Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

In Tai Chi, it can be practice at any physical condition. Unfortunately, the advancement depends on the initial physical condition of the practitioner. If a person is weak to begin with, by practicing for a long time, then the physical fitness will be improved progressively. Hence, it takes longer ...

I am telling what it is. Can anyone tell me what it is not? :lol: :lol: :lol: The “Boxers” believed that their martial art training made them invulnerable to bullets, and it is unlikely that any words could have convinced them otherwise; but they learned the truth when the bullets ripped through th...

Ah, to have such inflated expectations! It reminds me of the martial artists from the Boxer Rebellion who thought that their training would protect them from bullets! Did not happen! Although not all that James says is false (there is enough in there to make what he says sound reasonable), I do cont...

You are referring to why non-historic performance weapons are designed the way that they are rather than historic weapons as used during the Qing Dynasty when TJQ was being developed? Qing designs have reasons for them that concern handling properties during combat, and their understanding of Yin an...

Throughout the Qing Dynasty, practitioners of TJQ probably trained in swordsmanship as if they were using a real weapon, even if all they could afford was to pick up and use a branch that was lying on the ground. Today’s weapons, even if they look closer to real weapons, are only training one to dan...

A dao with the characteristics that you describe would fair poorly when compared to a historically accurate one, and indicates that you may only know weapons for performance, where the weapon is merely a prop. Perhaps the negatives could be overcome when using it two-handed, but it would be poorly d...

In comparison, the Katana was made for combat; and the YSTC sabre was designed for the purpose of Tai Chi practice. I really do not understand the point of this comment. Do you think that the practice dao design is somehow better for learning TJQ than if someone used a historically accurate reprodu...

It was my curiosity too. It just happened to be that had ran across something about why the Yang sabre style had changed recently. At one time during a Tai Chi demo by Yang Cheng Fu, after his performance, someone asked him to do the sabre demo too. However, there was no traditional sabre available...

On a totally unrelated note, I also recently updated a post on Tai Chi, if anyone wants to see how my dad (the Tai Chi sifu) moves in comparison to me here: http://www.dottaichi.com/WhyStableBodyStructure.html Ronald, I complement you on your attitude, especially your admiration of your father, and...

Hi yslim & toportime, The original (wrong/gmail) link was because I had sent this video to my students [Lim: I work full time still, so I currently only teach one class a week in Pittsboro, NC; every other week is interactive weapons, the alternate weeks are weaponless - push-hands, sanshou, etc...

Sorry, try this link instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQsVuW7XKww

(corrected in previous post)

Toportime, Many TJQ schools practice push-hands primarily for sensitivity. But, depending on one’s definitions of push-hands, and the purpose for the practice, the following video could be considered as a very good example of TJQ push-hands practice that incorporates much more than sensitivity train...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213422016300725 I think this is probably the best and most supportive of the information that you have posted so far. It points out that there are studies (it is a review article, not original research) that link an increase in mtDNA with exercise...

If the heartbeat is very fast , there is less time for the heart chamber to fill with blood between beats. Therefore, not enough blood is pumped to the brain and the rest of the body with each contraction. ... It is often seen in people with conditions that lower the amount of oxygen in the blood ....

Although I pointed out that the sample size in the previously cited research is rather small (only 29, although they range in age from 1 hour to 95 years old), and the researchers pointed out that the possibility for muscle atrophy in their samples taken from patients undergoing hip operations needs...