Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

I have posted a video of an interview with Grandmaster William C. C. Chen and a demonstration of his Yang short form, taped in 1975. It is a vintage black and white video I took when I studied with him. It is beautiful in its simplicity. This is the first time this video has been made available. Pre...

We would need to see this teacher doing push hands to see the results of his approach. I have pushed with several teachers visiting from China and have found their push hands to be very tense with no Tai-chi principles. And other people have found the same to be true. Obviously anyone can do what th...

It's hard to know what that specific person was doing without experiencing it ourselves. We can, of course, only know about the event from your experience of it. From your description, it sounds like something we do at our school. We learn to use each type of tissue according to its own nature. The ...

I find several points useful to my students in push hands to help them "get over" the yanking appoach to pushing or pulling as you mentioned in your question. 1. There is a tendency to think that you are located in your head because your eyes are in your head. When you tell a student to or...

I studied the William C. C. Chen 60 movement Yang form. To me, the number of movements isn't as important as the proper mechanics of the form. I've noticed that teachers doing the same form each do it differently. Some may be stiff and others fluid. Some may lean forward as in the traditional Yang f...

Just had to say thank you. I just began reading some of the posts. This is such a refreshing oasis from the frustrating forums I have been in. There is really useful information here by intelligent and obviously skilled people. I have discovered a buried treasure!