Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Hi, I would have to say that the Yang system if taught completely should cover all that you want in the system be it martial or simple exercise. Which ever style you choose, I would always advocate learning a long form over a short form. The long forms are complete for the health benefits, etc whera...

Hi UniTaiChi,

CAn you elaborate on what bow/arrow fajin is? I havn't been trained formally in taichi and it isn't a term i've come across. The only fajin i understand is the shaking stuff that has been described.

Regards,
Pete

Hi D, For clarification I am training in erles line of taiji. What system are you training in? You hit the nail on the head. We use enough force to hold our structure. I get the theory that the association use regarding emptying during push hands but I just think that allowing someone to collapse yo...

Hi Audi, it's been a while. I think because my instruction has been more informal than formal I dont really know where to split beginners push hands with intermediate and advanced push hands. When I was taught, we were given principles as and when we were ready so the push hands was constantly impro...

Hi Audi,
Just read an earlier post regarding turning of the body.
We mostly turn using the waist. This allows instant loading of the body to return whatever force has been used.

Regards,
Pete

Hi Audi, We're actually talking similar circumstances but I was referring ti single hand stuff. If your opponent is delivering force with both hands on to your p'eng I would still not allow ky arm to "collapse" rather roll my arm from p'eng into the first part of the lu and so deflect thei...

Hi Audi, The "Wheel" should turn either way depending on where the force is applied. If for example you are defending with a right p'eng and you feel their energy is moving to your left then you should turn towards it allowing you to immediately counter with a right elbow, their force dete...

Hi Audi, just picking up on the point about the arm coming back to the body. The principle we use is the wheel. The body is the axle and the arm is the rim. When the opponents force hits the rim, the axle turns and the force is deflected to one side. When one side of our body turns away, the other s...

Just to carry on from my last post. The details of our circle seem a little different from the way many other teachers teach it. For instance, for us, it is not a big deal if the ward off arm retreats all the way to the abdomen and makes contact. It is, however, a big deal if you close your armpit. ...

Hi Audi, Thanks for the reply. I'll respond to the videos first. Yang juns was interesting. He explains the theory in the same way as we would but we apply the theory in a different way. I'll take p'eng as an example. We use it to deflect/ward off attacks as yang jun explains, however we keep the wr...

Hi Audi, I guess a feel that if I have knowledge that can be used for harm, I have a responsibility to be careful who I share it with. There is no way to have such control over the Internet, where people of any age and any motive can decide to misuse or experiment with things they should leave alone...

Hi Audi, Thanks for your response. You've pretty much ansewred what what i'd asked. Either result is possible, but the latter is probably best not discussed in too much detail over the Internet. Excuse my ignorance, but why not? As I understand it "fajin" or "fajing" merely means...

Hi Louis, Thanks for the response but I think you've read too much into my interest in fajing. I know fajing as I know it and we can agree that we have differing opinions on what we each know as fajing. What I wanted to find out was if the stuff that I have seen on YouTube representative of associat...

Hi Louis, From what you have said I think it would be fair to say that if you hit someone with any intent they should go flying. I have a different question for you. Do you see and train taiji as a martial art? I have encountered many different people during my time practicing taiji but they usually...

Fair point.
If the intent was to do the maximum damage possible.
Im not saying I would do it or you should make a video and post it, just what would you expect to happen.

Regards,
Pete