Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi Audi, thanks very much for your interest in the way I do Ban lan chui. I'll do my best to describe what I "actually" prefer to do. My left hand don't cross my midline, since my navel points the same direction as the toes of my right foot, which is to SE (although I generally use a bit l...

Hi Audi, good to hear that you can benefit from my list. My chinese is also very limited. So I look forward to the translation of YZD's book. But you should keep in mind, that only at a higher level of understanding you can order the basic sword techniques in 8 or maybe in 4 or 5 families. What I've...

Hi Audi, in my general guideline of Ban Lan Chui I deflect the right arm of the opponent with my right backfist. He then can come out with his left. I parry his left at the hight of my chest with my left backhand or with my left forearm. You can check with a mirrow, that even the forearm is enough t...

Hi Audi, I think I understand your problem now. You are not sure which basic sword techniques are featured in the end positions of the specific movements. Since to my knowledge there's no such list, I've made one for the Yang sword form as shown by YZD. First I) give a short explanation of the techn...

Hi Audi, I'd like to let you know some ideas I have from one of my teachers who was chinese and taught the traditional Yang Sword form as shown by YZD. He first mentioned, that this sword form - although many applications for every posture could be choreographed - should mainly be viewed as a vehicl...

Hi Audi, my actual ideas about the punch are these: After the right backfist has deflected something downward, it prepares for a heavy blow. You try to hide this from the opponent's eyes. Therefore you hide the right hand in good position behind the left hand (that's why in Chen style this posture i...

Hi, thanks for the the clear words on YZD's techniwue. Louis, your absolutely right - I also mean that the endposition of the Ban Lan Chui move is to East. W is nonsens. The Ban Hou Cannon fist is on a chinese video production, I guess it was for TV. I've seen many "made up" things, but th...

Hi Louis, it's great for me to follow your translations of Gu Liuxin concerning Ban Lan Chui. Over the years I've been told in different places, that beside Lan Que Wei this is the heart of Yang Style TJQ. So I always worked a lot on Ban Lan Chui and viewed everything I could get about it particular...

Hi Louis, thanks very much for your informations. Concerning "Lianhuanbu" - just yesterday a chinese friend who teaches Bagua told me, that there's a Lian Huan "Zhang" in Bagua. Without giving more informations, he said that I just have to use the underlying principle for the fee...

Hi Erik and Louis, thanks very much for your replies. The tip to look at Sun Lutang is particularly helpful. As I said, I've knowed this stance from other external arts and always used it in Yang forms (Ban Lan qui, Punch down a. o.) but wasn't aware of that it has a special name. What's still puzzl...

Hallo to everyone, I like to mix up the discussion with what I consider as double weighting as a current resumee of all I've heared or read about it. I think that Double weighting is a very complex "concept" with many layers of understanding. I think that by no means it could be considered...

Hallo to everyone, in my chinese book about Yang Shaohou's small frame form, it is obviously, that a certain kind of stance is used very frequently. Although I don't speak chinese, I've decoded the concerning characters and found as a name for this stance: "lian2zhi1bu". I've translated it...

Hi Eric, interresting for me to read about your combat footwork. I've also been told to use cross-step frequently to give movements more spiral-form. Do you have other fixed postures in YZD's sword form where you use it in applications? Do you use cross-step in the barehandform too? I've been taught...

Hi to all, I'd like to reply to some special topics of the fine last posts. Louis, I'm very happy about your statement concerning "left foot full, left hand empty" principle. Before trying internal arts, I've learned some external forms and have never heared about this principle there. Mor...

Hi Audi, while browsing through the older topics of this forum, I found your post. I don't know if it's still up to date, but if it is I'd like to say some words to Big Dipper. If you meanwhile knew other applications - nice if you'd let me know. I hope you'll find this post after such a long time. ...