Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Bamenwubu I wrote last post in a hasty. My explaination on pushing words was not clear. (However the second part of your statement does not seem to hold up to what I have been told. I could be wrong, heck I usually am wrong so it wouldn't surprise me a bit, but the way I understand PH's as I have...

I think pushing hand is not only to know youselves , but also to know your opponent. Lack of knowing one of them will decrease to improve the skillness of push hand. Stabilize your center and destroy your opponenet's center is a basic element on pushing hand. When following ,and sticking your oppone...

Hi Psalchemist The advice from my teacher is to want me to concentrate on what i have practice and develop my courage.It is a chinese proverb commonly used in a lot of other chinese martial arts, including shaolin, and xinyi,nan quau.The main idea of the proverb is understood that when praticing for...

Thank you for your explainations, which help me a lot.You have written too much, so it will take me much time to absort them. (Thats why Yang Lu Chan quoted only 3 kinds of people he cannot defeat; a dead man (because a dead man is 100% stiff), a wooden man (exactly like dead man)and a baby. Take yo...

But I'm loving this discussion...it makes me smile...if there is no attack, then there is no need for TaiChi. (To me this is ideal...No fight...It is one reason I appreciate TaiChi ~the non aggressive attitude which seems inherent to its essence. As a martial art, TaiChi is for use against attacks i...

Thank your for your suggestions For example, i met a stronger man with stronger force.When i pushed hand with him,i could follow his movements.But i knew i counter him with softness, and he also realized it.So he did not attack,waiting me to attack.As i knew, it is very practical to use softness in ...

I also use softness to neutralize the stronger force.However,there is a special situation.If the man with stonger force did not want to attack me ,only use his hardness to neutralize me with patience, how to attack him ?Therefore,when a stronger man attack me in pushing hands,i did not worry about i...