Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi There!

Anyone interested in short and long form Yang Tai Chi Chuan in the UK - feel free to contact me.


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Thank you.

Thank you Chris.

Do you think that many people misunderstand the whole concept? Too external or forceful - as if they feel that they have to do something - or nothing is happening?

I have a number of students who have been practicing Tai Chi for many years, but who still find themselves 'pushing' or 'pulling' unnecessarily in push-hands. What do others think?

I know it is a tricky practice - and so it should be.

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Very interesting discussion. I know nothing about the translations mentioned above. With regards footing, many say that the feet should become as sensitive to the ground, as the hands are to the opponent in pushing hands, or the mind is/becomes to the environment. When the weight drops, qi rises, it...

Practicing the form on the other-side is an excellent co-ordinating exercise.

What an interesting thread - thank you all! So there's two ways of viewing something; 1) Objective. 2) Subjective. The hop is quite common as a form of uprooting. Fighting the uprooting would be against the principles of taijiquan, of course, so the practitioner learns to ride the waves of energy. I...

Hi All! The copy that I have, is in Chinese. The pictures of each posture are hand drawn and very Longfist looking. Interestingly, Longfist is/was practiced by the Chen and the Yang families. What is interesting about Chinese clan names is that if they are written the sameway, then regardless of tim...

Hi All! Fa jing is very interesting, isn't it? Apologies for any misunderstandings, but my intention is to highlight and compare two distinctive ways of generating fa jing - and not to advocate one style over another. A style's effectiveness depends upon two things; 1) The student. 2) The teacher. A...

Interesting, thanks. If Wu is any better (and I think it depends upon the instructor and the student) it is because it is a development of a trend started by Yang Luchan. However, I am not sure it is, purely from an experiencial perspective. What many fail to realise (and many Yang instructors fail ...

To me, part of Yang Luchan's genius is the development of the forward and back sway, where the whole of the foot under surface is used in the transition from one posture to the next, making full use of the entire foot as it touches the ground. This leads to a complete feeling of the ground we stand ...

Fa Jing is the ability to emit qi or energy through any and all parts of the body. The bodyweight, once dropped into the floor is the key. The resultant force, often referred to as combat qi, is then moved about the inside of the body, via will-power and postural adjustment. It is not dependent upon...

Traditionally speaking, many schools of Chinese martial arts were made up of an external and internal element. The styles were never mixed in the sense that they merged, on the contrary; young immature students tended to be full of undirected energy which was placed into robust external training - w...

Hi All! As far as I understand the situation, 'neutralising' can mean simply to defuse via absorbtion; in its most simplistic form. However, not all energy can be defused in this manner, such energy requires deflection AND redirection. Thus adding attributes to the neutralisation process. This is th...

Hitting - or allowing force through the body as a strike, requires jing, this is what external systems teach. Where the difference lies, is in how the power transmitted is generated. Taiji principles, once acquired fully can be used in any position or any situation - until then, adherence to set pri...