Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

On Yielding, I have written a blog entry (or two :-) ) on it http://neijiachuan.wordpress.com Basically, properly speaking, yielding is Zou Hua, you have to move (Zou) and not too much, so you can Hua. Either one is insufficient, you need both. And as my mantra, most people do not yield, they redire...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: Last few lines of this first section: 4. 动急则急应，动缓则缓随。 5. 虽变化万端，而理为一贯。 6. 由招熟而渐悟懂劲，由懂劲而阶及神明。 7. 然非用力日久，不能豁然贯通焉。 He moves fast...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bamboo leaf: <B>The basic practice itself, will. But the practice must be based on these ideas from the beginning. It starts from the fi...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yuri Snisarenko: <B>The passage I've translated in Chinese: Ì«¼«¹¦·¨ËµÃ÷ Ì«¼«¹¦·¨ÊÇÈÚ¶¯Óë¾²ÓÚÒ»Ìå¡¢ ¿ª·¢ÈËÌåÉñÒâÆø֮DZÄܵÄÒ»Öָ߲ã´ÎµÄÄÚ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: I would take a little more than you have circled: 右掌边后撤边抓拳, "the right palm simultaneously withdraws backward and forms...

Shanghai Wu Fast Form punch is a little bit different from the normal punch. In the book, it is written as: http://www.dragonsgate.net/pub/richard/wu_fastform_punch.jpg In a different edition of the book, the 2nd word (edge/side?) is removed. To see it in action, take a look at Shen Tie Gen Wu Fast ...

A point of reference is that Mr. Liao interpretation is somewhat unique. Few if any, other books or teachers, use the same interpretation. FWIW.
// richard

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: Heh heh, well it may not be so brilliant. I was talking to Yang Jun at the seminar in Connecticut about this passage and his...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: ... As for Needle at Sea Bottom, I remember some connection with Shakyamuni Buddha, but I also thought that one of the early mythi...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: 入门引路须口授, 功夫无息法自修. "Entering the gate and tracing the route requires oral instruction, with ceaseless work, the method b...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Pamela: <B>Chi it sings the inner song, and is grateful to be sung. Vibrations of the minds intent, humming with the spirits tongue. Chi...

re: Gu Dang Jin

In reference to this video of a Wu Tu Nan student: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwxBKGcG5zA

Look to about 32 seconds in, there is some sort of hand shaking thing going on there. Some guy claims that is the Gu Dang Jin.

FWIW.
// richard

Ha ha, my apology. I finally slogged thru most of the Conscious Movement thread (bamboo_leaf is right, you guys write a lot :-) ) and noted that there is already a discussion of Qi Yi Gu Dang's meaning. BTW, the word aroused is also an interpretation :-) Qi <changing body postures> <some metaphor wi...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: <B>The text says nothing about "must be able to travel throughout your body without hinderance". Louis' translatio...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B>Greetings Richard, Thank you for your remarks. I’m interested, however, in Li Yiyu’s specific use of the gudang tem in t...