Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

FWIW, if anyone is interested: I've been told that there is an old man in China who does Yang Lu Chan's form.

DJ

Hi yangchengfu04, I learned within the Tung School, and we also begin the long form with the hands rising facing each other, and we use both weighted and unweighted pivots. Tai Chi Chuan is not the movements, it is the principles. The long form is made of movements to which the principles have been ...

Greetings Rafael, Good question. I have been told that the Tung/Yang Style school uses teaching Methods developed by Yang Chen Fu. I have found teachers that Tung Kai Ying has taught to be consistant in how they teach. Regards, David J Using: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr Saludos Rafae...

Hi Louis, Perhaps frozen is related to cold the way 'to "stop someone cold" in his tracks,' is related to the police yelling "Freeze!" or the idea of "freezing up." As things stiffen up the colder they get I would not be surprised if "cold" and "frozen&qu...

Greetings All, I've been told that the one of the purposes of the long form is to exercise every muscle and joint in the body and do it in such a way that no part of the body is overstressed at any time. That the long form was put together that way without everything having both left- and right-hand...

Greetings Polaris, You wrote, > What I've been doing here, for the sake of discussion if nothing else, is giving one opinion concerning how important it is to and therefore to what degree one should "buy into" the syllabus of a traditional martial art school. < That depends on the school. ...

Hi Audi, > My understanding is that the Yangs give downward movements of the body (the trunk?) as examples of natural places to breathe out and upward movements as natural places to breathe in. A specific example I recall is breathing out when bending forward in Needle at Sea Bottom and breathing in...

Hi Michael, rvc_ve,

How do you define reverse breathing?

Thanks,

David J

Hi Audi, The most important thing to know about breathing in both the form and applications is to breathe. Sometimes people have an urge to hold their breath when exerting themselves, and, even though this can be tolerated in a certain percentage of the population, I believe this is incorrect. When ...

Hi All,

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DJ

Hi wtracy, You wrote, > Since I cannot be of help to others without being accused of stating things that are not true, this will be my last post in this forum. < The idea was not confrontation. For me, people agreeing and disagreeing with one another is part and parcel of discussion. Having been tau...

Hi wtracy, A short note. On the Photo Comments thread Jerry Karin wrote, > The way Yang Chengfu executed many of the moves seems to have changed quite a bit between the two sets of photos. Hand placement in White Crane, for example, is quite different. The orientation of the fists is different in a ...

Wusherer, Runnning roughshod on someone can include sounding off when you are really not answering the issues. Your answer is not really an answer. At no time have I disagreed with how good internal training can be. You don't have to inaccurately knock running and weight training to elevate internal...

Hello wtracy, I don't know why, but your experience differs widely from mine. You seem to have a lot of small inaccuracies > To my knowledge, there is no one today teaching the Dong style the way Ying-Jie taught it. All his students, including his sons, have modified the style somewhat. But having m...

Hi Psalchemist, > That is something novel to my ear..."Acupuncture points as areas of LOWER conductivity...as resistors...Great analogy. > Just as using gold tipped patch cords improves sound quality on a stereo, by lowering the resistance at the junction? It's the other way around: when you lo...