Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Audi <<< I am also not sure that I can lay claim to inventing the term "sunken" in this context, but I used itbecause I was taught that Cheng Manching counseled against straightening either the arms or the legs because this caused the qi to rise. Instead, one wanted to keep the qi in th...

Audi wrote
"always seemed to me that this
matched the dynamics of the sunken bow stance taught by Cheng Manching"

Hi Audi, what do you mean by "sunken Bow stance " i'm not familiar with this term can you explain


Mario

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by mnpli: <B>O.K. one last stab at this. Who knows maybe I who don't read all the Chinese stuff, may actually be able to help the both of y...

I'm not much of a reader, so i probably can't add much to this,' raise the back' thread , but one think comes to mind, I have heard that in the old days, when somebody was getting ready to retaliate physically . He would worn the antagonist and say to him "don't get my back up" or "yo...