Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Yielding, Does the book explain why the forms are different, or does it just describe the postures? Yes it does explain and depict every posture of each frame (he demonstrates 'short' versions of each form for the purpose of this book, i.e., small, medium, and large) as well as explain the found...

Hi All, For anyone interested, I thought I'd post the new book Vincent Chu just put out. It's over 350 pages and a good quality product for those interested in Vincent's perspective on the various frames and usage. http://www.gstaichi.org/english/comparativeTaiChiChuan.php http://www.gstaichi.org/en...

Speaking of Yang Sau Chung's (Zhen ming) form being similiar to Wu's..... I am trying to find out more about a public push hands event Yang had with Wu's grandson n Hong Kong. It was held in the 60's I think. I heard it was suppose to be a friendly push hands event, but it got nasty when Wu tried to...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: One man's opinion: not worth it. You have tons of tiny bones and ligaments in your hand. Don't mess them up with parlor tric...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Taichikid: <B>Jing is something im still a bit confused on. Sure I can generate fajing, ie But for some reason I just cant grasp if it i...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clarkleroy: Better, Yang Zhenming. There definitely were issues between those two. YSC should have requested the material his father loa...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clarkleroy: Reader, should you have the opportunity to meet students of Manqing or Yang Shouchung, please greet them for me. Today (1993...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by mls_72: Yielding- Your ideology of taijiquan in combat is a romantic one, primarily based on an 80 year old man with long white hair and...

Hi Bob, please don't be offended, i am only trying my best to understand what we are looking at. so we disagree, no big deal, maybe at some point i will see something else. truthfully, i didn't think it possible to produce an integrated issue of energy (a fajin strike) without a firm contact point (...

the way fighting is described by the people who witnessed the early Yangs in "situations" does not sound anything like what happened in the Chen/Wu fight to me. usually, "encounters" were dealt with quickly and efficiently. i really don't think there was much "running around...

well, i took another good look at that video clip, and i still don't agree with what has been said. first off it repeats each round like two times, so some people may not be aware of that. the editing is extremely suspect, not that it matters really. it appears to me that the match was extremely clo...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bob Ashmore: <B>Yielding, You have obviously never seen this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8VbSc1r5UI Enjoy! </B></font><HR></BLOCKQU...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by T: I agree that Sanshou is not taijiquan, and I mean no disrespectbut, just out of curiosity what do you consider martial taijiquan? </f...

oops, i just noticed you said it was NOT tai chi chuan. My mistake. Why do you post this on a tai chi website though? Just curious.

All that is cool and nothing wrong with training boxing, sparring, and MT, but since you seem to spend more time practicing external methods than internal (going by what you said), how is that you think you are really using any tai chi chuan at all?? Frankly, and I mean no disrespect, but I see no T...