Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

[This message has been edited by Yury Snisarenko (edited 04-03-2005).]

[This message has been edited by Yury Snisarenko (edited 04-03-2005).]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bamboo leaf: <B>With in the yang style history we can also see wide variations in what family members taught at different times accordin...

Greetings to All, I agree with Anderzander. Sometimes even within the boundaries of the one style we may see two sub-styles that seem different as heaven and earth. But I think that this difference, actually, is mostly exterior. Unfortunately without deep knowledge of the principles it's impossible ...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Marc Heyvaert: <B>Fang song can be explained with the iron and steel analogy. Raw iron is processed under high temperature melting and o...

"a movie made in Italy" :-)))) "Zoom, zoom, zoom…." :-) I can't stop laughing… David, I share Marc's comment on "spaghetti type" completely. Sometimes I couldn't displace my teacher's hand when he was standing in certain taiji posture with song in his body. Marc, I am l...

Greetings to All, Louis, thank you for the clarification. You reminded me that correct translation plays crucial role in the understanding of masters' words. The task of translating taiji quan language/terms was always quite difficult but it was especially hard in the beginning of the Tai Chi histor...

Greetings to everyone, DPasek, I agree with you on most of your post and must say that you explained some missing points in the discussed topic. I would only more emphasize the importance of the slow-twitch muscles and tendons relationship, the fact of their connection. I think that your ball analog...

Greetings to everyone. Audi, thank you for the very interesting post. I would like to clarify my last post. When I talked about jie jin actually I meant "jie1" that means "to extend", "to connect" and "to receive". There is a phrase in taiji theory "jie j...

Greetings to everyone, Audi, I didn't elaborate the rhythms idea yet to that extent as you did; I only noticed one basic rhythm in the tuishou of the four main directions: two short beats in the position when the weight is on the back leg (the waist slightly turns on one beat to the left, then on th...

Greetings All. Stephen, You said about the horizontal and vertical circles. This is close to what I tried to express in my last post. I don't doubt that the vertical circle is an effective way to deal with the opponent's attack but it may turn up quite uneasy thing for the beginner. The cause is tha...

Greetings All. Kalamondin, Jerry, BL Bamenwubu, Marc, I found your comments very interesting and useful. Thank you for sharing your ideas. I would like to add that IMO there are two basic kinds of tuishou (pushing hands) strategies. The one is conventionally "CMC type" – the legs are posit...

Greetings All, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by bamboo leaf: Stop dealing with their body and work with their mind... </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I think this is a quite ad...

Hi Kal, To watch the clip select, copy and paste the link in any downloading software or in IE. The cause of the problem is the blank in the URL. Thank you for the link to the article about jins. There are not many sources with the explanation about different jins. I've heard about S. Olson book but...

Hi Kal, Sounds like you apply receiving_immediately_issuing power ( jie jin with fa jin ). I think it's more advanced jin than yielding-and-pushing when doing a large circle (long jin) or even a small circle (short jin). It relies rather on the principle (Li) than on mechanics. However as you mentio...

Greetings All, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Michael: <B> But hey, we are all different, and the "form" has to adjust to us to a large degree.</B></font><HR...