Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Exists two ways of shifting the body weight when we advancing or turning: 1. First turn and after shift the body weight (pivot on the full leg) - [some call it traditional way] 2. Firs shift the body weight and after turn (pivot on the empty leg) - [some call it standard way] OK, I understand that o...

Erle Montaigue authenticity? Erle Montaigue is a very controversial person. His teaching is diferent from others "traditional" masters and he affirm that he teach the "Old Yang Style". Many think that hi is a quack and his style a fake, many honour him as a genuine master and a k...

I consider to buy the Erle Montaigue Old Yang Taijiquan Beginner's Self Teaching Videos: - Yang Cheng Fu Form - 1x DVD - Yang Lu Chan Old Yang Style Form - 1x DVD - Basic Push Hands - 1x DVD - Basic Small and Large San-Sau - 1x DVD - How to Use Taiji & Bagua for Fighting - 2x DVD - Yang Cheng Fu...

What about the videos of Daniel Lee or Vincent Chu?
Exist any DVD about traditional Yang Style Taijiquan martial applications?
Thanks for any good advice or recomendation!

I am searching for a good video on Yang Style Taijiquan Martial Applications. Does anybody know where Can I find It?
Does anybody seen the videos of Erle Montaigue or Mark Cheng? What's your opinion?

In my research of the lineage of the "secret" style (the original style of Yang Lu Chan that he not teach openly) I find that Raymond Cooper (Nganga Mfundishi Tolo-Naa) teach the secret style too (he learned from Hou Chi Kwang, who learned it from Yang Shou Hou). Everybody knows if the for...

JerryKarin, some students in the photos that practise YMT do it like a dance (see images of the YMT wokrshops: http://www.aymta.org/MichImages/GLH2.html ). All I read about Wang Yen Nien says that he is a great martial artists (maybe one of the best ever)! Is the YMT (postures) form (you say that ha...

I am interested for the martial aplications of the postures of the Yang style Taijiquan long form ! I own these books on Taijiquan martial applications: - Practical Use of Tai Chi Chuan: It's Application and Variations - Yang Sau Chung - Tai Chi Chuan: Its Efects & Practical Applications - Yearn...

Some information on YMT is aviable on www.aymta.org and on www.grtc.org When I watch the photos of the YMT it seems more a New Age dance rather than a martial art. Are there any reasonable explanation of the existence of YMT? Is YMT really a secret or is a lie? Wang Yen Nien is well known martial ar...

What do you think about Yangjia Michuan Taijiquan [Yang Family Hidden Taijiquan]? Wang Yen Nien openly teach this style of "Yang" Taijiquan (he says that it was passed down to Zhan Qin Lin from Yang Jian Hou). 1. Do you know the postures of this form? 2. What are the main differences betwe...