Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

"I'd agree that there are differences between Wu style and Yang style. Ime, I've seen as many differences among Yang *and* Wu branches... But, that's off the point." It is a good place off of the point, however, one that throws some light on our discussion. The perspective that every high ...

Steve, Cheers! For the 5 distinct forms of Play Guitar of the 6 in our form (counting the entire motion from the time the previous form is held to end and the next is held to begin) that I mentioned; there are different discrete applications for each, and then many, many different appications inside...

Audi, In the contemporary Wu style 108 posture routine there are 6 instances of "Play Guitar." Form numbers 3, 10, 59, 61, 63 & 66. While most of them they end up in the same position, they all , except 61 & 63 which are identical, and 10 which has the end position near the beginni...

Psalchemist,

You're welcome. I'm glad you're enjoying it.

It is nice to know there are others in the world who read reference works for entertainment...

Regards,
-P.

DavidJ, T'ai Chi Ch'uan training is (or should be) predictable for those who have gone through it. Its application, however, in my experience relies on the creativity of the practitioner. Spontaneity can be an aspect of creativity, but as a descriptor in itself of an attribute it is too neutral. Spo...

Louis, Thank you. I did some looking, and the most prevalent examples of complementary opposites that I found in the earliest strata of the Chou I were terms like: Ming2 and Hui4 for light and dark, Tian1 and Di4 for heaven and earth, and of course, Qian2 and Kun1 for the first two hexagrams. There ...

Louis & Co., Cheers, very informative. Do you know what the Chinese words are that denote empty and full in the I Ching? I'm thinking that even if they literally say "light and dark" or "moving and still" they are still an early citation of the same theories. Best Regards, -P.

Louis,

Is that the same "jia" as the "jia" that means family or sect?

Just Curious,
-P.

Greetings all, FWIW, I wasn't under the impression that Wushuer said a practitioner was someone merely paid to teach, either. Louis, No, I haven't found anything out about the photos, as my peripatetic source (whom I will affectionately, if anonymously, refer to as "old timer") hasn't visi...

In the Hong Kong Wu style, at least, a practitioner is someone who can actually demonstrate proper P'eng, Lu, Chi, An, Ts'ai, Lieh, Tsou and Kao and their appropriate combinations in any appropriate direction when under attack, effortlessly and consistently. Simply put, if you tense up or stress out...

Louis, Wushuer, & Co., I have a good bit of experience with the Wu Chien-ch'uan form, and if it is done properly you are never double weighted. Being double weighted is a mistake, and contrary to T'ai Chi principle of the voluntary separation of Yin and Yang, and therefore impossible in real TCC...

Since Fu had a different body than his teacher, his form would have been a little bit different than YCF's, as no two people can ever have an identical form. It is like everyone has their own handwriting. You can write the same words, which say the same things, but they will always look justa little...

Greetings all, W., As far as I am willing to get into it, my school is a branch of the Hong Kong headquarters. We visit HK regularly, as well as being lucky enough to host instructors from there. Sifu Wu Kuang-yu is our most frequent guest instructor. Louis, I have to express my appreciation for you...

Michael, I'm going to have to agree that the previous debate may have been a waste of time, at least at one level. I could not have proved any of my points to Ron, at least not here. He's probably not a bad guy, he just doesn't believe that there are any good guys in the world. I don't have much hop...

Ron, Well met! I'm sorry that you have a life goal that dictates that should have such an interest in fomenting controversy where none exists, but it takes all kinds of people. There are some of us out here still who believe in dignity and working on ourselves, and in my school at least, without tha...