Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Louis: Like I said, it's not something that I delved into all that deeply other than in looking at *what* was meant by "raise" the back and the fact that it should be more "relax" was the end product. In other words, it is the same as in the other styles. Just to clarify a few...

Well, maybe the correct Yang style admonition actually means that. In which case it should be translated more like "raise your dander".

Mike

Hi Louis: I wish I knew more than the little bit I told you. As you can see though, the description you're giving via Gu is quite a bit more toward "relaxing" than "raising". Like I said, it's been a while and I can't remember all the details of the error, but it strikes me that ...

Hi Louis: I can't direct you to the exact book. I followed this lead a long time ago and I can't remember all the details. The essential point is that instead of "Raise", it is better to translate it as "Relax"... and this fact is apparently reasonably well known among Chinese ma...

Hi David: When Chen Wei Ming wrote the book for Yang Cheng Fu, he used the term Ba Bei which people took as "raise" the back, but actually the Chen, Yang, Wu, etc., "RELAX" the back. When Chen Wei Ming saw that his words were being taken wrongly, he corrected the problem in his o...

Hi Louis: I'd have to say it's a nice translation, but 70/30 refers to weight and "full vs empty" refers to jin. Often the jin is in the weighted foot, but it is not necessarily always the same. See the example I gave earlier in the double-weighted thread. Just because the legs carry both ...

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Hi Louis: you wrote: "I’m equally intrigued by another peng character (with the bird classifier instead of the hand) that is the name of an enormous mythological bird, introduced in the opening chapter of the Zhuangzi. It also happens to appear in a posture name in the Yang sword form, “Great P...

Hi Louis: You wrote: "Yang Chengfu’s push hands passage on peng in his Taijiquan tiyong quanshu mentions the Shuowen dictionary. An earlier book by Xu Yusheng, student of Yang Jianhou, quotes the Shuowen definition verbatim in the section he writes about push hands terminology." Isn't it a...

Louis Swaim says.... """I do know that in that poem peng means “the cover of an arrow quiver,” not “friend” (which lacks the hand radical). It’s the same graph as peng in taiji, borrowed perhaps for it’s poetic and metaphorical import.""" Hi Louis: I used to watch these...

I hear a lot of comments about "if you're any good, your push hands should be able to handle anything". Basically, the inference is that Taiji push hands can be anything. There seems to be a disconnect about what is push hands, what is other things, what is fighting, etc. What do people th...

Louis quoted in his earlier message.... "Double-weighting (shuangzhong): a technical term in taijiquan. In Wang Zhongyue’s “Taijiquan Treatise” it says: “Sink to one side, then follow. If double-weighted, then one will stagnate.” "Sink" in this quote refers to sinking the qi, not sink...

Hi Louis: Using Yang Jun's comment that the Yang style evolved from the Chen style as a springboard, let me make a comment or two about "double-weighted": I had a long talk with Chen Xiao Wang about "double-weighted" and asked him to show me what it meant. First off, he told me a...

Ron K said...... Pay attention to the difference between the empty leg and full leg, ie. the one leg that you are balancing on. .......................... Hi Ron: I think this comment of yours is the key to the problem in this thread... IMHO. "Empty" and "Full" refer to whether t...