Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: I don't know a great deal about physiology, but I once saw David Leang give a very convincing demonstration of opening up jo...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: <B>Here are the two references: .............[[snip]] </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Hmmm. OK. I see what Audi is referring to...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: <B> Mike and Gryknght, I like what you all have said in general about "song," but respectfully disagree that opening is ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: <B>I'm glad you brought up Yang Chengfu's description of 'as if sealed, as though closed'. I had always thought of this as h...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by tai1chi: <B> I was wondering, were you referring by any chance to the legend of "Ah Ching" or the "Maiden of Yueh"? ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B>Even though the exact lines of filiation elude us, it's fascinating to find these traces of what must have been precurso...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B> Neat! Where did you find the Tang Shunzhi quote? Here's Douglas Wile's version of Tang Shunzhi's (1507-1560) "Song...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: <B> I wouldn't make too much of the 'Jade Lady' idea. It's really an ancient literary trope and appears all over whenever a ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B> I checked my copy of Shen Jiazhen & Gu Liuxin’s 1963 book, _Chen Shi Taijiquan_, and found the following remark in ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B> In Yang Chengfu’s description of the Jade Maiden sequence in the form, he says, “In this form, the left and right hands...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: <B>I am going to keep all the public forums as is, except for the ask Yang Jun forum, which will be moved into a private, As...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by tai1chi: <B> And, perhaps, "mind-controlled strength skill" is an accurate description of something called "jin." Bu...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by gryknght: <B>Mike, I don't see it as a separate topic so much as a first (albeit small) step toward peng jin development. I was also hop...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by gryknght: <B>I think the discussions on jing are critical to western understanding of the terms, but can we swing this thread back to &q...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by JerryKarin: We do the best we can and have to accept that inevitably whatever we do with jing ends up as a convention or conventions for...