Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Greetings Louis,

sorry for the late reply. Do you think that in Li Yi Yu's thinking
Fu means peng
gai means an
Dui means ji
tun means lu?

Best regards
Hans-Peter

Hi Dorshugla, they depend not only on the szenarios. In Yang style small I've had to learn, that even though the most postures have the same names (and also look pretty much like)the postures of Yang CF form, they often have different philosophy. This is very obvious espacially with Single Whip. In ...

Hi, I think Audi has grasp the real sense of form's postures in the first sentences of her last post. Concerning the usage of Dan Bian I'd like to introduce some aspects I've learned from my small frame teacher: 1. Yang form posture's name is "single" whip. It deals with one attacker. Ther...

Hi Audi, again I was out of town for a while and now found your reply. Yes I also know this story about Li Jing-Lin and have also read it somewhere in the web. I think I can help you soon with a link. Furthermore I have the whole story in an extended form in an old Chen style journal. I currently tr...

Hi Audi, thanks for your highly inspiring words. I can agree with most you've mentioned, the difference is only that I view some aspects from a different point of view. Meanwhile we're talking about such fundamental aspects of Taiji, which would make it absoultely necessary to define our points of v...

Hi Michael, thanks very much for your comments. I like them and would enjoy to discuss them deeper with you and Audi - particularly concerning the lumbar spine curve - but in a few hours I have to leave for South Africa for 2 weeks and I'm very busy at the moment. After returning I'll come back with...

Hi Eulalio, what you've said in your last post sounds fairly standard to me, but I completely disagree with what you've mentioned about the difference between Taiji and Shaolin (= external) martial arts. Also in all external martial arts I've had the chance to learn a little bit, every serious pract...

Hi Audi, great post! About three parts I need further informations to understand them definitely. 1. Is in your opinion ment by (chinese) "waist" actually only the "lumbar vertebrae" or do you see the lumbar vertebrae as a part of the waist? 2. You wrote: "Do not think of ma...

Hi Audi, thanks for your premium quality reply. As I mentioned before in another thread, I feel that you have grasped the Taiji-idea very completely, probably much better than I have and you always find so fine words to express your ideas-it's really wonderful to read your posts. So I certainly agre...

Hi Audi, I appreciate to read your kind words. You touch many differnt aspects of swordplay and I try to reply to them in a systematical approach again. To my knowledge there's no publication available which I could use, so I'm not sure if it works. But maybe we'll find another way for more effectiv...

Hi Audi, I'm not sure if I understand your question concerning "lags" of the sword in relation to ji and jie right. I have an idea about what you search to understand since most swordplayers ask about this, especially when they have learned the outer form and now trying to link all posture...

Hi Audi, your questions are good ones. I'll do my best. Generally spoken - if the opponent is close you'd use cutting techniques, if he's in greater distance you'd use thrusting, striking or chopping techniques. What I term as "shao" is "xiao" (with knife-radical on the right sid...

Hi Louis, thanks very much for your words. I also consider your explanations as more plausible. After reading the complete article I also wondered, how these words could be interpreted as the translator did. The guy who sended me this article also thinks, that maybe already Chen Xin has missinterpre...

Hi Louis, I'm not absolutely sure if the phrase is from "Yong Wu Yao Yan". My friend who also did much research in Taiji has just faxed me his source, which is from a website: www.artofchina.com/Journal-cont.html Reading this translation of an article by Hong Jun Shen, I think it's also po...

Hi Audi, in your post from 06 -29 you asked, where it's written in the classics that if the left leg is solid, the left hand should be empty. I don't know if that's the only source of it, but I've got the information, that in the collection of boxing aphorisms "Yong Wu Yao Yan" edited by C...