Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

It is almost common knowledge that apart from the Traditional form, Yang Chengfu taught Taiji Long Fist as well. Yang Shaozhong (Yang Sau Chung, Yang Chengfu's eldest son) had taught the form as well. But it was not taught to just everyone you had to be a close disciple to learn it. What I find inte...

There was a spear style called Yang Family 24 Flower Spear. But this is not the same as the Yang Taiji Family. They are not related at all. In fact this 24-spear predates Yang, Luchan by at least 250 years. General Qi Jiguang published his book "New Book on Ji Xiao." In this book of a mass...

Well, Audi, I do the form quite fine according to everything that I have been taught. I maintain substantial and insubstantial all the time. Perhaps due to my previous martial arts history (mainly Traditional Shaolin and some self-defense stuff) I happen to be able to move at more faster pace while ...

I thought about this one day myself. As I was always told that the long form takes 20 minutes to perform. So I brought my stop watch out with me one morning and tested it. I did the form at a fairly slow pace, didn't rush through it at all, but when I got done, only nine minutes had past. Nine minut...

Hey Louis,

Can you post the ISBN # for that? I work for Barnes and Noble; so, it's much easier to look up any book using the ISBN.

By the way, I thought your translations were well done. It was also nice to see the Chinese version on the opposite page.

Thanks,

Tianren

I have been practicing the Dong version of the Yang style for about 3 yrs now. But lately I have been looking at Yang Zhenduo movements and I see a lot of similarities and differences between the two families. For one, there is a lot more in the Dong repertoire. Fajin is much more apparent in their ...

Are there any translations of YCF's or Yang Zhenji's books into english?