Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Louis,

I consider it as a New Year's gift to all of us I really liked it, my friend.

I agree, that's a more precise definition than just "inside" of the forearm/hand/wrist.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by shugdenla: yuri, The video was great but I have never experiened that type of fajing in any encounter relating to or coming from any Yan...

Well, my approach is probably a bit different from yours. The form (each technique, each 8 jins) is what gives us a way to express vectors of jin, so the form (and thats why the shape to some extent) is one part of the equation to me. Fu laoshi one day said to me that he often sees in parks people d...

Inside of the forearm, I belive, is more for deflecting, base of the palm is for fajin (not only of course), so the both are OK in the case of Liu as it seems to me


[This message has been edited by Yuri_Snisarenko (edited November 27, 2009).]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">While I am doing the form and in a posture that calls for a bow stance, I do however occasionally feel for whether the Jin from each foot can go straight int...

Very nice video. Classic postures and vectors of jin.

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: // Quite often "reference point" = jin point.// I think I agree with this and take advantage of this; however, sometimes...

Quite often "reference point" = jin point.

"Taiji (of YCF style) is in details" quote of Fu Qingquan



[This message has been edited by Yuri_Snisarenko (edited October 08, 2009).]

Greetings Audi, Of course I have in mind some "reference points" for each posture that were given me by Fu Qingquan laoshi. They could be pretty different reflecting specifics of particular posture. And of course as many others I still have questions doing the form - whether the posture (o...

Greetings Louis, First, thanks for the detailed reference to info about old Chinese carpentry levels. Actually I think that all these things are useful to know for understanding of that line in the Lun. I wrote about them myself in my Russian blog. <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2&...

Greetings Louis, <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Oh, and the simplified character uses the "ice" radical, but the traditional is classified under "water." This points up the hazzards of looking for graphic history in jiantizi, and blows your "cold s...

Greetings,

凖 is a quite interesting character. Could it etymologically mean "a bird standing on cold surface on one leg" (with one leg tucked up)?

What do you think guys?

Greetings Louis, I see all the logic behind what Gu says, and probably would make that commentary myself if I needed to publish a book. But to me what sometimes is given as a hint may be more interesting than a strict explanation. For instance, speaking about philosophical concept of taiji from the ...