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- Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:24 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Thoughts on the Wubu & Bamen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3637
Hi Audi, I have to approach your arguments one by one. I'm snipping, but hopefully not distorting. >[Audi] This disregard for physical directions might seem absurd to some and indeed may be >completely off base. I have posted this to provoke thought rather than to advance a theory that I have worked...
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:10 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Thoughts on the Wubu & Bamen
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3637
Thoughts on the Wubu & Bamen
Hi, I've moved Audi's comments to a new thread to make them easier to discuss. [Audi] A third choice is to see the wubu as describing power interchanges that govern the different stages or steps necessary to complete any one posture. I am not much of an expert on Five Element Theory, but I will try ...
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:00 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
- Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:17 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
- Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:55 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
Hi Audi, Hope you can excuse the delays in my replies. Class has begun, and I’m swamped. Anyway, you wrote >I am not advocating any separation of the wubu from the bamen. What I meant was that although >directional and compass terms are used with respect to the bamen, these are not their principal e...
- Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:38 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10175
- Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:52 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10175
- Mon Jan 24, 2005 6:30 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Embrace Tiger, Return to Mountain
- Replies: 16
- Views: 10175
- Sat Jan 22, 2005 7:35 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
- Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:09 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
- Fri Jan 21, 2005 6:58 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
- Thu Jan 20, 2005 6:42 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Yang Family tai chi chuan 2005
- Replies: 17
- Views: 5841
Hi Bob, I think you speak for a lot of people, and your words are especially relevant because you come from another tradition. I agree with you wholeheartedly the deeds of Yangs and those in their associations speak well for their characters. If that is something worth learhing; they have been excel...
- Sun Jan 16, 2005 2:11 am
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
- Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:57 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721
- Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:14 pm
- Forum: Tai Chi Chuan - Barehand Form
- Topic: Turn, Rotate, Revolve, Spin
- Replies: 73
- Views: 21721