Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

T, for whatever reason your sifu sounds like he has changed his focus and it sounds like you need to move on. i also attended a school similiar to that as well, everyone learned together beginners and advanced, but advanced did not learn too much anymore. this method is NOT the traditional way, and ...

Just curious T -- why did you feel you need to move on?? Why three bad years??

Ok, another guy from the EF forum posted it back up there. You can see it here..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb1rYHvgVFU

I have read that this film was made for the dept of education and somehow made it into Taiwan. Yes there are a bunch of differences, most likely because his tai chi was known to be of more martial flavor than a lot of todays variety. All of YCF's sons are great, but YSZ had the most instruction time...

this is downloadable to your hard drive by using a tool. then you need a flash video player - .flv extention

I find the exaggerated forward leaning to be of interest. This appears to go against what most people say today about how to perform Yang tai chi. This is not staight back like a puppet tai chi, this is something else??

have you guys seen this yet? From YOUTUBE.COM...

Yang Shou Zhong performing the entire long form!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUzXFLZH6o




[This message has been edited by yielding (edited 09-23-2006).]