Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Why bother responding to you? Your cup is full. Every forum I write to, their cups are full. So why write in a forum? Yawn. Boring people. But just as an FYI, Aikido teaches versus knife, sword, etc., in the first 6 months. (That is, if you attend the mixed class after a few months even if you're a ...

Versus weapons is not advanced. Not all martial arts schools are like some schools where they spend years teaching you basic forms and push-hands before you actually learn how to defend yourself. I went to a karate school once that said 'Always step out with the left foot'. When I asked why, they sa...

Yikes! If you have to ask this, one must wonder if you really study martial arts at all.

Is all of this taught by the Yang family in Redmond?

Thanks!

No, not really. Guess what I mean is do they teach you how to defend yourself against martial artists from other arts, defending against weapons, how to use weapons like sword, staff, spear (standard Chinese 18 weapons), etc. A lot of these tai chi schools seem to do push-hands for years and years w...

Does the Yang family teach applications of Tai-Chi for fighting purposes?

Or is it just forms and push-hands?