Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

yslim,

good to see your postings, very good reading.

To practice taiji skill, you should first rely on a good teacher to show the use of these skills. Secondly, you should understand the theory of the great Teacher Chang San Feng and Wang T'sungYueh. You should have no distraction during the practice, otherwise, you will go the wrong way. In addition,...

Yes it was, wow,

I hope its not a sign of age or anything.

I have read some of the books you have mentioned, thanks for the listing. Also thanks for the information provided.

I have often wondered why, why YLC never referred to his art as chen style or some type of related name? My own feeling is that he probably felt what he did was pretty unique and so called his style by other names before becoming known as simple yang style taiji. This question is asked out of curios...

(of course it's trite to say that T'ai Chi is a defensive and reactive martial art that relies on such techniques as sticking, joining and following to neutralise opponents and turn their initial moves against them by these and other techniques. Speed is not necessarily of the essence, provided the ...

(In the high skill fang song would be “empty”. What do they mean empty? After all that hard work, now have to work hard to empty it? ( this is the yin?) Then the yang side of that is, to keep a right frame of mind… ) very nice post captures much of what i feel and practice. [This message has been ed...

mmm, so ya say that you don't quite like CMC form? as to inventing your own short version, i don't quite see the point. you mentioned that you have learned a number of them already. learning and real mastering something is quite different. if you like short just practicing the opening movement to an...

The master's idea of mastery doesn't involve challenging people closed to his instruction. It just doesn't register as important or necessary because he has achieved emptiness, so all the young man's pushing for proof falls into emptiness. They never meet. Or having met, never fight. very well said ...

(Yang Chengfu cited a taiji aphorism that taijiquan is “easy to learn, but difficult to correct.” This may in fact refer to allowing your form to settle into a “template” mode without constantly testing and recalibrating it for authenticity. Could this be why “conscious movement” (zhijue yundong) is...

I look at a spiral as a point in space that defines the rotation of a sphere. In some lines of taiji this may be more apparent then others even to the point of over emphasizing in which case the movement seems like it would defeat the idea behind it, becoming just an external manifestation instead o...

thanks for the kind words. both clips posted are very nice, they also show the idea i was trying to convey. the other in each clip are bounced out by their own idea of preserving a space instead of just flowing with the next change. the teachers can sense, feel, this idea within the others body, bas...

I think the idea that it should take a certain time is not quite correct. Maybe a better way would be to say that it takes as long as it takes based on your own level of development. Key words, slow, even, and constant are what I use and stress, along with low. But its all relative to ones own train...

another idea might be to not have a guard at all. if there is no guard there is nothing to get past.

The way we use and I teach the use of the hook hand is to grab or control the neck either across the chest, left hook hand to right side of neck or left hook hand to left side of neck. In either case the right hand supports the left in this action.

I always thank and respect those who took the time to do this. I think it takes a lot of work to translate something while not injecting your own limitations or insights into it still making it somewhat readable, allowing others to draw what they may from there own experiences. On this site there ar...