Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

In Yang style, I have rarely seen fajing in the Chen sense of expression and understanding. The few occasions have been in teachers from Hong Kong. This does not mean it is nonexistant but it is either a secret, people do not teach it, or the pretense of fajing is so great that people do not even pa...

Steveg219, Only the hairdresser knows! Within the secret world, alot of things are left unsaid and the mystery remains. Even definition is sometimes withholding regarding the truth so if our assumption is that student=disciple, then Cheng Manching is a lineage holder but that also depends if he had ...

Excellent point Louis! I tend to follow that path, where by being still, we build coherence into taijiaquan beginning with muscles and their correpsonding, origin, insertion and stretching and flexibility, where through gong (with zhanzhuang practice) we make more efficient the processes associated ...

"Ling ma bu shu" posture shows hyper-extension of the neck leaning too far back with posture being too straignt and not enought 'give' in joints. Too many right angles as opposed to more open and circular feeling. Try to increase torso radius in your postures/movements and utilize more ela...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by denzuko1: <B> I am puzzled by this because there is a fast form passed down from the Yang Shao Hou lineage. The form consist of 76 strok...

Full and empty (substantial and insubtantial) may either be subtle or obvious. A former teacher, Prof Ho Chi Kwang, when doing his version of Yang taiji used to physically raise the knee and I have incorporated this into the Chengfu/Zhenduo frame, that I have studied for awhile. The raised foot/leg ...

All respect to Yang style! I am afraid that if I answered properly that it would not be understood so I will be politically correct and say if one is skillful in all aspects of taijiquan, one would realize that the 1000 pounds being defeated by 4oz with the level of tuishou being taught today and wh...

roh, Being objective is difficult so as long as know the form and masterd it, it should be OK for you to develop, as a test, your own vision! Nothing is carved in stone. From Chen shi taijiquan, Yang developed his version, so did Wu2 and Wu3, Sun also and many others! One of my teachers who taught t...

Zhongwen and Chengfu have stated that there is no Fast Form in Yang shi taijiquan. What does exist are people who have developed a Fast Form, as a "modern embellishment" to supplement their own training rules! Here is a test: If you ask people to indicate where this Fast Form idea comes fr...

Many students of taichi imagine it as the perfect exercise and as a result ignore basic warm-up and stretching and when they attempt such postures (snake creeps down) they end up hurting themselves and they quit! Another group use wushutaijiquan criterion as gospel and also hurt themselves trying to...

Simon, When I was in university, I got tired of Hegelian philosophy and logic but it does have its place. Where is a different matter! I do enjoy Nietzche or Schopenhauer because they are more "spiritual" than logical and much of their words appear more grounded in expeience and observatio...

Simon, My observation is that modern "Western orientation" creates a mind/body division (a la Descartes) that has become so disconnected that they both drift apart instead of coming together. The concept of "xin" is apropos but it too has become more philosophy instead of practice!

Taijiquan practice may have created an awareness in that the problem existed but you have become more attuned to your surroundings!

Erle's form is definately Yang Chengfu frame and he has said that on his site. The Lao Yang (a la Luchan) is debatable because if you examine 10 people who say they do Old Yang, they will all have different posture variations. The frame is definately Yang (as opposed to Chen). In the end, it does no...

Tung/Dong's movements (as in repulse monkey) are smaller as the rear arm does not go as far back as present Yang exponents! Tung/Dong also appears to go under an attack (guessing!) as evidenced by the lowered head looking at ground in making transition movements. Same Yang form in the Chengfu pattern!