Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi ChiDragon and Audi, Thank you both for your most recent comments and suggestions as always they are greatly appreciated. And whilst a clear consensus on the role of breathing is not to be achieved, it does provide me with plenty to think about and contemplate. As for the Beijing 24-Form, this seq...

Hi ChiDragon and Yslim, Thank you both for sharing your experiences and suggestions. Your comments are greatly appreciated and most helpful and certainly provide a more personal insight into taijiquan than online resources or books provide. Our groups form practice is focused at the moment on the 24...

Hi Audi, Thank you for your detailed and helpful post. Your suggestion to: …make learning the entire 103 Traditional Form your priority. It is a much better general tool.” and what is important at Rank 1 and 2 level are most helpful and have helped focus our studies. Again, thank you for your post a...

Hi Audi, Once again thank you for your detailed and helpful post. I have attached a copy of pg 120 from the YFTC Essentials Book. 2013-YFTC Essentials-v2.1_pg120.jpg As I read the table it suggests (to me) that the learning of the 103, 16 and the 13-Hand Forms all start from Approximate Practice Ran...

Hi Audi, Thank you for your post it was most helpful and has focused my thoughts. I particularly found your ‘Bubbling Wellspring’ example helpful. Whilst the literature can provide details of “What” to teach, examples like this make it much easier to establish a program of “How” to teach. I would we...

Hi ChiDragon, Thank you for what you described as a ‘trivial point’… which I don’t believe is so trivial. I will keep this in mind during my warm-ups and form practice. I am still working my way through the articles you recommended on breathing coordination. There is a lot to take in and to contempl...

Hi Audi, Thank you for your post and for sharing your ideas and experiences. The thought of virtual instruction is an intriguing one, which I would be happy to explore further. As I mentioned in a previous post (September 25) my search for a local instructor has not been successful, but I continue t...

Hi Frank, Thank you for your comments. Yes I am from Australia. But unfortunately not in Melbourne, I am in NSW, a bit under 2-hours drive from Sydney. I have also found in my area, as you expressed that “…few teach the traditional Yang Family Long Form. Some groups make claims but do not stand up t...

Hi GVI, I appreciate your comment that I maybe “ …adding an additional layer of challenge that may or may not be necessary. Specifically, you are looking for a Yang-family accredited instructor”. And, I fully acknowledge your comment that with “… all things being equal, that's the ideal; however, it...

Hi GVI, Thank you for your reply and the generosity of the information you have shared. I found your experiences as a trainer and teacher in the Army and how you have applied this experience to teaching tai chi fascinating… once again thank you for the generous reply I have found it most helpful. As...

Hi GVI and others, I find myself in a very similar position with a group of us also practicing in a local park. We have searched for an accredited Yang Family instructors nearby, but with no luck. We have resigned ourselves to continuing our practice together (without a formal instructor) until an a...