Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Jerry, Thanks for your response ! I started learning the Dao two weeks ago. According to my teacher orientation, the Jian will be learned later (farway), so I am not focusing on it now. I am currently using the mongolian type saber you mentioned, with a round guard and a flexible end blade. Regards ...

Ok, the saber adopted by Yang Family is this with a hard blade. But what about the other types with flexible blade and rounded guard handle that we mostly see in TC videos, they can also be used with the same form ? Does it strongly influences the form execution ? I am asking because I only have acc...

I have noticed that there are more than one type of SABER (a hard blade and a flexible one), which one is really drived for Tai Chi Chuan ? I also found two types of handle, one with a rounded guard (as in katana sword) and other with a cross stick guard (as an arabian sword). As I am just starting ...

Hi Audi, Sorry for the linguistic mess with "laid-back" and thanks for the clarification. I have been involved during last weeks into becoming natural with the execution of the long form starting from right and also from the left (which we call inverse form). It is a good technical exercis...

Hi Audi, You mentioned in your last post the "laid back execution of the form". Does it means that you train the execution of the whole long form in the inverted sequence of movements, from the last one to the beginning ? It appears to be so difficult for concatening that I didn't even thi...

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There is somebody there to help me with this issue ?

Regards
Elder

Does anyone knows if there is Taichi Chuan Masters Catalog containing the names and style of each one that got a Master degree in their style and if it can be acessed thru the WEB ?

I do the fast and slow forms just for TC training. I used to perform the long form in 40 minutes in the normal speed. The slow beat trains the energy flow, so you can see the movements happening without muscular work, it's amazing ! (each movement lasting around 1 minute) I use the fast beat to trai...

Michael, The advice you received from Yang Jun is very real, I had an accident this week while training the application form with sparing. I missed attention for just a second while pushing and my partner was thrown far away with an involuntary fajing . My advice is never miss attention while traini...

Hi Audi, I practice TC Yang Style and had never an opportunity to see an exibition of the "Old Yang Style". I had only read that it contains some explosive movements. I even don't know if it is faster or slower than the "Traditional TC Yang Form", but I understood that it is an I...

Audi, Thank you for the response, good points ! Sometimes, in our classes, we train the form in a very fast beat which we call "Yang form", with the same movements, but executed faster and "marking" each one with more power and louder breathing. We had opportunity to feel some so...

Thank you all for the responses. I visited the sites mentioned and it shows that there is a controversy in Yang Style TC lineage regarding to Yang Jian Hou sons: Yang Chen Fu and his brother Yang Shao Hou ! But as David mentioned, Yang Chen Fu eventually included Fa jin to his advanced students. So ...

I have noticed that some times you get the head face red and hot, when you practice TC for a long time without pausing (1 hour or more). It was explained as a breathing fault, as a necessity to bring down Qi to the lower tan-tien, which can be done enhancing breathing to be more deeper and lower, th...

I read an article regarding to Nei Kung, with a series of twelve Yin exercises and a complementary series of twelve Yang exercises. The Yin exercises are designed to develop health and physique. The Yang exercises are designed to increase our power and physical strength. Does somebody on this forun ...

Hi, For enrichment on this topic I would like to comment about my Yang style school orientation. All movements are explained, since the beginning, with the application meaning, mainly if the student asks for. As an example the "dam bien" (single whip) was explained as defending from two op...