Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Well... I dunno about benefiting your form. Are these the same style of TCC, or different? As I said, it's up to you who you train with. Now, understand that there can be problems training too many differing styles at once. Each style emphasizes a different aspect of TCC. Each Master has a different...

Why not ask your Sifu? He will be the only one who will know how he will feel about it. Some get quite testy, others freely espouse getting all the training you can get. Whether polite or not, and even if your Sifu does get testy about it, it's up to you in the long run whether to train with other t...

Psal, Opening and closing is something that I didn't used to pay any attention to, but I've seen quite a bit about it lately, and Master Yang Jun mentioned it quite a bit during the seminar, so I am now. I think I'm starting to get the concept, at least I can put it into active use when I'm sparring...

I stand corrected, the streaming video along the side of the screen on the Wu family website no longer plays all the time, like it used to. Now it's a very short few shots strung together on the home page as it opens, then it stops. I miss it. It ate up my bandwidth, though, so I can see why they pr...

Louis, Quite a few people have told me something that I don't think I quite understood until just now seeing these photos, only a couple of which I've seen before. Well, that's not true, this might be the sequence of photo's from that the Wu family has playing in streaming format on the front page o...

Jerry, If you need someone to proof read that translation along the way..... ;-) Since I can't read a word of chinese, I would be no good along those lines. I would, very much, like to see it when you're done though. And I've heard of the Zhu book, but have no skill in reading chinese, of course, so...

Louis, It probably is DW's translation. That name sounds very familiar, if I'm remembering correctly I think he's the one doing the English translation of the Gold Book for the Wu family. Don't quote me on that, my memories not the best for that kind of thing. I got this, as I said, from my mother. ...

Wow!!!!!!!!!
Jerry, thanks.
I LOVE these photo's.
I've sent this link to every Wu stylist I know.
I can't read a word of it, but I do love the form photo's.
Thanks, again.

Audi, Polaris, all, Last fall I got onto a big kick about "bamen", the eight gates or eight methods. I was looking for anything that could explain to me, in detail, what the eight methods are and a little about what they mean. I even did some digging and asking on this web site. My mother,...

Michael, Which e-mail address did you use? I've checked the wushuer address I use as my contact here, and there's nothing there from anyone but a few spams (I'm so un-popular!). Let me know if you have a different address, and I'll check there. I used to use a different address on this site, and I t...

Michael, I've been out and haven't checked my "tai chi" e-mail box this past week or so. It was my wedding anniversary this past weekend, and what with all the seminars and classes and push hands group practices and such that I've been involved in lately, not to mention the hours and hours...

Chris, Then what is, in your opinion, the proper thing to ask? Because once I knew what "lineage" was, that's the only question I've ever asked. Since then, I've only ever trained at two schools. They both had a really good answer. I have never been disapointed with it. What else can you u...

I was fishing around on Yahoo today, looking to see what kind of websites they might have there, as most web sites about TCC are not usually very good. I found a yahoo group that fascinated me. It has very little content. In fact, only one message, no photos, no files. You can't even call up a membe...

Yuri, It does take practice to see the internal energies without the external getting in the way. It's worth taking the time, though. I believe you're going to find that this new way of getting training is pretty much worldwide. If there is someplace out there that you can still bow before your prop...

Kal, The car accident was a turning point in my life. It messed me up, badly, for a long time. In fact, according to my PT and Orthopedic Surgeon, the damage to my neck and upper back is permanent. I have a heck of a time any time the weather changes, and when it's cold... Let's just say I have it w...