Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Louis,

Love this one:

"keeps your keel in the water"


I guess we could find an analogy for the rudder as well. The sacrum? 'seven stars'?
Perhaps the sail (Opening/Closing) and the wind (Jin/Qi) as well?

Jeff

Here is an excerpt from Wang Yongquan on this topic. Jeff Wang Yongquan, 1990. Yang Shi Taijiquan Shuzhen. Beijing: Renmin Tiyu. Page 2 Yún: Even. refers to a dynamic eveness. Movements, postures, breathing all require eveness. Within this even dynamism one tries to embody the special features of be...

Sishou can be used to refer to peng, lv, ji, and the basic push hand pattern that uses them. I wonder if it may also refer to what I have seen near the beginning of some form sets where one pengs in four diagonal directions.

Thanks for the link Jerry. Very interesting article. The Wu Wenhan article points out that there were 3 forms in the Yang curriculum. Yang Chengfu’s form is a simplified, easy to learn version. The other two were only passed down to a few of Yang Shaohou’s students, one of whom was his teacher. Firs...

Here are some nice examples of Chinese book formatting and highlighting.

http://www.library.metro.tokyo.jp/17/016/17000.html

quote: __________________ I don't personally know a lot of other women who are doing push hands, so I'm also interested to hear about what other women are doing out there and how they seem to approach the process. Do women push hands at all? Do they push with men or only with women? What's encourage...

In the Northern Wu Style tradition there is the term “tuī niú jìn” (push-ox-strength). One person “feeds” the other with a full, brute-strength push that is motionless, steady, yet increases in intensity with the ability of the person on the receiving end to take more. There is no external movement ...

That position makes it easier to protect one's center; hide the center, while looking for the opponent's center.


Jeff

I think that in most push-hands exercises your two hands/arms are ideally always controlling one arm of the opponent.

Bamboo Leaf, I enjoyed the spirit of your comment, “One must be ruthless, and totally honest in their approach to this” and I totally agree that they are completely different training methods. The problem is that it is extremely difficult to force oneself and one’s training partners to swear to abid...

One aspect of varying the angle of the rear foot may be manifest in the ability to 'hua4' as opposed to 'fa1'. Each of Yang Luchan's top 3 students mastered one of his specialties. Wu2 style developed out of one of these top 3 students of Yang Luchan. Wu2 style has the feet parallel. The special ski...

The words refer to two distinct types of mill, yet probably related issues: the push (driven) mill is what I have heard people refer to when speaking of this exercise and I hear the Taiji Circle passage quoted in relation to these exercises, yet the push mill image is not present in the passage. The...

Links to photos of 'tui1mo2', 'push mill'. Exercise I referred to simulates the operation of this. http://www.js.xinhuanet.com/zhuanti/2003-09/29/xin_a203605ff29811d7965d00055de77d1b_3092908.jpg http://www.jinxi.ks.gov.cn/shehui/images/28.gif http://www.nc.hcc.edu.tw/country/BS/image/07/07-07.jpg ht...

Re: The Circle: There are exercises where one does horizontal circles waist level with fist palms up/palms down clockwise/counterclockwise in left and right stances that train what some call, “yánmójìn”, ‘grinding, polishing’ strength as if one were turning a stone mill with ones hands. This trains ...

jìn and tuì also occur in the context of ‘enter’ and ‘exit’ -the circle-

“Exiting the circle is easy, entering the circle is difficult.”

See them in the context of item no. 6 at:

http://www.chh.org.tw/ancient%20books/w ... ss/awj.htm


Jeff