Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Audi, I was watching a clip of Fu Zhongwen's son doing power training for the Yang style form. All he did was the Brush Knee Step and Repulse Monkey. Traditional training helps also. Just practicing one posture at a time over and over again. I do the same thing myself whenever there is barely room t...

Sorry for the mix up above I mentioned that there are 9 main joints in the human body and listed 10. The nine again are the ankles, knees, hips (kua), 3 points in the back, the wrists, elbows, and shoulders. As for the 3 points in the vertabrate: I think they are the tailbone, in between the shoulde...

Sung means to relax yet be supple and alive. When you're sung everything is open and chi is flowing naturally throughout. In every position in tai chi chuan form, the practioner should be sung, then you'd feel a tingling at the top of your head. To be sung also means no joint in your body is locked....

I practice Wu style tai chi chuan and I'm very interested in the Yang Small Circle set that Yang Pan-hou or Yang Luchan created. Is it still practiced by the Yang family? How many disciples (not students) did Yang Pan-hou have? How true is the account that Ma Yueh-liang's fast set (also known as Wu ...