Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Thanks, Louis for your reply. I agree it doesn't necessarily make any conclusive point about a missing link, but I just threw it out as a possible suggestion. Do you happen to know if Chen's teacher was personally taught by Yang Cheng Fu? If so, then that MIGHT add weight to the case for a missing l...

Dear Shugdenla, I think Y.K. Chen's book may be out of print, so you may have to get it via Abebooks or somewhere. As Louis has pointed out, there are indeed many variations of the opening movement in the Yang style, but it seems like the most straightforward one has been settled on as the canon in ...

I am very interested in this posting. I have learned Yang style Tai Chi from a Grandmaster in London and his postures are almost identical in all but a few small details to Yang Zhen Duo's postures in his book Yang Style Taijiquan, published in Beijing. I have a number of books on Yang style Chi inc...