Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

And the opposite, just the legs?

Does anybody practice the sequence moving only the hands and the arms. i.e, without the legs?

"Not for a long, long time." Do you mean that a long time ago you were able to do the whole form backwards? Did you learned it by yourself or with your teacher? Did you started learning from the beginning or from the end? I try it by myself like this: I do the very first movement and after...

Has anyone practice the form from de end to the beginning? That is, like a move running backward in time?

If so, is it of any use?

I've tried the first part and found it very interesting; both to the right and to the left.

Is there a full description of the form? I mean, a complete description of every single movement of arms, legs etc ? Best if it is on the internet.

Also, is there a sort of map showing more or less where on the floor should one be at each step ?

I leave very near to the beach and I would like to know wether there are any inconveniences in practicing taichichuan on the soft sand of the beach.
thanks, Filipe

Thanks for all answers. The reason I would like doing taiĝiĉûan with weights is the following. Working with weights in a gym is very boring for me, but I've found out that practicing tajĝiĉûan with weights is quite a nice thing to do. Therefore, I practice tajĝiĉûan with weights for the sake of the ...

Does anybody practice the Taichi barehand form with weights around the wrist, let us say, about 0.5kg or 1kg or more? I mean, using weights like ankle weights, but around the wrist; I don't know the name in english. Is that a good practice? Is that bad? Thanks,
Filipe

Is there a precise position to put the feet in each movement of Tai Chi? If yes, which? If not, how should one do? I made myself a rule which I'm using to draw a chart with all feet positions for the complete sequence of Tai Chi, which I shall publish in my homepage shortly http://br.geocities.com/p...

Hello, I am a new member of the Yang Family Tai Chi. I would like to contact other members who speak the International Language Esperanto. I would like to share information about the Yang style Tai Chi in Esperanto, like books, vocabulary etc. I prepared myself a list of Tai Chi movements in Esperan...