Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

thanks bob! all this time i have been looking for teachers in louisisana, i never thought to look in mississippi. the school in new orleans is over 60 miles from my house but now i see there is a school teaching yang style in picayune, ms., which is only about 20-25 miles from here. i will try to co...

thanks again for your knowledge, insights and concern for my plight. i really can "feel the love". i learned the form from my teacher but, to use a construction analogy, i feel like i only did the framing. now i need to do the finish work. i agree that learning the form from a book would b...

audi,
thanks for clearing that up.
shugdenla,
thanks for the reply. you sound like a very well informed guy but, and please don't be offended, your answer left me more confused than before i asked the question.

thanks again for your advice and support.
i will need all i can get.

thanks for the advice. and thanks for not calling me an idiot and telling me i should quit even trying to learn taichi chuan without a teacher like i have been told on other sites. my class is made entirely of older people, the youngest one being 68,and none of them have any experience or interest i...

i recently have been put in an unusual situation and would like your input. i am 56 years old and i have been a martial artist for years having received ranked black belts in two disciplines and high colored belt ranks in three others. this is totally irrelevant to the practice of taichi chuan but I...

as with all applications of forms in the martial arts there is a lot of room for interpretation. i would like to find if there is a definitive application for some of the postures or transitions in the form not discussed by master yang jun in the traditional form dvd. for example, the transition fro...

bob and audi, thank you for the excellent explanation and advice. it was very refreshing to get to get a response that so clearly answered my question. i had asked this very same question on a different site. the responders there ( i will be polite and call them elitist snobs ) basically told me i w...

i have questions! i had studied other martial arts for quite a few years before i started learning tai chi chuan. once i realized the value of tcc i gave up my other studies to concentrate on the grand ultimate fist. in my other studies i learned that a back fist was performed with the knuckles lead...