Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Thanks a lot Polaris.
Yes he have a school in Germany. Hope he will come to my country (italy) on of these days. There is a stage here in may of one of his instructors but I didn't like too much the way she practise (for what i see on her web site..looks a like a new age stage...hmmm).

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Any book to recommend for the 42 barehand and sword competitive forms? Any video or other usefull materials?

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I would like to make a stage with Master Wu Ma Jiang Bao. Anyone that have practiced with him? Wushuer did you know him or his lineage? I'd like to know suggestions and comments how to start with Wu Style Taijiquan. This is my 6th year of YCF style practice so just at the first step of a long way. I...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: <B>Hi Gianluca and Jerry: Gianluca, I have to say that I am not familiar with the type of movement you describe for the striking a...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Audi: <B>Hi Gianluca: I am not sure what you are describing, and so I am not sure I can provide a useful response. Could you try describ...

I'd like to know if anyone here practice Hai Di Zhen in Yang form as in the "semplified 24 routine". I know this posture comes after different ones in Yang Traditional and 24 so my interest is only in the posture not in any transition. Did you lower the hittig hand before lowering the body...

I've figured out that "pull up the moon from the sea bottom" is a meaning of something difficult or impossibile to do. I think it's a phrase easy to understand even for a occidental. But your work is gone deeper than this and as always is like a treasure for me. One of the applications of ...

Yes that book seems so interesting for me. If the errors are relative to transliteration i think is not a minor problem. Well i obviously got other sources to compare and integrate with but for me and other person that don't have a knowledge of chinese is a real problem. The author have done a good ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Louis Swaim: <B>Greetings Gianluca, The formula text is translated in the book you mention, Yang Jwingming’s _Tai Chi Secrets of the Yan...

In Yang Jwing Ming book "Tai Chi Secrets of the Yang Style" there is a reference to a posture called "Pick Up the Moon from the Sea Bottom" (Hai Di Lao Yue). Is it present in the YCF form? I have downloaded the preview in PDF format of the book while waiting to get it so i have g...