Hello Fred! Wonderful videos of "soft" push hands! I can clearly see the influence of Dr. Tao Ping-siang in your techniques and responses! He may have been the softest of all of Cheng Man-ch'ing's students! Hope to see some more of your video clips in the future! In friendship, Danny Emerick
Hello again Fumin! Yes, I THOUGHT you had studied with Dr. T'ao by the way you moved in your video clips! Very Nice! I lived in Taipei from 1981-1985 and studied T'ai Chi with Mr. Liu Hsi-heng, another senior disciple of Prof. Cheng. I saw Dr. T'ao many times in Taiwan in the 1980's, and I have T'ai...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Simon Batten: Danny: apart from the moves that Da Liu put back into the CMC version and that I have mentioned, the following are also le...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clarkleroy: <B> A well known translator/publisher is working on a bio of CMC. She contacted me & i have sought information on that s...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by clarkleroy: <B> A young Zhang QinLin may be seen in an old photo of Master Chengfu riding in the back seat of an open, old car driven by...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Steveg219: <B> I would like to thank everyone on this list for creating such a positive environment. I have tried to find other communii...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by HengYu: <B>I watched a documentary abouthe Vietnam war about 15 years ago, and in it, Ho Chi Minh was filmed practicing what looked like...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B>Also, to state the obvious, lists reflect the knowledge and diligence of the list makers, so one shouldn't be too surpri...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B>Greetings Danny, The lists are different because they have to do with different categories. The Cui list is a list of di...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by yslim: <B>Hi Danny You do good work! As for the name of #9 and #14's is same Chang Ch'ing-lin May I suggest the second word of #9 change...
I also want to say "thanks" to Shugdenla, Louis, Simon and Jerry for the kind words... As you might have figured out, I am indeed a card carrying member of the CMC "cult", and have been for 30 years!... I was introduced to Prof. Cheng's T'ai Chi when I met Mr. Robert W. Smith in ...
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Bob Ashmore: <B>Danny, Very good research. I, for one, have never doubted that CMC was a disiple of Yang Cheng Fu, but I know there are ...