on the right track trying to move my body out of the way, or should I be putting a little more strength into my ar...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by chris: If someone attacks you, and you give them a single punch to the chest, dropping them and ending the fight...have you just used Ta...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by rakyat: <B>Hi, In most fighting encounters, your opponent will punch or kick at you, often a barrage of punches and kicks. For example, ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by The Wandering Brit: <B>Kal, Chee, Thankyou very much for your posts, they help a lot. Now, in an attempt to tie this back into the rest ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by The Wandering Brit: <B> We did levitation on week 3..doesn't everyone? On a separate note - and apologies if this should be a new thread...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B>Greetings Chee Fatt, I’ve been enjoying your posts. I also just read your article in the current T’ai Chi magazine. Very...

Hi guys, nice to know that many of us are on the same track. I think Taiji secrets are no more secrets anymore, today masters are more willing to share and it will be up to us to learn them. I always wonder if those who claimed they are the only guardian of secrets are actually sales hype. Noticed m...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bamenwubu: <B>WB, Do you practice the "dynamic push hands" of that lineage? I've seen it mentioned, spoke briefly with Dimitri...

Hi everybody. Audi, you are right to say waist move hands...I think I had written wrongly that waist follows hands. What I meant was in open hand, waist is turning to lead hands too,just like cross-hand push hands. But I still have to work on open hand more before I can reach the same proficiency as...

You guys are right about the importance of solid foundation. I've practised TCC for more than 12 years and I would say my skills is better than most if not all of the people I knew (in my country) who had practised TCC, many of them have more than decades of practising time ahead of me. Why? Because...

Thanks guys. I find open-hand is much harded than crossed-hand but probably because I am new at it. Friends practising Yiquan told me one of the criteria in open hand is not to allow each hand to cross centerline when circling and waist is continuously turning left and right following the hands. Do ...

Cheng Man Cheng's student Huang Hsin Hsuen uses open-hand push hands instead of crossed-hand push hands norm in Yang style. In opened-hand, your right hand attach to opponent's left hand and vice versa, contrary with crossed-hand where your right would attach to the opponent's left. I can handle cro...

Our training in push hands is less systematic than yours. We will do circuling for 1-2 minutes to quiet down the mind and warm-up, then we proceed straight into free push hands. However we must always keep in mind three things, first is listening to the opponent's force, second is to neutralize and ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zak: <B> I feal that ting jin & tung jin are the basic skills that one should obtain from push hands. after practicing taijiquan i c...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zak: <B>Does one need push hands to learn martial apps.? </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> If you are talking about self-defence using Taiji ...