Yang Family Tai Chi Discussion Board

Dear Friends, Although I know that most of you have already read this in the journal but I think it is quite relavant to the discussion here about Silk Reeling and Yang Style. Master Yang Jun: when we are talking about the Chen style, they use the method they call “silk reeling”. We don’t use the te...

Dear Friends, Recently I found one copy of Master Yang Zhenduo's book, Yang Style Taijiquan, in English and bought it instantly. It has been out of print for many years. (you can find the picture of the book here: http://www.amazon.com/Yang-Style-Taijiquan-Yu-Shenquan/dp/7505404814) Now, I have some...

Dear Rubén, Thanks a lot, as you see in the YouTube link the quality is very low, Master Yang's face is almost unrecognizable. I searched all other video sharing websites including Chinese versions but only found the same video. So it would be great if you would be able to share with us a better ver...

Dear Friends,
I hope everyone would be fine. Does anyone here happen to have a higher quality version of this beautiful performance by Master Yang Jun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYU8ydWdudQ


I would be grateful if you could share it.


Best Regards,
Meghdad

Dear Audi, Thanks for sharing the analogies you used to explain your point to your students. I very much liked the whip analogy: The last analogy I used was that of a whip. I recall Master Yang using this. When you hit something with a whip, you send energy into it with a final flick of the wrist an...

Dear Sean, Thanks for discussing this issue. Sitting meditation is not something separate from Taiji practice. How come we consider Zhan Zhuang as part of the system but not the sitting meditation? Standing meditation and Sitting meditation come from the same root and manifest as two systems with di...

Dear Friends, I was reading one issue of the Association journal and came across a question asked by Mr. Mike Lucero from Master Yang. Since it is about the same topic that we are discussing I thought it might be useful to mention it here: What is the meaning of "use intent rather than force? M...

Dear Bob, Thanks for your further elaboration. I did not say that this phrase you are using does not work, I mentioned it contains wisdom and for sure some people can make a good sense out of it. Therefore I have no problem with it. However I say that it is an interpretation and it interprets a part...

Dear Bob, Thanks for your feedback and elaboration. Personally I think what you explained about "Work smarter, not harder" contains wisdom. However I should add that although one is free to interpret as he or she likes or thinks, it is not possible to write down the principle like this: &q...

Dear Audi, The word "lively" is a decent match for 靈 Ling2, but a poor match for 领 Ling3. Translations using 领 Ling3 will typically be "Emptiness leads..." or "An empty neck...." I should add that this is an issue only for scholars or researchers. I am aware of these te...

Dear Audi, Thanks for your elaboration, Thanks Bob for your detailed opinion about this issue and thank you Extrajoseph for sharing your point of view. I think that we should consider three main issues separately to make this issue clear. 1- Does Cross-Training in general improve our Taiji practice,...

Dear Audi, Thanks for looking at our website and providing us with valuable feedback, we do appreciate. In the course of translating the content of the website the effort has been in a way that the translations into Persian would be as close as possible to the meaning of the original Chinese. For in...

Dear my Friends and Masters, Today I read an article entitled " Cross-Training ", written by Dr. Yang Yang in their center's newsletter, June 2013 issue. The main idea of this article is for me a long-standing question about Taijiquan training, specially traditional Taijiquan, and that is ...

Hello Audi and Louis, Thanks for your interesting discussion here. Dear Louis, When translating "野马分鬃" I also faced the same situation because of two reasons: 1- Mr. Brennan translates this as: "Wild Horse Parts Its Mane", so it is the horse itself that causes the parting of its ...

Dear Audi, I would like to thank you for generously sharing your knowledge and experience. I appreciate and I'm grateful. Regarding the exercise you mentioned, I've been practicing Zhan Zhuang postures regularly, specially Wuji, Holding the Belly and Hugging the tree. I'm not professional though, th...