Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Really Bob...I sense a little attitude. I don't know why since I don't think my tone or content should have been construed that way. Perhaps the very 1st thing being a Smile emoticon didn't convey that? If you met me, we'd either be drinking tea or beer...whichever you prefer. :) You said, imaginary...

Subitai, One of the major downsides to Tai Chi Chuan homework is that you can't get away with telling your teacher that the dog ate it. :lol: About the pluck being preferable... Sometimes yes, sometimes no. It really just depends on where my opponent is, where I am, and what we are both doing at th...

Love the input Bob...it shows you've done your homework...:) About the Cai or pluck or grab of the wrist...I prefer it for a few reasons: - mostly because if I know where my opponents arm is at ALL times it cannot hurt me. If he makes a change, yield or rotation it's easier to feel. - without contro...

Hi fchai , I'll give you a general theme as to how my school looks at it. Obviously others on here may view it differently. GENERALLY Speaking: Assuming one hand is controlling / holding a wrist for example and the other arm is attacking. The way I learned "parting horse main", is usually ...

Here part 2 of our TJ. A bit simplified but basically all there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqLnGpLDngo

World Tai Chi Day 2015....more on follow:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewFVuT5KmF4

Hi Audi... Haven't been back here in a while and saw some posts. Audi wrote: I hadn't considered that you might want to change the technique according to the direction. Also, my training has not really focused on specific scenarios or the effect on the opponent, and so your detail about what point y...

Thanks for the comments Audi :) I think we're all the same...most of us in the Martial Arts world i.e., "we love to keep learning". If you have any references on your patterns, mabe videos or articles i'd love to check them out. Much appreciated. About what you said: one thing I might do d...

A couple people had requested me privately to show a drill for the elbow splitting.

Here's one I did with one of my students...albeit he's still kinda new to Taiji.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvb_p1q ... Pk3R055hDw

Best to you guys. "O"

Hi, I can't speak for all families but most Tai chi styles would never make a front bow stance (Or any Stance for that matter) with a leg that is completely locked out straight. The concept I learned was 5 bows of the body. So the four limbs + the body itself has the characteristic energy of a bow o...

Sure UniTaiChi, :) I don't mind the discussion or else I wouldn't have shared. Let me also say that I chose very carefully to share these things in a thread titled "Many different styles of Yang Tai Chi". So in this regard...I chose share our simple Tai Chi. I would never presume that it i...

Awesome Bob! It's nice to see like-minded people about the application of Tai Chi. When I 1st moved back to the east coast here (in Southeastern, CT)...honestly compared to the San Fran bay area it was mostly a bunch of "Fuddy - Duddies" (haha 1st attempt at spelling that). Anyway, I encou...

Here's video version of Part 1 I have put together for my students:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fnNmrMg ... e=youtu.be


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Ok done reading... 1st i'm a NON Yang Family assoc. practitioner so you can ignore me...no worries. DPasek had asked me to comment is all. :) You guys pretty much said most of the things I was going to say, great show! Sean spoke about it being a soldier's weapon...spot on. But more over the arrow o...

Hi guys, Please excuse my interjection...as I was kind of invited to participate in this thread by DPasek :) I 1st decided that I have to read through the thread and about half way along... a thought occurred to me about the discussion of the Broadsword misnomer. I was going to type it up myself but...