Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

One is for "strike tiger" and other is "bend bow shoot tiger."

what is the significance/history of those close fisted strikes in relation to tiger.

In our country its called plagarism, but the guy Mr. Li from the Beijing Institiute took the long form and made some minor adjustments and now is spreading the 88 form. Its still the same sequence of the long form. His other forms that he made 48 combined form and the 42 combined forms that use yang...

there is a 88 taiji form being taught in china as part of the progression from 24 form to 40 form to 88 form. the 88 form is a altered traditional yang long form. same exact pattern, but moves done absolutely different with some discrepencies. the person who designed this was Li Deyin. http://www.ge...

There have only been a 1 or 2 taiji teachers that I have met along the path that taught taiji stepping forward, back and side ways every class after warm ups, then progess to using your hands. After that they will use brush knee and part horses mane as the forward basic with hand. after that your le...

Thanks, Pat Rice is the nearest center, I am interested in hearing more about it.

matt

I am aware that the Taiji school over there has testing for ranks in Yang taiji and it looks very similar to what some teachers in china have done with ranking for Dragon, Tiger, Eagle. for example- Fu Sheng Yuan received a Silver Dragon for his examiniation by some Beijing people for showing his Ya...

la-na-zha (??)a typical spear basic and kai-he-fa (open-close-emit)taiji spear basic are two techniques of spear/staff, does any one know the difference because they appear almost the same? also some teachers have different ways of saying how to execute la na zha. some have a more horizontal spear t...

so many teachers of so many different levels in america and not very many are recognized or acceptable by the Yang family. In mainland china i understand that one has to be licensed to teach taijiquan, but in america almost anyone who has done a seminar and course for a short time go off to become t...