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- Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:30 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Lineage
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6834
Greetings All, Gu Rou Chen makes a sound observation. High level instructors, at least in our system, leave the teaching of beginners to junior instructors as a matter of course. My Sifu simply doesn't teach beginners, and I only very rarely work with them anymore. In regards to the issue Audi raise...
- Fri Aug 06, 2004 11:08 pm
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: Serious Push-Hands Question
- Replies: 104
- Views: 71819
- Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:40 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Lineage
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6834
- Fri Aug 06, 2004 1:25 am
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: PUSH HANDS BEFORE FORM??????
- Replies: 39
- Views: 36454
- Wed Aug 04, 2004 3:51 pm
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: PUSH HANDS BEFORE FORM??????
- Replies: 39
- Views: 36454
- Wed Aug 04, 2004 2:17 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Lineage
- Replies: 19
- Views: 6834
- Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:28 pm
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: Serious Push-Hands Question
- Replies: 104
- Views: 71819
- Sun Aug 01, 2004 4:10 pm
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: Serious Push-Hands Question
- Replies: 104
- Views: 71819
- Sat Jul 24, 2004 3:15 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Older Yang variations and lineages
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17135
Maybe this will help. Modern Wu style and modern Yang style are two different things. There has been enough water under the bridge to make the distinction worthwhile. 100 years ago, when the Yang bros., the Hao family, Wu and Sun were all training, the differences weren't as systematic. Each instruc...
- Fri Jul 23, 2004 2:15 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Older Yang variations and lineages
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17135
- Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:59 am
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: Serious Push-Hands Question
- Replies: 104
- Views: 71819
- Fri Jul 23, 2004 1:07 am
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Yang taijiquan appartus training?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3292
- Thu Jul 22, 2004 5:54 pm
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: Serious Push-Hands Question
- Replies: 104
- Views: 71819
It involves identifying the extreme backward point of the opponent's heel as the centre of a circle. P'eng describes by moving along, either forward or backward, the top part of the circumference of the circle that is centred on the tip of the opponent's heel in this case. You may assign the centre ...
- Wed Jul 21, 2004 2:00 pm
- Forum: Push Hands
- Topic: Serious Push-Hands Question
- Replies: 104
- Views: 71819
Greetings, That sounds like the same demonstration of the first motion of the form that I like to make for new students, very interesting. I have them grab my wrists, I listen to where their centre is and then send some p'eng through my wrists using their heels as the centre of a circle to launch th...
- Mon Jul 19, 2004 9:14 pm
- Forum: Weapons
- Topic: saber scarves
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7942
What I have seen on sabres in old pre-Republican photos and paintings is a sort of lanyard through the handle of some of their sabres. Whatever works, indeed! I have heard of the distraction element spoken of in regard to the fringe of horsehair on a Chinese spear (which fringe is used by Wu stylist...