Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

dear qqkick, we have talked about this in another forum `push hand skills', maybe you want to take a look. Steel wrapped in silk or iron wrapped in cotton basically talked about the strength and power than hide inside the soft movements. The soft movements, relaxation 'sung' and non-resisting approa...

Thanks a lot bamboo leaf...very informative.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by chris: <B>If you want practical skill, it is important to practice "finding the bridge", i.e. something between tui shou and s...

Hi guys, anyone has any good or exciting ideas for training Tai Chi Chuan martial art applications? At present, I separate each of the movement and train in a way similar to one-step sparring as practised in other external art but of course sticked to Tai Chi principles of going-in from side, not re...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bamboo leaf: <B>Hua (Jin is a force which come from the combination of body weight (as a result of proper body structure & alignment...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by psalchemist: Ah, so it is by being sung that we cultivate chi...good point to remember...which is why one could do the form day and nigh...

Thanks Bamenwubu, a very nice and informative article. Sung should be looked upon as `rou' and not `ruan', I fully agree with that.

After reading my ealier post on `sung', I am compelled to share the other part of sung as well...hope you guys don't mind my long windness. I hv mentioned sung is a needed quality to facilitate strength but I have missed-out sung is also the needed quality to hide strength. In the latter context, su...

'Sung' is not the same with the normal terms of relax as we understand it in our day-to-day conversation. I would like to interpret it as CONSCIOUSLY letting loose of joints, ligaments and tendons. From the sound of it you would hv guessed there are plenty of work to be done here. Most people do `su...

Hi psalchemist, Bamenwubu is right, we train along the same methods too in bouncing back. In simple physic terms it goes like this, throw a ball to the ground and it will bounce back with similar force. The principle is the same but actualizing it in practice require a lot of training. You must be a...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bamenwubu: Nine Palace Steps is a moving push hands drill. It's not easy. Fun though.[/B]</font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Is it the same with &q...

Gene, thanks for sharing. My sifu Yip Seong is the inner student of Dong, Huling, who is the son of Dong, Yin Chieh the most senior student of Yang Cheng Fu. When they did push hands, Dong never allow them to touch his body as it would be similar to a strike. Even if touch, they will not be able to ...

Hi guys, nice and comforting to find they are people agreeing and using the same training methodology. Many people don't care about Tai Chi martial aspect anymore. I learned frm my sifu (who is the inner student of Dong, Fuling -son to Dong, Yin Chieh) that traditionally the Yang family and Dong tra...

Do you guys practise each of the 8 tech separately (Peng, Lu, Ji, Ann, Chai, Lieh, Zhou, Kou)? I usually practise them separately with a partner where each of us issue Jin on another using each posture repeatedly. Surprisingly many Tai Chi guys I know (some of them are instructors and teaching for m...

Thanks Gene and Crist. It is very true in the statement that push hands with good opponents will do many goods as compare to with lesser skill opponents. We tend to be lacken when dealing with a lesser skill partner, one most common one is the intensity of concentration which tends to be more lacks ...